Topband: Spot: N5J 1828.5 up 1

2024-08-10 Thread Mike Fatchett W0MU
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Re: Topband: N5J Live Stream?

2024-08-10 Thread Michael Tope
Hi George, Is this noise you are hearing impulse noise from the generator ignition or switching hash from the inverter electronics? If it is ignition noise, shielding the spark plug wire fixed the problem for me: http://www.dellroy.com/W4EF's-Ham-Radio-Page/EU2000i/Ignition.htm For inverter

Re: Topband: N5J Live Stream?

2024-08-10 Thread Wes Stewart via Topband
George, I'm not being critical, just curious, I don't have a lot of experience, but I've used my EU2000 for a couple of Field Days and from a lot of RV sites and have never even tried to ground the thing.  I park it 50-75 feet away, run an extension cord to the equipment and have at it. Of cour

Re: Topband: N5J Live Stream?

2024-08-10 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/10/2024 12:00 PM, GEORGE WALLNER wrote: Using a single #31 2" core, how many turns of RG-6 do you think will give decent choking effect? (I know, it depends on the GND and other loading factors.) TKS for all the ferrite cores! Will let you know if we need more! Understand about difficult

Re: Topband: N5J Live Stream?

2024-08-10 Thread GEORGE WALLNER
Jim, We are using all of the cores you have given me. They help, but it is hard to get a good ground at the top-end of the beach where the sand is very dry and rocks prevent rods getting driven deep enough to reach moist ground. Yesterday, a bit desperate, ran a 70 foot long GND wire to water,

Re: Topband: Dedication

2024-08-10 Thread Wes
Thanks George, it worked out.  QSO @0821Z through horrendous RFI (S9+)  An hour later he was much stronger (Q5) I considered, but refrained from making an insurance QSO. Wes  N7WS On 8/9/2024 4:29 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 8/9/2024 3:37 PM, Wes Stewart via Topband wrote: Only mad dogs and Engl

Re: Topband: N5J

2024-08-10 Thread GEORGE WALLNER
We will get around to FT8 on 160 soon. TKS for the Q-s. George On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 15:22:13 -0700 Raymond Benny wrote: George, Tnx for the 160m QSO. Do not need Jarvis on other bands with N6VR. I do need Jarvis Is. on 160m and other bands, with W7YA on FT8. I have worked three bands so far.

Re: Topband: N5J Live Stream?

2024-08-10 Thread GEORGE WALLNER
Jim, It is hard for me to come on TB at 0600 as on most days as we go to the island late afternoon to avoid the heat while we work on things. (Yesterday we rearranged our filters to reduce interference.) By the time we get back it is dark and often past 0600. Will keep on trying to come on just

Re: Topband: N5J

2024-08-10 Thread EUGENE GABRY via Topband
George, Heard you this morning (08/10/24) about 45 minutes before local sunrise (10:15 to ~10:45UTC) for about 30 minutes. Noise floor here was running S3-S5 and you were right in that noise floor most of the time. Only a TX antenna, no RX antenna. Although some would say my TX antenna is more o