Re: Topband: Mother of all ferrite common-mode coaxial chokes

2012-07-13 Thread Gedking
In a message dated 7/12/2012 11:16:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tsho...@wmata.com writes: http://www.yccc.org/Articles/W1HIS/CommonModeChokesW1HIS2006Apr06.pdf ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK

Re: Topband: Radio wave Propagation, knife edging, ETC

2012-05-21 Thread Gedking
n a message dated 5/20/2012 1:03:49 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, k...@myfairpoint.net writes: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Radio-Wave+Propagation When I was in the Signal Corp, Our NCOIC and a ham friend, for an experiment, used Knife edge propagation to link our receive site

Topband: LOTW

2012-02-17 Thread Gedking
It's simple why some don't use LOTH it's called $ $ $ $ ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK

Re: Topband: Amazing Video of an extremely large circular array

2012-02-11 Thread Gedking
I wish I had taken Pics of our Rhombic Antenna farm at Camp Darby near Livorno (Leghorn) Italia At the Xmtr site we had Rhombic ant. in every direction 360 ft on a side wit three wires on each leg the dissipation line was four 1/8" nichrome wires. The rcvr site had smaller Rhombic's two f

Re: Topband: My First DX

2012-01-21 Thread Gedking
I used the 80 Mtr ant the same way when I was a Novice and used a Central Electronics 20A on Xtal control. My old Elmer Earl W8CTY told me about it. It worked great. ED K8OT In a message dated 1/21/2012 9:50:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, chetmo...@cox.net writes: Hey Jerry, Sorry to h

Re: Topband: Operations...

2011-12-23 Thread Gedking
There is nothing more aggravating than listening to somebody calling cq over and over and never listening. so you can give them a call. you give them a couple of dits to try and get them to listen and they just keep on calling GR. ED that grumpy ol fart K8OT In a message dated 1

Topband: QRP'ers

2011-12-12 Thread Gedking
Why do all these people give a rip if someone gets satisfaction working somebody a long distance with low power I have a friend who enjoys working QRP But he is on the east coast and I am envious I can't. I takes skill and timing getting a QRP signal over the top of those who think they need

Re: Topband: slow speed contester

2011-11-24 Thread Gedking
Great reply Rick I fondly remember my novice days at 6-7 wpm in my first contest. I had a XTal as close to the bottem of the 15 Mtr. novice band I dared to go and my slow CQ was answered by a lot of contest stations. and my speed slowly began to pick up. I worked most of the major contests m

Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 107, Issue 28

2011-11-20 Thread Gedking
Some people would rather play with antennas than get on the air, if that's their thing go for it. ME I would rather get on the air and work stations. I just let my auto tuner make the rig happy losses on 160 are not that high. But then I remember a time when I needed a station on 24 Mhz so I ma

Re: Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After)

2011-02-01 Thread Gedking
YUP those chair sitters I got on for while. I thought I would pass out a few points so I was just S&P with 100 wts. because I have a job here at home now. and can't put in a lot of hours. I ran across some of them, I called that were calling CQ over and over and didn't answer my call even t