Hi all,
I agree with Roger because - if you take a glance at the "logged in list" -
it looks like quite a few NA stations are active. You can choose to set "I
am away" to make the picture more clear.
IMHO
Len SM7BIC
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Hi Bruce et al,
Same even down in the southern part of Sweden. No prop to NA and ZL but
Africa is ok.
73 all
Len SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För K1FZ-Bruce
Skickat: den 8 september 2017 10:31
Till: Topband
Ämne: Topband: Aurora
Hi gentlemen,
Way back in time - 1982 - I had my first QSO with Mike which actually was the
first QSO on 160 between SM and VK.
Still recall his pounding signals. Since then we had a lot of QSO:s , always
with good signals. RIP Mike!
Len SM7BIC
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Yes - almost but:
You have to complete your QSO on yourself
You are not obliged to use any PC or any other supports. If you do, then it
would not be a valid 100% QSO between two OPS.
That is my 10 USD worth
Len¨
SM7BIC
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Well stated JC!!
I fully agree.
The local QRM is getting worse each year with all those LED:s and other ,
mostly tiny things radiating several hundreds meters. Only two ways to go:1
Identify the QRM source and get rid of it, 2: Try to improve your RX
antennas.
To me, a 160 QSO is between 2 OPS sitt
I do not agree with you Pedro. More is not always better. Use no more than you
need. JT65 allows more noise than does CW, thus one doesn’t need as much power.
73
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För CT1EKD
Skickat: den 17 mars 2017
Hi all,
There are some good, fixed EU caps that were used in coast to ship radio
transmitters.
One of the outstanding onses were manufactured by "Rosenthal", also famous
for the production of extremely high Q porcelain used in dishes.
Otherwise I would follow the advice from Guy.
73
Len
SM7BIC
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Hi guys
Last night I spent some time calling CQ DX on 1821.5. Just a few weak qrp
Eu:s showed up. Then 9M2AX came on with a nice signal thru the QRN. That was
it. LU8 xx was trying to hear Ross but I believe they did not make it.
QRN all over EU makes the band sound dead.
Cu 73
Len SM7BIC
-Urs
Please listen for us up in N EU even if there is little common darkness
between us and US
GL
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Tree
Skickat: den 9 juni 2016 15:57
Till: 160 ; cq-cont...@contesting.com
Ämne: Topband: Summer Stew Pe
Hello guys, yes, in a way Paul, VS6DO is back on track,
I just got a long letter from his daughter Sthephanie seeking information
enough to make it possible to create a good of social and other contact that
Paul ha during his long stay in HongKong
Please send what you have, anecdots, photos and fri
Hi Rick et al,
Just reminds me of 3Y0X from Peter 1 Island in 2006.
They used a 3 el yagi laying on the ice and had a VFB sig on 160 ...but
calculations were made before they went to this distant QTH.
Nice memory!
73
SM7BIC Len
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Hi Bob, I always enjoy ur sigs from w US.
Please keep the station up and running.
Your setup is quite different from the ones in EU renting time in a n US
TX/RX station, running their full home callsign thus trying to improve their
own DXCC standiings.
Cu Bob
Len
SM7BIC
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Tree et al,
So far I have stayed in the background reading all those US based comments.
>From an overall perspective- and maybe from a DXCC perspective -I would
like to add the following:
1
I do agree that a Remote RX site, just like ZL3IX, VO1HP and many more are
using is positive for 160 m opera
Felipe, tks nice story. Only got you on 80...
Hope better luck next time!
73
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Kees Nijdam
Skickat: den 16 februari 2015 16:02
Till: PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia; Dick Grolleman
Kopia: TopBand
Ämne: Re: T
Just a few comments in case you guys gone to sleep!
The other day Tree, N6TR/7 said he had to QRT to fix some changes to his
remote control of his base station. Hope you managed Tree and I understand
you need it during all BSNS travel flights, so far so good.
If, and when, I would ever drea
GM/GE all,
I recall VP6DX at Ducie Island was using two ways to fight dQRM; slightly
moving TXQRG up/dwn which brought difficulties to the jammers to follow; QSX
up 4 and then dwn 5 for example. Those who did not copy could hardly call at
the right QRG.
I spent a lot of time listening and I found t
Hi Merv and all,
According to their WEB site the noise problems have now been taken care of.
They had a very good run both on 80 and 160 last night. In Europe we do have
problems with deliberate QRM on 80 and 40, much less on 160. I must say the
Ops are doing a very good job. Most EU stations obey
Mike et al, no answer to your open Q but I just scanned the band yday and I
did work quite a few US stations being not very loud but ...they wera
listening in all directions at the same time. Hope to catch u as well.
73
Len
SM7BIC
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Hi Tom et al
Just wanna add the following:
Except for a 1/4 lambda vertical at the beach a la skirt with a bandwidth
from 1.7 to 8 MHz the best antenna ever used on 80 was a semivertical 2x40 m
hanging from 90 down to 25 m. That antenna was only used for SSB 80, low
noise, transmitting very well
Interesting. I have tried verticals, slopers, inverted V's and other 80
meter antennas on or near my 160 meter tower with little success.
The impedance of any such antenna seems to be severely altered by the nearby
tower. I suspect it depends on the electrical length of the tower. Mine is
cl
Hi Herb and all,
That is true - if you are not going for a vertically polarized Rhombic where
"only" the center support structures need to be tall. However that calls for
a very good ground system, not only below the antenna but several
wavelengths away. A typical seaside antenna?
