- 21. Topband: 160 Meters Mobile Antenna Suggestions (score: 1)
- Author: w7ti at ispwest.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Sat May 10 12:26:55 2003
- _________________________________________________________ I think bandwidth *is* a good indicator of mobile antenna efficiency, provided you're comparing the same configuration and changing only the
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00070.html (8,742 bytes)
- 22. Topband: 160 Meters Mobile Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: w7ti at ispwest.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Sat May 10 12:26:57 2003
- _________________________________________________________ Really? You're saying there is a material which passes the "microwave oven" test but is *not* suitable for HF coil forms? What would that mat
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00071.html (9,578 bytes)
- 23. Topband: Better days are coming (I hope)! (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Sun May 11 10:43:11 2003
- First the good news: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/weekly/pdf/prf1444.pdf (see page 18) ...and then the bad news: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/ (note blue line) Solar flux is rapidly heading down, but unfortu
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00080.html (6,875 bytes)
- 24. Topband: Replies to replies to... (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon May 12 09:01:50 2003
- Guys, I've been letting this slide but it's now getting out of hand. Please note the following from the reflector guidelines: "Be considerate of other subscribers who have bandwidth limitations and e
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00092.html (7,138 bytes)
- 25. Topband: Re: Mobile Antenna bandwidth (score: 1)
- Author: w7ti at ispwest.com (Bill Turner)
- Date: Mon May 12 12:11:17 2003
- _________________________________________________________ I presume you're talking about a condition where there is so much shunting capacitance that the self-resonant frequency is approaching the ac
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00093.html (8,760 bytes)
- 26. Topband: VP6DIA Update (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Wed Mar 12 18:45:50 2003
- Both K4CIA and W9NGA reported their 24 MHz op as saying "160 tonight". Depending on their departure plans, this could be their last night of operation...but hopefully tomorrow also. GL to all! Bill W
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00033.html (6,291 bytes)
- 27. Topband: J5 (score: 1)
- Author: Bill at AA6TT.com (William H. Hein)
- Date: Thu Mar 13 12:01:04 2003
- Simone J5UCW told me today that he will try to get on 160m when he returns to the mainland on the 22nd and that he will be QRV thru Apr 2nd. Will have an inverted L. I assume he'll be using the J5UDX
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00037.html (6,257 bytes)
- 28. Topband: ST0RY QRV (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Thu Mar 20 17:45:52 2003
- ST0RY began at 22 UTC on 1828.6 listening up 3. See full details on their website at: http://www.df3cb.com/st0ry/ This should be an excellent expedition with A1 ops DL3DXX and DK7YY knowing how to op
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00051.html (6,539 bytes)
- 29. Topband: ST0RY (score: 1)
- Author: Bill at AA6TT.com (William H. Hein)
- Date: Sun Mar 23 05:54:22 2003
- I worked ST0RY tonight @! 0012z on 1828.6 QSX 1833. BIG signal-S9 against S3 noise level. The ops on this DXpedition seem to know what they're doing, nice snappy CW on all the bands I've heard them o
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00053.html (6,312 bytes)
- 30. Topband: Fish Net Beacons (and searching archives) (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Tue Mar 25 06:56:31 2003
- Ken, these beacons have been covered many times in the past. I believe the most recent post was in December of this year: http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/2002-December/016202.html This gives a l
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00060.html (8,124 bytes)
- 31. Topband: Trap Dipole for 160/80 Meters (score: 1)
- Author: w7kxb at cox.net (KXBill)
- Date: Fri Mar 28 05:52:30 2003
- Al: Why bother with traps? If you are going to use an open wire transmission line, you no doubt will be using an AT. A half wave CF dipole on 160 would be two half waves in phase on 80 and performs w
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00068.html (6,515 bytes)
- 32. Topband: Good Condx Last Night (score: 1)
- Author: gaines at wcoil.com (Bill Gaines)
- Date: Sat Feb 1 10:14:43 2003
- Last night had some of the best conditions I have ever heard from this location with my meager antenna ("T"). I worked a few but with 120 watts, results are limited. The night started with I2BBJ at a
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00003.html (6,471 bytes)
- 33. Topband: Long and Skewed Path Article (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Sat Feb 1 10:40:21 2003
- I've been communicating with John ON4UN and a request from him finally gave me the impetus to scan my 1991 article for Proceedings of Fine Tuning (a low band SWL publication). I don't really want to
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00004.html (7,027 bytes)
- 34. Topband: JT1CO (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon Feb 3 09:26:03 2003
- Wow! I finally worked Chak JT1CO to complete my 160 WAZ. I posted a little analysis here for any interested: http://users.vnet.net/btippett/JT1CO.htm Thank you Chak for your perseverance and patience
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00024.html (6,745 bytes)
- 35. Topband: RE: JT1CO contact ! (score: 1)
- Author: wlakatos at nrao.edu (Bill Lakatosh)
- Date: Mon Feb 3 16:12:25 2003
- Congratulations to both Bill W4ZV and Jon AA1K on their accomplishment this morning. Thanks for the detailed notes on the Path to JT1, very interesting and helpful. You both deserve the contact for a
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00028.html (6,304 bytes)
- 36. Topband: CQ Magazine Skewed Path Article (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon Feb 3 18:12:45 2003
- Thanks to Carl K9LA, CQ Magazine has given permission to make his August 1999 article "Skewed Paths to Europe On the Low Bands" available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file. It is referenced at the very b
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00031.html (6,909 bytes)
- 37. Topband: Long and Skewed Path Articles (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Thu Feb 6 16:29:28 2003
- I reorganized my Webpage to put all articles about these propagation modes on one page at: http://users.vnet.net/btippett/long_and_skew_path_articles.htm Hopefully this will make it easier to read an
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00038.html (6,590 bytes)
- 38. Topband: 1000MP Noise Blanker (score: 1)
- Author: k1xt at hotmail.com (bill thomas)
- Date: Tue Feb 18 07:17:28 2003
- Has anyone attempted a NB mod on the 1000MP that is similar to that of the 1000D? My measurements show that even with the NB switched off and the control fully CCW that there is still 1.6 volts prese
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00068.html (6,991 bytes)
- 39. Topband: Drake R4C help (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Fri Feb 21 10:39:39 2003
- Webpage: http://www.sherweng.com/ E-mail: ro<mailto:robert@sherweng.com>bert<mailto:robert@sherweng.com>@sherweng.com
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00073.html (6,611 bytes)
- 40. Topband: Fwd: Forward of moderated message (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Wed Feb 26 08:46:21 2003
- To: <topband@contesting.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> This is a test of redirect.
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00089.html (8,147 bytes)
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