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My answer to your question is that I want to have an efficient vertical of
one kind or another, an efficient, low noise horizontal like a full wave
loop, and a directional receiving array.
Best DX, 73, Barry, W9UCW
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it clear to me how I get satisfaction from on-the-air contacts.
73, Barry, W9UCW
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It was great to see so many old 160 friends... old being the operative
word. Tim Duffy and Tree did a good job and all the rest who worked on the
event should be lauded for their effort. Nicely done, gang.
73, Barry, W9UCW
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This is purely anecdotal. I visited San Andres & Providencia Islands
twenty times between 1970 and 1990. I always operated 160 during those visits.
On three occasions, at three different locations, I set up a 43 foot
"Minooka Special" within 30 feet of the waters edge and had some radials
trong here that our land line was always
providing the programming from KGBT. BTW, it's a 24 hour talk radio station in
spanish. We went to all cell fones a few years ago.
CU on Topband, 73, Barry, W9UCW
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those
trips, but most of the wild stories I could tell about them had nothing to do
radio or verticals on the beach. Don't ask.
73, Best DX, Barry, W9UCW
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pecially true that day. I bet
the boys
met him at the Pearly Gates and took him right to the big 160 set-up...
with a fully
equipped workshop next door.
So long, old friend,
Barry, W9UCW
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round system like
you have. I can give you the specifics for the resonator if you wish.
Refer to the QEX articles on "Short Loaded Antennas" in the Jan/Feb and
Mar/ Apr issues for the figures.
73, Barry, W9UCW
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al is actually
made from recycled milk containers, so the factory told me. Anyone who wants
a picture, I'll send it to you.
73, Barry W9UCW
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I find that this simulator demonstrates what several of you are saying in
a very comprehensive way.
http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf/tuner/tuner.html
73, Barry
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uck in our minds all the way home that
night. We were TopBand guys, afterall!
73, Best DX, Barry, W9UCW
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Moose. I hope there's no line noise at your new
QTH.
Barry, W9UCW
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inal PVC. That slips neatly into the 2" aluminum
tubing that serves as both the antenna mount and the ground rod required by
Hi-Z. .
The tubing is available from DXE or Texas Towers among others. All four
verticals cost me about $100.
If anyone wants pi
During the discussion of various 160 Antarctic operations did anyone
mention AZ5ZA? In loading old logbooks in a new logging program I came across
a
couple contacts with them in late 1983 and January, 1984. I went digging
and found the QSL. It came through LU2A. I think there may be a new
le guys who used those loops to good
advantage with them located in their basements!
Certainly the small loops are no panacea, Clay. But, as my Grandma used to
say, "Beggars can't be choosers."
If space, restrictions and resources intervene, the small loop becomes an
impor
After reading all the comments about the end of the 160 season,
I wondered how many DX contacts I make in the "off season."
I'm not very consistent in my operating habits and although I
often "check the band" before sunrise, I'm not too good at staying
up late looking for DX to the east.
Roy, you said:
<"Whaaat??? Where did that 1.7 ohm figure come fromspace?">
Three cheers for you!!! And for Jeff! I was beginning to think that
everyone was joining in a conspiracy of silence so that if a lot of people
would
buy into the baseless prattle that has been going on for month
It sounds like classic "spotlight propagation," Larry. Happens a lot on
160. I feel lucky to have experienced it several times over the last 58 years
on topband. The most memorable one for me occurred about 8 years ago on a
Saturday evening.
I called CQDX about sunset and didn't expect m
ns, tweak the capacitance
and inductance settings and either connect or disconnect the coax up to the
conical monopole on top. I wish we still had that set up.
73, Barry, W9UCW
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his
next issue of the 160 Bulletin.
Here's wishing you as much enjoyment on TopBand as I have had in the last
58 years.
73, Barry, W9UCW
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In a message dated 11/19/2011 2:00:52 P.M. Central Standard Time,
topband-requ...@contesting.com writes:
K2AV
iends reported the signal strength they now recorded, it was
from a half to a full "S" unit more than their original readings. Now that's
certainly not very scientific, but their comments, assuming all groundwave
readings, were sure interesting to me.
73, CU on To
This subject comes up often. That should be no surprise. It's very
important to those who need to load shortened monopoles, and there is a great
deal
of conflict in the available literature on the subject. The same seems to
be true of "conventional wisdom," as one might expect. Some of us h
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