Being that K8ZT is a friend of mine, I asked him if he was on FT8 160 meters yesterday around sunset. Anthony responded that he was on and made several 160 meter FT8 QSOs, and even cooking dinner at
Continuing the great Dayton Top Band dinner tradition that George, K8GG and George, W8UVZ started, I am proud to announce the 30th Annual Dayton TopBand dinner. Dinner reservations are now available
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Antenna Forum at Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio, Room 1 Moderator: Tim Duffy, K3LR. "How to Use Your Tower as a Dual-Band Single-Feed 80 meter/160 meter Vertical Antenna Using No Traps,
The Dayton TopBand Dinner is this Friday May 17. 2019. Great speaker - Ken K4ZW. Hope to see you there! <https://www.topbanddinner.com/> https://www.topbanddinner.com/ 73 Tim K3LR _________________ S
My quarter wavelength vertical tower (driven element in my vertical parasitic array - see last 3 editions of the ON4UN low band DXing book) has a shorted quarter wavelength of coax connected to the f
Hello Pete: This is the RX limiter we use to protect front ends at K3LR. https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-rg5000hd It works very well. 73 Tim K3LR --Original Message-- From: Topband [mailto:to
Thinking about the Fall Stew coming up this Saturday, I will be trying out the BevFlex-4X that W9XT is now manufacturing. Here is the flyer: <https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/technicala
Hello Mark: Installing diodes can cause severe problems with nearby broadcast stations. During the summer months and lightning months I remove my preamps from the antenna elements to protect them. I
HI Dave There is no doubt that a diversity setup with good Beverages and the 160 meter optimized 8 circle from HI-Z will be a killer RX system. Lots of work - but very worth the effort. I LOVE my HI-
Hi Jamie! I will use it with a Flag. 73! Tim K3LR Configured how? I have the JK version, which looks very similar, except instead of internal jumpers, they have different external connecting points,
Thoughts? Hi Tim, I have a Butternut 20MRK, which is a 20 Meter Resonator Kit for the HF2V. It is a very old kit and very rare. In mint condition never used, only took it out from the package for tak
Excuse the previous message about the Butternut HF2V - it was sent by mistake 73 Tim K3LR _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
Hello Ed Here is one with a five star review https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/hiz-pre-amp I do not know what the IP3 is - a quick email to K7TJR might get that info pretty quick. 73 Tim K3LR --Ori
Continuing the great Dayton Top Band dinner tradition that George, K8GG and George, W8UVZ started, I am proud to announce the 31st Annual Dayton TopBand dinner. Dinner reservations are now available
2020 Dayton Contest University Professors and the 2020 Course Outline have been posted. <https://www.contestuniversity.com/> https://www.contestuniversity.com/ <https://www.contestuniversity.com/cour
There is no Topband dinner for Dayton this year. Press release was sent out last night. See you in 2021 73 Tim K3LR Dayton Top Band dinner chair Dayton canceled.... Guess No Topband Dinner this year
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Hello Ron: I have a base insulated 120 foot tower that acts as the driven element in my 3 element vertical Yagi antenna (switchable in 4 directions). See the ON4UN Low band book for details (last 3 e
Hello Ron: As Frank explained, micro-arcing can be an issue when using a tower as the antenna element (in fact it can happen on any tower supporting Yagi's too). Anything that is not firmly bonded to
Hello Luke, What is your callsign? 73 Tim K3LR The band has been improving significantly in the past few weeks. I have been working a few NA stations nearly every day all year, in marginal to ok cond