Congratulations Nick. Glad you made it into the log.
73, Les W2LK (VP6D Team)
On 2/21/2019 7:34 AM, uy0zg wrote:
Hi All
Photo QSL on the site :
http://www.topband.in.ua
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Fishing beacons?
Les W2LK
On 12/16/2017 3:19 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
From time to time I'm hearing some non-ham stations transmitting on
1823 and 1829 KHz. These signals typically pop up as steady carriers
then identify in Morse and disappear. I've heard IDs of 4OMD, 4NAF
and 4NAG.
Ideas?
Gary,
Sounds like a normal antenna raising day in the woods. Your antenna will
probably work fine now. Don't ask me how I know that...
73, Les W2LK
On 9/25/2016 1:22 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
A little follow-up with my life in the
fast lane...
I move slowly, all considering, kind of
like Ahab
I worked them on 80M last night at 0015Z.
Couldn't really hear them well enough on 160 for anything but hoping.
Les W2LK
On 3/31/2016 8:58 AM, donov...@starpower.net wrote:
Hi Jim,
FT4JA was very weak with lots of deep QSB here last night,
They would peak up to S5 for a few seconds then fade
I couldn't hear a peep yesterday from about 1015Z and today from about
1045Z until our sunrise at 1140Z.
I did hear VY2ZM and K8PO and another K1 in MA work them yesterday.
Today, not one call to them.
73, Les W2LK
On 2/24/2016 9:30 AM, Bob Lawson wrote:
I've been losing a lot of sleep trying
Glad you made it Gary.
73, Les W2LK
On 1/22/2016 10:54 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
Bill,
Never say never. I worked them at 02:13 last night (Thanks Roger for
the email today saying you'd heard the contact). It was right after
they stopped working EU and I was waiting patiently on frequency till
I he
Apparently, they had problems tuning the Battle Creek Special and were
using a SteppIR vertical the first day.
That's been fixed and was what they were using today.
It's bad enough they were working JA's during this morning's opening but
I heard them call EU too and was shaking my head.
Les W
Bill,
Spot Collector, a program in the free DXLab Suite, can do this.
It is capable of collecting spots from up to four internet sources
simultaneously and displaying them on the screen in real time.
It has extensive filtering capabilities so you could set a filter for
160 spots from NA East fo
This morning I could hear them S5-6 on 80M and worked them there but
they were clearly having trouble hearing.
On 160M I couldn't hear them at all although I heard stations calling
them around 1015UTC.
Their web site says they have high noise levels on 80 and 160 from the
resort hotel they are.
They were on top band tonight but really weak at best. I heard them
better on the inverted L than the beverage which is really weird. They
didn't start calling until around 2330Z.
The ditter was a pita.
73, Les W2LK
On 2/3/2014 6:33 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
Well, it's academic for tonight becau
Gary,
I know I heard you in there last night and I think they got you OK.
I heard them come back to K2QMF very clearly.
73, Les W2LK
On 2/3/2014 6:02 PM, Gary Smith wrote:
Yes, anything is possible. I got a couple of emails last night from
guys saying they heard the Q but between those bastar
Nice going.
I worked them at 1121Z, ten minutes before my sunrise this AM. Good
signal and little QRM.
Inverted L and a beverage.
Les W2LK
On 11/6/2013 10:55 AM, Mark Lunday wrote:
I am paying for it today, but it was worth it to stay up until 2:30 AM local
East Coast time this morning to wo
I use ladder line from the Wireman and from Davis RF. I think the
conductors are copper plated solid steel.
I bought 1/4" thick 2" wide strips of acrylic from McMaster Carr and
made a pair of clamps of 6" long pieces by cutting grooves for the wire
thickness, two holes for ss bolts and one for a
I do the same thing except I hang a 4" plastic clothes line pulley from
the rope. The antenna wire runs through the pulley.
Ended all the abrasion issues and I can easily lower the pulley if
necessary.
The actual antenna wire is from DavisRF.
73, Les W2LK
On 7/23/2013 4:55 AM, Gary Smith wro
Mike,
Here's a link to an article on crimp UHF connectors with suppliers. It's
from 2008 so the prices may have changed:
http://www.eham.net/articles/19257
Today, you can get a crimp tool from a number of suppliers ranging from
the low $30s and up.
I have been using RF Industries UHF Crimp c
Dave,
For design parameters check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_tee
I use a home brew one for reversing remote beverages which is a .1uf cap
and any small rf choke in the 100uh and up range that will handle relay
current.
In my case the relay current I used as a minimum design level w
I heard the same thing you did Gary but I wasn't able to break the
pileup on either band.
I hope I can eventually get through what is among the worst intentional
QRM on a DX station that I have heard.
73, Les W2LK
On 11/12/2012 12:37 AM, Gary K9GS wrote:
Tonight PT0S was on 80M...big pile-up.
Bryan,
Use RG-6 direct burial or equivalent for the beverage connection. No
need to use LMR400.
You should be able to find it relatively inexpensively.
Make sure you have a matching transformer for the beverage impedance to
72 ohms for the RG-6.
W8JI.com will give you just about all the info
On Lord Howe Island last summer, on 160M, we deployed a Spiderbeam 18M
fiberglass telescopic pole with a 1/4 wave wire taped to it.
The excess wire came off the top like an inverted L and was tied to a
convenient fence.
There were two sets of 4 light synthetic rope guys to ground stakes.
We had a
Wayne,
That's what mine does with the same components.
Works fine.
Les W2LK
On 6/18/2012 2:45 PM, Wayne Willenberg wrote:
> I am preparing to install a reversible Beverage antenna, using 450 Ohm
> ladderline. All of the components are from DX Engineering. The maximum
> length I could fit on my
Walt,
Having done just that, here is what I did:
I have an Ameritron RCS-8V remote 5 port antenna switch at the support
point for one of the Beverages.
The other beverage termination is connected to this switch through a run
of direct burial RG-6.
Unused ports on this switch are not grounded.
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