Does anyone on the reflector have any direct experience regarding possible Rx impacts of windmill power generation? Does anyone LIVE NEAR ONE or a CLUSTER of such devices? What issues may be known wi
Hello Gang I am posting this to the reflectors because I think it may help others in executing W8JI's keying mod to the FT1000 (D) model. Briefly, let me comment on this radio versus the MP and the M
Hi Gang Here's a suggestion on the FT1000D APF mod. Take the BOARD out - buy the three surface mount resistors that must be installed (in place of what's there) and if you are not comfortable doing m
Greetings from the land of the GIANT noise clouds! My apologies to those I could not hear last night. Despite two sets of side by side 1000 foot beverages and a PENNANT on Europe, this place continue
If anyone needs a 160M QSL for our operations this week, please QSL direct to PP5VB with an SAE and green stamp. I will be giving Barbosa all my logs for the pre-contest PP5JR operations and he will,
Greetings for the last time from Boa Vista Many thanks to all who hung in there and kept calling us on Topband over the weekend. We managed to pull many of you out of the noise - with over 150 of the
GM Gang G3CFV, Frank, I recently received this piece which recites W1BB's account of how he worked his 100th DXCC counter on Topband in 1969. It was actually Stew's 103rd country at the time but thre
Gm Gang I have just returned to NY from up North on VY2 and wish to report on something from a couple of week's ago.... I was outside doing antenna work in the yard on the morning of the 20th when a
Hi Gang Has anyone ever seen this one before on 160M? And, if so, what is the propagation mechanism at work here? I was operating in CQ WPX CW last Saturday night up at VY2 and at about 0000z I heard
Hi Guys Been reading this stuff....... One thing I learned several years ago is that having Multiple XMIT antennas on Topband (some horizontally polarized and some vertically polarized) can be very i
GM Paul was up again last night with a good signal on 1827.5 starting about 0232Z. He seems to have some phase distortion, at times, which makes his signal seem almost modulated. During these periods
I noticed today that the following guys in the hole have worked ET3PMW: K9RJ ]KD9SV NR0X (Iowa!) NICE GOING guys! Congrats on working a tough one at any time of year, let alone May! 73 JEFF K1ZM@aol.
Author: K1ZM@aol.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:10:53 +0100
Dear Topbanders: Some of you may know that I am currently serving as one of the USA Fundraisers for WRTC 2002 in Helsinki, Finland. WRTC 2002 is the "Olympics of Ham Radio" contesting and over 50 tea
Hi Gang I am writing to express thanks on behalf of OH2BH and the CCF for your fine support of WRTC 2002 in Dayton. The winners in our SAS raffle were: W0UN - John Brosnahan AA6IR - Henry Miller of L
Author: K1ZM@aol.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:37:04 +0000
Hi All! I thought this was so intesting I'm forwarding it to the reflector. I also heard W1JZ and W1ZC calling around 1115 UTC so the Northeast clearly had a good LP opening today. Last night I menti
Hi Ron & Others on the 160M Reflector Ron, I am responding to your recent email post to the 160M reflector and specifically to your comments on the issues related to SSB contesting that will surface
Hi Gang Looking over the comments now taking place on our various reflectors, I would like to add some more food for thought as we all look forward to operating in the CQWW SSB in 10 days or so. To c
In talking with Dennis, NB1B, earlier this week, I am pretty sure he advised that he and others were again going to activate VB2V from Northern Quebec during the upcoming CQWW SSB Test - This would b
Author: K1ZM@aol.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:00:59 +0100
The attached message was received this morning from one of our friends at PI4COM. He asks that we listen DOWN during CQWW SSB below 1843 for his CQ calls. Ulli will be listening SPLIT above 1843 for