Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 15:38:10 -0500
This is a rewrite of Don Chester's excellent posting he made to the Top Band reflector. It contains simplified instructions for filing you own comments. Thank you, Don, for reminding us all about thi
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 10:24:10 -0400
For those who may interested in visiting the Titan Missile Museum and/or learning more about the museum and ham radio operations there, here are a few links that may interest you: http://www.titanmis
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:36:37 -0400
Jim, Davis RF BuryFlex is the way to go. It has a PE jacket, a stranded copper center conductor, it's direct burial (just as the name implies), and it handles direct sunlight exposure very well. I ha
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 17:29:51 -0400
Go to this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23847007/Radio-Engineers-Handbook-1943-Terman ...and then type page 686 at the box in the toolbar just above the page display. It takes you to page 674 in t
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:49:28 -0500
Gary, I know I worked them on 40 SSB last night, and I do not appear in the log. So, I checked about a dozen other guys in the spots for 40 SSB last night who supposedly worked them after I did. None
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:02:50 -0500
The pulse faded into the noise around 1300Z here in central NC. As of 2300Z, nothing heard. Local sunset was about an hour ago. 73, Tony K4QE _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:14:25 -0500
I suppose we should go back to spark gap transmitters and coherent detectors, too... :-) 73, Tony K4QE "It seems that newcomers want the easy way out, and technology supplies it. _________________ To
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:07:00 -0500
I don't see ARRL staff pulling down six figure salaries, driving expensive cars, or living in mansions. Why do we always assume there is an ulterior and possibly malicious motive? The inescapable fac
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:15:01 -0400
You can find some of Guy's info on BOGs (among other things) on this page: http://www.w0uce.net/K2AVantennas.html 73, Tony K4QE _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.co
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:28:46 -0500
Gary, If you want to read more about Stew W1BB and expand your knowledge on the history of 160, you would be hard pressed to beat this book by Jeff, K1ZM. http://www.amazon.com/DXing-Edge-The-Thrill-
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:21:53 -0400
"Maybe someday there will be unmanned solar-powered stations on remote DX entities." This was actually proposed at the 2017 IDXC in Visalia by a well-known and prolific DXpeditioner. I was the only p
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:30:41 -0400
George, I understand and agree with most of what you say, but the sailboat analogy is a bad one. I can sail a boat alone. I can't have a QSO without someone else on the same mode. The vacuum FT8 crea
Author: Anthony Scandurra <anthony.scandurra@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:04:45 -0400
I stand corrected. Thank you, Joe and Grant, for the RTTY history lesson. I hope my point about the reduction of the human element was not lost despite its faulty premise with regard to RTTY. 73, Ton