Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-12 Thread Clay Melhorn
From: Topband on behalf of Jim F. via Topband Sent: Friday, May 10, 2024 5:15 PM To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com ; Tree Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning 79 and 83 ?You guys ain't seen nothin yet !I turned 85 this week and oftensay - w

Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-10 Thread Jim F. via Topband
79 and 83 ?You guys ain't seen nothin yet !I turned 85 this week and oftensay - wish I was 80 again ! Absolutely amazed at what happens with age.If only I realized that I would have been more understanding with grandparents etc... 73, Jim W1FMR On Friday, May 10, 2024, 3:12:31 PM EDT,

Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-10 Thread Tree
K1WHS getting back on topband!!??!! That's great news!! Tree N6TR On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 10:52 AM Jim Brown wrote: > On 5/10/2024 10:27 AM, David Olean wrote: > > At 79+ years I am hopeful that I can re assemble things before I give up > > the ghost. > > Going 83, I'm now dependent on friends

Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-10 Thread Jim Brown
On 5/10/2024 10:27 AM, David Olean wrote: At 79+ years I am hopeful that I can re assemble things before I give up the ghost. Going 83, I'm now dependent on friends to help me deal with damage to antennas by winter storms. Branches (and even trees) fall on RX antennas. The 250 ft Douglas Fir

Re: Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-10 Thread David Olean
Hello Dave, Well, I picked a good year to have my woods logged! I had to remove all of my beverage wires, so was off the air way back in early December. The woods have been logged, but it is a mess and needs some grading before I can start re assembling my 160 system.  The ground never froze v

Topband: End of Season, Spring Cleaning

2024-05-09 Thread David Raymond
Greetings Topbanders. . . Here at the conclusion of the topband season I have to say it was right up there with the worst season I've experienced in my three plus decades on Topband.  Propagation to both Europe and Asia was virtually non-existent many days.  The only saving grace (at least her