We typically have storm static from September till April, but winter
thunderstorms are possible as well. In addition, there is always Tropical noise
that may propagate in, when there are otherwise no thunderstorms apparent
across all of Australia.
I’m still working a handful of European
Last Wednesday night QRN on my TX antenna was fluctuating between -100 dBm
and -80 dBm (as shown on the Flex 6700 + Maestro waterfall) and S9 to
S9+10dB on the S meter. I was on the band and could copy only a few signals,
and only when the noise dropped to -100 dBm. OK1CF was the only solid DX
Hi Roger
That is a very important question and the answer may surprise a lot of folks
on Topband. Kay KE4PT worked several years on Motorola simulation RF in
hollow bodies for pagers and handheld close to the human body
Kai Siwiak KE4PT, QEX Editor. Kay prepared this presentation for our local
On 4/3/2021 11:33 AM, jcr...@mun.ca wrote:
On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Eric NO3M wrote:
Photo 100_0974.jpg in your dropbox is that a younger W1BB sitting
in front of a RME-69 receiver with mic in hand?
And just below to the left, E. Armstrong?
Bob Merriam told me that the two pictures on
I know a lot of you guys in North America are complaining that you are
already getting a lot of QRN on the band, so aren't coming on . . .
I guess we're pretty lucky here in Britain, as we only usually get
thunderstorms in August . . . and even then, only for a handful of nights,
so we don't
There always seem to be a lot of discussions on here about Antennas . . . so
thought I'd start a new one.
I've never seen any definitive figures for it . . . but I've always felt
that any antenna with lots of trees around - especially Verticals, where the
current maximum is near the ground - is
On Sat, 3 Apr 2021, Eric NO3M wrote:
Photo 100_0974.jpg in your dropbox is that a younger W1BB sitting in
front of a RME-69 receiver with mic in hand?
And just below to the left, E. Armstrong?
73
Joe VO1NA
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Photo 100_0974.jpg in your dropbox is that a younger W1BB sitting in
front of a RME-69 receiver with mic in hand?
On 4/2/21 12:34 PM, Augie "Gus" Hansen wrote:
David J Ring Jr of the Radio-Officers Facebook page shares some
stories of Stew Perry who was also a Radio officer as well as
