- 1. Topband: Inverted L SWR Jumps ??? (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:49:18 -0700
- So I am trying to get set up better on 160 meters. I now have two antennas up (pretty well separated). One is an Alpha Delta DX A sloper hung in a tree with a grounding wire led to a ground rod and s
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00417.html (8,176 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Inverted L SWR Jumps ??? (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:14:26 -0700
- Ok, everyone thanks for all the help. I rebuilt the antenna from new wire, built a two insulator termination at the end of the horizontal section where the high voltage is, I rehung the new antenna s
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00438.html (11,392 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Beverage on Ground (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:20:23 -0700
- No, I didn't spill my beer. But I am having very good experience with the roughly 300 foot Beverage on Ground that I just put in at my house. It is fed through a 300 ohm transformer and runs in the o
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00469.html (9,166 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Top Loading a 43 footer (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 09:46:42 -0700
- I do this with great success. Just put the longest wire you can (up to 85 feet) and run it as horizontal as you can. I assume you already load your antenna through an unun, So shorter than 85 feet wi
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00015.html (7,569 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: GAP VERTICAL QUESTION (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:12:56 -0700
- I don't know about the Gaps, but a 43' vertical fed through a 4:1 unun works very well for me on 40-10 meters on a remote hilltop. On 80 and 160 I simply top load it with a long wire. When not in use
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00316.html (11,187 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Fw: GAP VERTICAL QUESTION (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:07:59 -0700
- This wonderful article written by L.B.Cebic W4RNL sure can make you a believer in a simple wire inverted L. It is the last antenna discussed. http://www.users.on.net/~bcr/files/backyard%20wire%20ante
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00325.html (11,624 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: Fw: GAP VERTICAL QUESTION (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:11:58 -0700
- The question is not "How would you set up a contest station?" it is "What is practical to keep on air in a Senior Living situation?" Now if you have a bunch of grand kids you can talk into installing
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00327.html (14,558 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Fw: GAP VERTICAL QUESTION (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:44:54 -0700
- So here's a question. I have a vertical mounted on a cliff side that performs incredibly. My amateur's approach to figuring out why is that I modeled it in EZNEC as being elevated 400 feet. That show
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00351.html (10,302 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: GAP Vertical Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:19:41 -0700
- What I can add from personal experience is that a vertical dipole (center fed half wave) without radials, on a rocky cliff top is an absolute killer antenna on the upper HF bands. My vertical dipole
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00472.html (12,326 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:22:03 -0700
- Let's not lose the fact that contests on 160 are events as much as contests they are times when an otherwise barren band fills up. There's a lot of fun just in working all you can. Those of us in dee
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00517.html (13,777 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Short Bogs (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:44:32 -0700
- My BOG was a breakthrough after previously using just my inverted L on receive. Its 300 feet fed through a 300 Ohm transformer. The transformer is grounded, but not the far end. In the last week I ad
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00628.html (10,628 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: A little assistance needed with an attempt at a T antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 08:44:03 -0700
- I don't believe that the off center top loading will have a huge effect if you feed it as a T, vs a symmetric T Theory would say that a ground fed T against even 3-4 radials will have a lower DX angl
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-01/msg00022.html (12,124 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: Magnetic Loops (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:51:14 -0600
- I have the Wellbrook at 2 QTHs and it works way better than using a transmit antenna on receive. It also works very well early in the evening when signals are still iffy and coming in at all angles.
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-05/msg00125.html (10,984 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: More anecdotal "stories" to cause one to stop and.... (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 12:54:55 -0600
- When you use antenna modeling software to look at a low dipole on 160 you note three things: 1) They are extremely high angle radiators and 2) Raising the height from say 10 feet to say 100 feet has
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-09/msg00128.html (16,476 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Low dipole for receiving (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:01:12 -0600
- I use a Wellbrook loop for receive and it is really effective vs my transmit antenna. I also have a 300 foot Beverage on Ground (BOG) early in the evening the loop seems to work best, later often the
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-09/msg00257.html (11,273 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: Outdoor cable trunking - opinions pse (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 07:25:37 -0600
- I have pretty different needs on a mountain top in Western Colorado I need to shield my cables from pack rats who will chew on it. I use very inexpensive irrigation tubing which is made for in ground
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-10/msg00059.html (9,967 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: Coax rodent protection (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:00:46 -0700
- All my coax needs to be protected from pack rats I use inexpensive rolls of underground sprinkler pipe as the covering. Works FB. _________________ Topband Reflector
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-11/msg00175.html (8,402 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: Easy-to-learn 160 contest logging program? (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:13:02 -0700
- I was able to install N1MM the day I received my General and play around in the California QSO Party cant be that hard if I managed it on day one. Years later I am still finding additional features h
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00023.html (10,129 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: DX Window (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:06:33 -0700
- The issue I believe is that many peoples 160 antennas are limited in frequency breadth. There is really just one SSB contest. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00100.html (10,691 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: Antenna Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:47:03 -0700
- The 43 foot antennas are very short (low inductance, poor efficiency) on 160. Only my very best tuners will tune them and tuning doesnt make them efficient, it only makes them not destroy the radio w
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00109.html (8,941 bytes)
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