Greeting Topband Group,
I've been shunt feeding my tower for probably the last 20 years. I've used
a 1000PF vacuum variable and a second vacuum variable for a omega match
configuration.
Last week, I added a 2 EL 40 meter yagi to the tower and removed an OptiBeam
30/40 rotary dipole. Of co
Smeman,
Exciting few hours on TB. Condx to EU seemed very marginal last evening
however, at 01:49Z, I heard UN9L calling CQ. Completed the QSO with 559
both ways.
This AM, I worked OX/OZ1LXJ, HL5IVL, JA4CQS (579) report for me, VK3NX and
VK2WF. WF was a true 599 10 minutes after my SR.
Gentlemen,
We have gone down this road many times. Some of us use and like FT8, others
think it is the end of Ham radio. No one is going to change their mind or
position.
I had a 35 minute CW rag chew with John G3PQA earlier this week. I've
worked more than 10 VK and ZL stations over the pas
