- 1. Topband: Receivers for 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Don Field" <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:02:33 +0000
- Interesting thread on this subject. Seems to me the problem is that the manufacturers design modern transceivers to be all things to all men. I recall discussing this with the editor of CQ Ham Radio
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- 2. Re: Topband: FW: T32C 160 Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 04:51:19 +0000
- Indeed so. An 18m Spiderpole, but the top sections are a little thin to support the top loading, so it is attached at the 15m level. For receive we have Beverages (about 650ft) to EU/NA and to JA. 16
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- 3. Re: Topband: LOTW Participation (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:40:44 +0000
- Two different things! In my role as RadCom HF columnist, I recently had an email from a correspondent, bewailing the fact that his much coveted QSL cards had gone astray in the mail on the way back f
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- 4. Re: Topband: Antarctica (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:18:28 +0000
- Just to show how things have changed, when Richard VP8ANT (G3CWI) was at Rothera Base with the British Antarctic Survey, one of his topband activities was an entry in CQWW 160, in which he made a cre
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- 5. Re: Topband: The use of digital modes on 160 metres (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:27:43 +0100
- The discussion seems to have moved away from the initial question which was, as I recall, whether digital modes had the means to expand DX opportunities on 160. Yes, there are questions about bandpla
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-09/msg00156.html (10,854 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: ALUMINUM (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 15:47:54 +0000
- For what it's worth, for T32C, because our container never arrived, we bought lots of alumin(i)um wire in KH6 for radials. In the saltwater atmosphere close to the beach at T32, they lasted less than
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- 7. Re: Topband: 3B9EME (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:49:41 +0100
- We worked quite a lot of Stateside on 160 from 3B9C (2004). On the way back we met up with Jacky in Port Louis and talked to him about 160 (I had worked Jacky on topband from home back in the 80's, l
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- 8. Re: Topband: W1BB (NOT K1BB, whoever that is) (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:54:15 +0000
- And don't forget Stew's hand typed and duplicated 160m bulletins, usually sent out with a personal handwritten note of encouragement. Roger G3RBP/VE3ZI and I kept it going for a few years after Stew
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- 9. Re: Topband: FT8 qrm (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:38:18 +0000
- I've been watching this thread with interest, having recently taken the plunge and experimented with FT8 (but got bored very quickly!). Three comments on aspects that I don't think have been covered:
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- 10. Re: Topband: Experiences with toploaded vertical with spiderbeam pole? (score: 1)
- Author: Don Field <don.field@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:56:36 +0000
- Henk Don't spend 139 Euro on a piece of wire! For DXpeditions (ZL7G, ZC4A, TX6G, etc, etc) we use an 18m Spiderpole with T loading. But we take out the top section (maybe the top two, I forget) becau
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-02/msg00144.html (8,698 bytes)
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