- 1. Topband: Fwd: Open wire lines - fact and fiction (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:10:54 EDT
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- /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00119.html (6,106 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Open Wire Lines - Fact and Fiction (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:53:32 EDT
- While recently reviewing some recent postings RE: open wire transmission lines, I found some controversial info to which I would like to add my 2 cents worth. Particularly intersting was the claim by
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00129.html (11,188 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Beverage question (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:29:07 EDT
- I would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with a beverage over a frozen pond or shallow lake (fresh water!) during winter. Eric von Valtier K8LV ________________________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-10/msg00134.html (6,519 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Beverage Noise pickup (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:48:28 EST
- Clive: The best way to decide if the TX antenna is "re-transmitting" noise into the RX antenna, just try opening and shorting the TX feedline while listening to the noise on the RX antenna. Changing
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00094.html (7,478 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Calculating Saturation of Ferrite Cores (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:58 EST
- The postings on this subject give the false impression that this issue is too complicated for the average person to handle himself, and suggests that those who need the correct information consult th
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00104.html (9,705 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Input Impedance of the FT1000/S-Meter Calibration issues (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:35:20 EST
- Recent comments on this topic finally started to focus on one of the weak links in trying to establish meaningful S-meter calibration. That is, the question of the true input Z of the RX. This is ver
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00133.html (8,509 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Strange conditions Sunday night (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:49:21 EST
- As a newcomer to 160M dxing, I am near the bottom of the learning curve relative to propagation on this interesting and perplexing band. Last night I witnessed an anomaly that is maybe fairly common
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00134.html (7,363 bytes)
- 8. Topband: S-meter Calibration (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:44:29 EST
- When I posted the measurement data, I really had no agenda. That seems to have been supplied by all of the responses. I simply wanted to document it to avoid some hand waving that goes on. However, n
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00170.html (6,713 bytes)
- 9. Topband: KH6ZM Pileup and Operating Manners (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:49:49 EST
- This morning there was large and noisy pileup over Kh6ZM, whose waves were arriving here in the Midwest as though the propagation gods were hand-carrying them from his antenna to mine. Judging from t
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00279.html (9,503 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: FEEDING AN END-FED LONGWIRE (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 02:19:23 EST
- Rich: Your antenna is really a vertical (the feedline) with a horizontal section on top that some regard as 'top loading'. There is no point in running a coax up to the wire. Just feed the one-wire f
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00013.html (6,974 bytes)
- 11. Topband: New High-Performance Beverage Pre-amp (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:25:59 EDT
- During my experiments with beverage's this winter, I found it necessary to design and build good pre-amps for them. I ended up with a design which is relatively simple to build and my friend/cohort J
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00104.html (6,753 bytes)
- 12. Topband: Phase vs. polarity (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:05:35 EDT
- In reading the comments on this subject there would appear to be a controversy, which is absolutely false, as I will show. In particular, phase and polarity are NOT the same thing, and I see no menti
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00134.html (9,292 bytes)
- 13. Topband: RX Loops - Some relevant facts (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:03:42 EDT
- Note: you can skip the following if you have had one good course in EMF theory. Otherwise, read on: Consider a small loop (e.g. length=.1lambda) oriented with its plane parallel to he incoming wave d
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-05/msg00028.html (8,037 bytes)
- 14. Topband: RX Loops (score: 1)
- Author: K8LV1@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:01:48 EDT
- In the original posting by W8JI, he stated: "They (loops) are electric field dominant at distances over 1/8wl up until far field where they are no different." Ther real problem with this statement is
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-05/msg00039.html (7,530 bytes)
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