73
Len SM7BIC
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Paul,
If I were you I would ground both towers and put them 1/4 wavelength apart
on 160. Grounded towers are easily fed by using a curtain or at least a few
wires dropped from the top, distance to towers at least 1.5m. If you add
some top load wires on the towers you would come close to 1.83 MHz. I
As many have stated Mike was a great OP. We did have our first 160 QSO in
April 1982, the first ever between VK and SM btw. I was surprised over the
signal he was putting out. Since then many more QSOs were to follow but we
never managed to make a complete RTTY QSO on 160 even thou we tried.
Mike
Hi guys!
Most or maybe all of us have been talking about 160 as the low band and that
is correct in a sence IF they are just about to open up 500 kHz on a more
global basis. I do not dream of working ZL on 500 but just want to figure
out how big interest there is at this reflector to run some tests
FT DX5000MP.
A friend of mine has one of those. He wants to buy an Elecraft P3
Panadapter.
On the back of this rig there is a RCA IF output. We believe it is the 2nd
IF at 9 MHz.
A relevant Q is:
What is the bandwidth of this output, is that OK for a panadapter?
73
Len
SM7BIC
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To
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Ämne: Re: Topband: Need help to improve DX on 1/2 acre lot from
CA(k...@juno.com)
I agree with most, but be careful not to be louder on TX than you can RX!
Easy to achieve from a small lot with loads of qrn and qrm, ask me.
Allso there is a point where your ouput power "flat top", and dont sh
Tom et al,'this a hobby, pse dont take it that seriously
73
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Tom W8JI
Skickat: den 17 december 2012 18:55
Till: topband@contesting.com
Ämne: Re: Topband: GAP Vertical Question
> To work at its m
Rick,
You will never find out which way is the cheapest.
Put down all the radials you can manage, the longer - the better.
Do not care about a few USD up/dwn.
The more, the better!
73
CU on 160
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Ri
W8JI said:
"I never understood, and never agreed with the "160 committee" abolishing
the DX window.
I thought it showed people with larger stations on the east coast have lost
touch with life with smaller stations in difficult areas. It is much like
billionaires making rules for the middle class
...or for a single band, instead of using ground rods, use a fair ground
radial network at the far side.
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För Tom W8JI
Skickat: den 28 november 2012 16:58
Till: Martin; topband@contesting.com
Ämne: R
Yes, There is only one CW dedicated guy and he does 80 and sometimes 160.
Len
SM7BIC
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Från: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] För f6...@orange.fr
Skickat: den 15 november 2012 19:19
Till: topband@contesting.com
Ämne: Topband: V84SMD
Hello all, looks like
GM Pete et al:
That "metric stuff" is widely used around the globe.
Cu on 459 ft.
73
Len SM7BIC
On 11/14/2012 3:48 PM, ZR wrote:
> I cant find the button to convert that metric stuff to good old USA
> measurements when posted from this country(-:
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Bob, I agree with you. If I remember correctly, getting close to (NTCA)= no
tower climbing age, VP6DX used a very good procedure moving their TX QRG
up/down by about 0.5 kHz, more than enough to keep the real amateur bastards
away from making qrm on their TX FQ.
I guess this "new flue" is gettin
Hi,
I was up early this morning (Tuesday 25th September) and heard W5UN come up
on 160m at 0444utc. Though very weak and with deep QSB, he was by far and
away the strongest on my K9AY when switched NE and next strongest when
switched SE. I'm in IO51, he is in EM19; direct bearing is 296 degre
Frank, Herb et al,
Same here but only got 160 SSB confirmed.
Maybe one has to do it all over again?
Len
SM7BIC
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För donov...@starpower.net
Skickat: den 7 juni 2012 17:29
Till: Herb Schoen
Fellow Topbanders
When I went to www.yemen2012.com and went to confirm my QSOs, the Club Log
"REQUEST QSL" icon comes up with a line for each QSO checked in green.
After filling in the dates and times and clicking on the "Confirm QSO
Details" instead of getting feedback like the last DXpedi
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Från: Lennart M [mailto:lennart.michaels...@telia.com]
Skickat: den 6 maj 2012 19:43
Till: 'Guy Olinger K2AV'
Ämne: Topband: Monopole Radiation Patterns, takeoff angles
"
Dark matter, dark energy...we're having a VERY hard time making o
Hi Jim et al,
There is a third way, often overlooked.
The radiated power is rectified - at least to some degree by lousy
connections, i e aluminium fences to Al poles, which then reradiate. Look
for those sources and poor connections as well.
73
By the way, 160 is still open
Len
SM7BIC
-Urspr
Like Herb is pointing out, one of the problems with stuff bought off the
shelf (from DXE or others) is the lack of documentation.
I have been waiting more than 3 years - so far without luck - for a real
documentaione of the DXE NCC-1 which is a very good phasing unit but int the
end one sertainly
Much has been written about 3C6A and the way to handle it. Give it a break,
please and use some time listening. As the sunrise curve moves to the west
they would look for Easy Eu, west Eu, Na east coast, midwest and the
westcoast. This time span is no more than a few hours as seen from 3C6,
Givwe t
Gentlemen,
Running 50w I only worked Jeff VY2ZM who was real strong as usual but after
a few calls to other loud stations I switched off.
Would say it is almost impossible to get thru with low power. Never turned
on my Henry 4K.
Looking forward to this promising winter. Plase dont be afried of s
Here you can read more about how IARU deals witth this matter
http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=173&func=startdown&id=368
73
Len
SM7BIC
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UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Have you studied what IARU says about the 160 m bandplan?
To summarize: SSB is allowed "all over the place"!
We can never expect ITU or even the national authorities to take action in
order to divide this band into segments.
With the present statements from IARU any narrow band mode is allowed any
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