- 1. Topband: RE: Topband Digest, Vol 6, Issue 20 (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers at aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Wed Jun 25 06:20:40 2003
- Hello Gents Ref : ( This Orion testing has gone from questionable to absolutely ridiculous. ) Objective Lab testing is fine if the real world results hold up. If the Lab results for the FT1000 MP Mk
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-06/msg00074.html (6,880 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers at aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Tue May 13 19:15:23 2003
- For an old fellow with not so good eyes I found Toms mod for the Mk 5 very staight forward. Plenty of light on the work bench, lots of cups of tea. Many thanks Tom. Regards Alan Downing. G3ZES
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00104.html (7,548 bytes)
- 3. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers at aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Mon Jan 27 15:43:21 2003
- European stations heard had clicks more than 300 Hz up and down from the carrier frequency (Yaesu must be the rig of choice), My Mk 5 has been on the shelf for months. I wont sell the problem on. Bes
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00239.html (6,470 bytes)
- 4. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:21:32 EST
- Hello Gents Should anyone require data for evaluating how a 140 ft shunt fed tower works with the top 50 ft running vertically downwards. I am in a position to offer such information. Talk to you whe
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-10/msg00159.html (6,507 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Buried radials (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 15:06:04 EDT
- Hello Gents If the only option is bury radials about three feet deep in a field that is plowed, is it worth doing for another quarter wave vertical. ? I dont mind the work if the results are worth it
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-09/msg00152.html (6,809 bytes)
- 6. Topband: QRP Dx (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 15:28:20 EDT
- Hello Gents The U.K. had a legal input power of ten watts for years, with a typical pre crystal filter receiver and a back garden sixty feet long contacts with north and south America could be made m
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-06/msg00072.html (7,061 bytes)
- 7. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:25:17 EDT
- Hello Gents Any ideas about stations S9 around 1825 seems to be digi SSB with the odd burst of data Not sure if they are on Lsb or Usb. Splatter can be heard from 1820 to 1827 ?? Should they be here
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00036.html (6,346 bytes)
- 8. Topband: Increasing 160 activity (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:32:05 EDT
- Hello Gents General activity is low in europe, with established stations maybe listening then popping up to work the new one, not many C Qs nowdays. Also Im probably as guilty as most at not taking t
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00082.html (6,514 bytes)
- 9. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com (SteamBoilers@aol.com)
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:23:34 EST
- Hello Gents For 160 is a quarter wave insulated vertical better than a quarter wave shunt fed tower over the same amount of radials. (insulating the tower is more problematic ) but will work at whats
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00121.html (6,609 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Low Topband dipole (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:07:26 EDT
- "To the person who was inquiring about putting up a 160 meter dipole at around 70 feet " Try the Carolina Windom 160. Works on all bands with both vertical and horizontal polarisation. Ive had one up
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00119.html (6,505 bytes)
- 11. RE: Topband: Fw: 25G insulators (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:12:02 EDT
- " The insulators that K8GG referred to are made by Antenna Mart in GA. They are also available from Allen Bond at MaxGain Systems in Marietta GA " Why not shunt feed it, Its a lot cheaper and more us
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00139.html (6,775 bytes)
- 12. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:30:51 EDT
- "No tower is zero ohms from top to bottom, other wise it would be a superconductor" I seem to have lost the plot, the voltage across the 15 foot gamma match relates to a small fixed percentage of the
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00162.html (7,113 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: 160m DX calling channel (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:42:04 EDT
- Hello Steve "Let's find a frequency and give it a go. " The down side is that on 160 it is a lot easier to generate a signal that can be heard, but due to space limitations the rx side is lacking. In
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-09/msg00088.html (6,946 bytes)
- 14. Topband: CQWW (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 16:49:08 EST
- Hello Gents Conditions were good in Europe, bit noisy with quite a few clicks. RL9F was worked at 14:12 Well before sunset on Sunday and UA9CLB UA0AGI were heard but were working JA at 14:48. FM5GU w
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00005.html (6,445 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Key clicks (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:07:43 EST
- Had fun in the Stew and noticed that some regular contesters still have key clicks. In the Eu there were some very noticeable key clicks, also some very clean signals. Usa stations could easily be he
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00270.html (7,918 bytes)
- 16. Topband: Low Bands Rx aerial (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 03:52:01 EST
- Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, Happy New year to all. Would welcome comments as to using a Carolina Windom 160 special as a receiving only aerial mounted at six feet or there abouts. This would mean mos
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00074.html (7,207 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband:mode separation...small stn dx oppty (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:16:28 EDT
- Hello Jim In the early 70s with a lot with no front garden and 66ft back garden. Legal limit of 10W input. Rx that was so wide there was no need to move the big dial much. Technical Know how very mi
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00208.html (8,415 bytes)
- 18. Topband: Yaesu Key clicks (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:17:14 EST
- W8JI Toms FT1000 key click mod works great. Well done Tom, Yaesu still showing no interest in solving the problem. What's needed is a switch to bypass the mod for contests with maybe a points increas
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00238.html (6,346 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: ? Key-clicks FT1000MK-V field ? (score: 1)
- Author: SteamBoilers@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:54:48 EST
- That is the main reason why I did away all my YAESU stuff and now run the ORION. Nobody since has ever complained about key clicks on my transmissions Spent thousands £ $ when the Mk5 first cam
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00229.html (8,329 bytes)
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