- 41. Topband: Forward of moderated message (score: 1)
- Author: topband-bounces at contesting.com (by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
- Date: Wed Feb 26 09:02:53 2003
- Received: from scythe.prexar.com (scythe.prexar.com [142.167.5.25]) by contesting.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1QCDA2O005966 for <topband@contesting.com>; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:13:16 -0500 Receiv
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00090.html (7,618 bytes)
- 42. Topband: Support Request (score: 1)
- Author: w4an at contesting.com (Bill Fisher, W4AN)
- Date: Wed Feb 26 10:05:55 2003
- Re: Bi-Annual Subscription Request Contesting.com & eHam.net Users I have been hosting the Contesting.com and eHam.net web sites and mailing lists on my network since 1996. In the beginning, my compa
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00091.html (8,649 bytes)
- 43. Topband: Re: DXpeditions? (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Wed Feb 26 17:32:14 2003
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- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00094.html (6,607 bytes)
- 44. Topband: Phased 2-wire Beverage antennas (score: 1)
- Author: n0tt1@juno.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 05:40:16 -0500
- Thanks to all who replied. To recap, it DOES make a difference on how the two-wire lines are connected in the push-pull (AKA "back fire", "reverse", "near-end" modes) mode becasue one of the antennas
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00019.html (7,091 bytes)
- 45. Topband: Topband Dipole Question (score: 1)
- Author: wpgerhold@elongo.com (Bill Gerhold)
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 14:33:59 -0500
- A dipole that low will only have a radiation pattern straight up no matter what you do with the ends. A dipole will only exhibit directionality when at least 1/2 wave above ground. Bill K2WH -- Strip
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00042.html (6,636 bytes)
- 46. Topband: Skewed paths. (score: 1)
- Author: K3BU@aol.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@ctc.net>)
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:03:17 -0500
- For TopBand Reflector: England that traverses the "radio" auroral oval region, usually suffers absorption and/or unpredictable scattering and does not arrive in Maine. Let's call this the path of "mo
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00120.html (8,286 bytes)
- 47. Topband: Is There A Post Sunrise Peak? (score: 1)
- Author: btippett@alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:34:05 -0500
- I'll add a few comments based mostly on my Colorado days when I had both a decent vertical and an inverted-V at 145'. I very often saw post-sunrise conditions favor the inverted-V, even though pre-su
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00140.html (8,790 bytes)
- 48. Topband: Sunrise/Sunset calculator (score: 1)
- Author: btippett@alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:50:38 -0500
- Here's another which allow you to print daily data for one full year on one piece of legal size paper: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html It also has an on-line reference to look up co
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00158.html (7,051 bytes)
- 49. Topband: K0HA Antennas 2 (score: 1)
- Author: k0ha at navix.net (Bill Hohnstein KØHA)
- Date: Wed Jan 22 06:06:06 2003
- Due to a combination of just receiving a picture with a rare perspective of my antennas and recent discussion of Beverage vs. transmit antenna spacing I thought that I'd offer a link to a picture of
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00184.html (8,666 bytes)
- 50. Topband: New Guidelines for Posting (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Wed Jan 22 06:41:53 2003
- We are now using a new version of Mailman which has created a few start-up problems. Until further notice, messages with the following problems will be bounced back to the sender for editing before t
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00185.html (7,667 bytes)
- 51. Topband: 160m contests - what do you want? (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon Jan 27 11:23:55 2003
- I'll probably regret doing this, but here goes anyway! "Under my view the 10 point for another continent QSO is not really fair when you compare continents with a large amount of stations, like NA an
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00231.html (10,024 bytes)
- 52. Topband: Re: 160m contests - what do you want? (Ford Peterson) (score: 1)
- Author: WMGaines at MarathonOil.com (Gaines, W M (Bill))
- Date: Mon Jan 27 14:16:42 2003
- Geez...and I thought all these years I could actually win a 160 contest from the Midwest. I suppose that if I entered only those contests that I thought I could win I would be sitting on my thumbs a
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00235.html (6,978 bytes)
- 53. Topband: 160m contests - what do you want? (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Mon Jan 27 15:43:25 2003
- Here are a few additional questions from someone who sent me a private E-mail, which also touch on K8BHZ's comments: <Why do we insist on allowing USA-to-USA Qs in a dx contest, let alone in the dx w
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00240.html (9,598 bytes)
- 54. Topband: OOPS! (score: 1)
- Author: btippett at alum.mit.edu (Bill Tippett)
- Date: Tue Jan 28 20:42:32 2003
- I'm still getting used to the new Mailman interface and just accidentally deleted at least one message. If you recently posted something and it doesn't appear, please do so again. BTW, we were having
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00261.html (6,472 bytes)
- 55. Topband: Future Antenna installation. (score: 1)
- Author: k2wh@optonline.net (Bill)
- Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:47:27 +0500
- I will be moving in about 9 months to a new home in a heavily wooded 4 acre, low noise area . I plan to put up a full size 160 meter vertical with an appropriate radial system and a full size 80 mete
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00013.html (7,202 bytes)
- 56. Topband: A92ZE (score: 1)
- Author: Bill@aa6tt.com (William Hein, AA6TT)
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:13:16 -0800 (PST)
- Worked A92ZE last night @ 0212z on 1824-kHz. Very good signal into Vermont. And quite a thrill for me! Bill AA6TT Topsham VT -- William H. Hein, AA6TT 10 Clark Road Topsham VT 05076-3086 USA tel 802/
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00068.html (6,594 bytes)
- 57. Topband: Re: Yaesu FT1000mp Mark V Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: w4an@CONTESTING.COM (Bill Fisher, W4AN)
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 23:26:20 -0500 (EST)
- FWIW, I reported this to the K8XXX team either last year or the year before. Obviously this wasn't a concern to them at least. And, why should it? They produce a really wide signal so that nobody ca
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00139.html (9,072 bytes)
- 58. Topband: Re: Yaesu FT1000mp Mark V Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: w4an@contesting.com (Bill Fisher, W4AN)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:27:12 -0500
- FWIW, I reported this to the K8XXX team either last year or the year before. Obviously this wasn't a concern to them at least. And, why should it? They produce a really wide signal so that nobody ca
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00142.html (9,565 bytes)
- 59. Topband: Re: Yaesu FT1000mp Mark V Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: k6se@juno.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:27:14 -0500
- "Now if only we could find a company to step up to the plate......." == Most, if not all, of Kenwood's radios are click-free, although they do not currently manufacture a competition-grade radio. Ten
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00143.html (9,049 bytes)
- 60. Topband: Finding power line noise (score: 1)
- Author: k2wh@optonline.net (Bill)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:21:59 -0500
- What you suggest / recommend could very easily cause a person to get electrocuted or seriously hurt. If indeed current was flowing down the pole (I have never seen this in the field in 33 years), alo
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00170.html (7,316 bytes)
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