Re: Topband: ARRL CW Contest

Hi guy’s, Right, we must adapt the cw speed to the Band conditions. Personnaly, I was at a speed of 26, and sometimes activing my bencher key... Faster, around 36, is a non sense on top band. 73 Jean-Paul F6FYA en direct depuis son iPad. > Le 17 févr. 2020 à 19:10, Artek Manuals a écrit

Re: Topband: ARRL CW Test - 160m

It's us little pistols who make up a good deal of your scores I expect. Not that I'm such a little one but this season I have not even been able to get my inv 'L to work right. Put in power and SWR goes thru the roof? Go Figure. Planning on seting up a K2AV FCP but it won't be by next weeken

Topband: ARRL CW Test - 160m

Even us little pistols can have loads of fun. I managed to work 41 DX stns with 35 countries. Seventeen stns were in EU & 17 in the Carib. Rest in Cent. Am. and KH6. I was hearing strong EU stns just before our sunset, but my first EU QSO was around 0100Z on Fri and 0Z on Sat night. The stronge

Re: Topband: ARRL CW Contest

Hi Dave, There were several speed demons who were shooting themselves in the foot with endless high speed CQs. Why would anyone send hundreds -- even thousands -- of unanswered high speed CQs on topband when slowing their speed to 26-30 WPM (or even lower) will only improve their topband res

Re: Topband: ARRL CW Contest

NR1DX: Equipment: 1400W + 60' (20M) high  "T" with 3 elevated radials + Bevs & BOGs Location: Near Tampa Florida Here in Florida, except for Africa and the Carib, we typically do not enjoy the same good condx to EU that you fellows up north get the price we pay for not having to use our ampli

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk, I use the 26m Spiderbeam pole for almost 6 years, and it survived every storm until now (in an exposed area).  As far I can say the quality of pole, wires (they are basically the same on the 18m pole) and ropes etc is very good. Yes, almost "only" wire, but it ads up for kevlar ropes, mono

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk Don't spend 139 Euro on a piece of wire! For DXpeditions (ZL7G, ZC4A, TX6G, etc, etc) we use an 18m Spiderpole with T loading. But we take out the top section (maybe the top two, I forget) because they are not strong enough. At the base, a simple matching network, costing a few Euros (easily

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Henk, I am using project described by DJ0IP here: https://www.dj0ip.de/vertical-antennas/160-80m-on-18m-pole/ works very well, just please remember its very narrow... pon., 17 lut 2020 o 13:31 Henk Remijn PA5KT via Topband < topband@contesting.com> napisał(a): > Hi, > > I am looking for experi

Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Hi Henk - we are using an 18 meter Spiderpole at ET3AA. It supports a wire, using a Unadilla 80 meter trap (no longer in production), so that it works on both 80 and 160 meters. I found while using those traps at XW4ZW, that they cannot handle more than 900 - 1000 watts. That is not an issue in E

Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole?

Hi, I am looking for experiences with the toploaded vertical with a 18m Spiderbeam pole. As described on the Spiderbeam website: <>

Re: Topband: ARRL CW Contest

Hello Roger, Yesterday night I heard you when you QSO AB8UL. Your receiving system works well, signals we re confortable but not too strong. I called you at the end, but you were gone. During all contest top band was not so quiet in the central west part of France, even on beverage. But, acce