Thanks for coming back to me, Tom. The only reason I knew the band was
open is that I was sitting on 1821.0 listening for S01WS who had been
spotted there. Apparently he was gone because, Eric NO3M, asked if the
frequency was in use and then started calling CQ. I was surprised to
hear HB9CAT
Sure,
I mounted the bottom of the pole onto a 6’ piece of 3” PVC Pipe buried 3’ into
the ground, I then extended the first two (or was it three) sections of the
pole and attached it to the Eave of the house.
At that point I went onto the roof and extended the pole one section at a time
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On 12/15/2019 6:52 PM, Chortek, Robert L. wrote:
Easy!
Get a 60’ Spiderbeam Fibeeglaas pole. Run a wire up the side and top load it
with two 44’ wires running out at 45 degrees or less.
Mine was so easy to install I was able to it alone with any trouble at all in a
few hours.
Bob
Good for you. My sentiments are on my QRZ page.
Wes N7WS
On 12/15/2019 6:36 PM, thoyer via Topband wrote:
All of my contacts for DXCC have been and will be from my property and I'd
like to keep it that way (CW only also)
W3TA
-Original Message-
From: Topband
So you suggest giving up 10 feet of a 45 foot vertical in order to raise the
radials? Doesn't make sense to me.
With a 45' tower I supported an inverted-V and worked my first 70+ countries on
160 from the depths of southern AZ.
Wes N7WS
On 12/15/2019 7:22 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Do the
I meant 45 degrees or more
Bob
Robert L. Chortek
> On Dec 15, 2019, at 6:52 PM, Chortek, Robert L.
> wrote:
>
> Easy!
>
> Get a 60’ Spiderbeam Fibeeglaas pole. Run a wire up the side and top load it
> with two 44’ wires running out at 45 degrees or less.
>
> Use an isolation
Easy!
Get a 60’ Spiderbeam Fibeeglaas pole. Run a wire up the side and top load it
with two 44’ wires running out at 45 degrees or less.
Use an isolation transformer at the base and
Run it against 8-12 1/8 wave elevated radials. Match with a 32/50 Ohm UnUn.
Mine was so easy to install I
2nd mike's point about the elevated radials if you have the room, and I
underscore his point about not connecting the above gnd radials to earth
ground and the need for a beefy common mode choke
Dave
NR1DX
On 12/15/2019 9:22 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Do the inverted-L, but use at least two
Do the inverted-L, but use at least two 10' high 1/4 wave radials.
Do NOT use an RF ground rod, or any radials on or near the earth. Just
connect the coax shield to the junction of the radials and any remote
tuner. At that point a good choke balun is necessary.
Leaving out the choke or grounding
All of my contacts for DXCC have been and will be from my property and I'd
like to keep it that way (CW only also)
W3TA
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of W0MU Mike
Fatchett
Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2019 8:12 PM
To:
or you could use a remote.
W0MU
On 12/15/2019 6:04 PM, thoyer via Topband wrote:
With only 9 more to go for DXCC on 160 and all of the recent posts about how
good the band has been recently "best in years) I find myself with no
antenna for the low bands and cringing after each post on how
With only 9 more to go for DXCC on 160 and all of the recent posts about how
good the band has been recently "best in years) I find myself with no
antenna for the low bands and cringing after each post on how good the band
has been.
I had some construction done in the yard (started in Sept)
>>One good thing about this is that my TV time has gone to almost zero...
Are TVs still available? All I have is a 50" Netflix display. The family
says it should also 'receive' Amazon Prime. LOL
>>"When we were young, we tried to sneak out of the house to go to a
party. These days, we try
Terry - this should help you.
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
Tree
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 8:10 PM terry burge wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> Went back into my emails to pickup out some names of people I know are on
> the list just to ask. I have not seen any topband group
Mark,
I hear you. As an engineer I basically worked a sedentary office job during the
day and operated at night. When I retired I figured I would have more time but
I make it a point of being active. My wife and I take a hike very day. When out
of the house I try to operate portable therefore
I agree with you, Mike. It would be interesting to survey the average age of
our top-band subscribers (Tree, was this done already and I missed it?)
I started on top band in 2007, and really started chasing DX in 2009-2010
season (it was a good one!)
But that was 10 years ago. Between
Interesting. After reading that Spaceweather article, I had my radiation
detector app running on my tablet two days ago, and there was no doubt that
it was picking up significantly more counts per minute than I've ever seen!
However, the background count last night had dropped to almost normal,
I attribute the decline in participation to the raising noise floor and the
aging population of ham radio operators.
I been operating 160 since I moved to the present location form a city lot in
1998 and have noticed the noise level constantly raising. I've been successful
in noise sources in
Hi to everyone,
>From ionization rates in the scientific literature, galactic cosmic rays
(GCRs) result in more electrons down low in the ionosphere (from
collisional ionization) - where ionospheric absorption occurs. So one would
think that the more cosmic rays, the more absorption - which is
On Dec 15, 2019, at 3:32 AM, Bill Tippett wrote:
>
> ”... the great conditions of 2009 were
> actually SLIGHTLY AFTER the cycle 24 minimum in December 2008. If the new
> minimum is as forecast in April 2020, it could be that the best conditions
> will be slightly past that minimum (i.e. during
From: https://www.cq160.com/scores.htm
The 20 all time highest CQ160CW scores for USA::
YearInstances (ranks)
2018: 1 (#9)
2017: 1 (#20)
2013: 1 (#18)
2011: 4 (#5, 8, 11, 15)
2010: 3 (#3, 6, 10)
2009: 10 (#1, 2, 4, 7, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19)
2009 + 11 year cycle = 2020. However the
Hello to all
Miriam (VY2NA) and (VY2ZM) Jeff gave us a wonderful Christmas present at our
160m station in Japan.
On December 6th, 0800z, VY2NA / VE2 started to record at 1840 and qso was
established at 0844z. It is the zone 2 qso that I have dreamed of since 160
m. It was qso that I had been
Hello to all
Miriam (VY2NA) and (VY2ZM) Jeff gave us a wonderful Christmas present at our
160m station in Japan.
On December 6th, 0800z, VY2NA / VE2 started to record at 1840 and qso was
established at 0844z. It is the zone 2 qso that I have dreamed of since 160
m. It was qso that I had been
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Yes, agree with Tom. I came on late but conditions were excellent. Unusual to
hear West Coast so strong here. Things are improving.
Richard
G3OQT
> On 15 Dec 2019, at 08:54, Tom Boucher wrote:
>
> It's nice to hear the band back in good shape again after a few years. Big
> CW signal from W4EF
It's nice to hear the band back in good shape again after a few years. Big
CW signal from W4EF in CA this morning along with ZL3IX, also a string of
JAs/HL earlier this week.
Let's keep the 160 CW activity up!
73,
Tom G3OLB
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