The question now is how to tell the wife we'll go to valentines dinner
tomorrow. Any advice?
Dino - KX6D
From: Topband on behalf of
Robert Urban
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2023 3:33:18 PM
To: Topband reflector
Subject: Topband: "Tower Maintenance for Radio Am
N6BT has reported that modeling software doesn't get verticals right. He
concluded this after using a drone to test antennas in the real world. Modeling
software does a great job on horizontal antennas, but verticals, not so much.
Dino - KX6D
-Original Message-
Stan, I have it on good a
A dipole we've used successfully at Field Day is actually a 40-meter, 2 element
wire beam hanging from an 18' boom.
The driven element is a simple dipole fed with ladder line down to a remote
tuner (in our case, a classic Johnson KW Matchbox). The ladder line is just
long enough to reach the gr
Excellent advice! I'll take the 7300 and a wire to have a listen. I should have
thought of it.
The property is long and narrow, broadside to east and west.
Dino - KX6D
From: Topband on behalf of
Charlie
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 11:49:31 AM
To: topband@cont
Sorry, Tim's article was August 1994.
Dino - KX6D
From: Topband on behalf of Dino
Darling
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 10:33:28 AM
To: Stan Stockton ; w...@w5zn.org
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: What antenna would you build?
Thanks
From: Stan Stockton
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:55:41 AM
To: w...@w5zn.org
Cc: Dino Darling ; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: What antenna would you build?
Different people have differing views on the definition of a serious antenna.
An 8 circle with 8 directions of BSEF ve
If you may and you are willing to indulge me; if you were about to buy 5-acres
with no neighbors or restrictions and wanted to erect a serious 160M antenna
system, what would you build and why? We can pass on the Radio Arcala
discussion; nobody's that cool.
A loaded 4-square? 1/4 wave stick (or
They weren't slow to screw up the Field Day rules two years in a row. :-)
Subject: Re: Topband: Great Engineering by AA7JV...
What will the ARRL think of this? They are slow to change with the times.
W0MU
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