- 1. Re: Topband: ZL6QH in CQ WW 160m (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:17:58 +0000
- I worked them at my sunrise on Sunday for my first ZL in the log. I am 9.22 W so my sunrise is later than much of the rest of Europe. You can read their report on the contest on the 3830 list here ht
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-02/msg00004.html (7,619 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Powering a 26.5 V relay from 12 V (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:02:45 +0100
- I have used this hack to power 26v Relays from 12V with good success 73 Brendan EI6IZ _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-03/msg00187.html (7,441 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Rigs for top band (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:45:02 +0100
- I have a 7800 with the 3Khz roofing filters. It's a very good rig, my previous ICOM was a 756pro Mk2 which was quite inferior to my K2 on 160m A well setup K2 is also very good radio for top band how
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-08/msg00087.html (9,681 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Need More Help Getting rid of Router Birdies (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:02:49 +0000
- Carefully verify this as any single run out out of 'pair' will be a serious noise source http://www.incentre.net/incentre/frame/ethernet.html There is no ground wire in cat 5, it consists of 4 balanc
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00107.html (17,514 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: VP9RI on 160m ...Hmmmm? (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:58:02 +0100
- I worked VP9RI last night too. It all seemed a bit odd frankly. No mention of VP9RI on any band or mode in the past on the dxclsuter system. He was stronger on my East facing beverage than my west fa
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-08/msg00077.html (8,078 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Deep earth rod vs radials (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:47:16 +0000
- Salt water is an excellent conductor compared with the earth and works very well under HF antennas, it is however a poor conductor compared to copper. Like all conductors Salt-water exhibits the skin
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00041.html (9,691 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: K3 vs IC7600 (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:10:55 +0000
- I had a 7800 (version with the 3KHz roofing filter) here for around 2 years. For nearly a year it was side by side with the K3. Under CW contest conditions the K3 outperformed the 7800 and that's bef
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-12/msg00028.html (8,341 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: swr protection schematic 160m? (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:40:55 +0100
- Another option is the LP100, it's available as a kit or ready made http://www.telepostinc.com/lp100.html it's pretty easy to calibrate the kit accurately for SWR, accurate absolute power calibration
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00032.html (9,377 bytes)
- 9. Topband: radials (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:22:36 +0000
- Under my 1/4 wave Inverted L (~18M vertical section) I have a mix of buried radials and radials lying on the grass (for the winter months only) In total there are around 20 radials with lengths of be
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00011.html (7,373 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: To Topband Contesters ( 1 Day After) (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:18:39 +0000
- Keyclicks remain a big issue, Some of the worst offenders are also big contesting stations who come near the top of the results tables every year. One cannot help wondering if a certain amount of 'ke
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00016.html (8,276 bytes)
- 11. Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating' (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:38:27 +0000
- Hello all I have a Software Defined Receiver (SDR) that I make available when I am not using it for others to use. it's an SDR-14 and is usually connected to one of my beverages via a multi-coupler s
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00082.html (7,598 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating' (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:42:33 +0000
- A few people have suggested a delay BUT I would hate to see this implemented just to manage a problem of a few people who use real-time access to an SDR to 'cheat' at amateur radio award chasing. The
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00099.html (10,121 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: WEB SDR's (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:48:50 +0000
- A built in delay may work fine for WEB SDR's with fixed coverage of one or more amateur bands. It DOES NOT work at all for SDR's that can be remotley controlled, covering the entire LF-HF spectrum, t
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00112.html (8,155 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: Remote Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:54:03 +0000
- No, a delay won't work, these are interactive SDr's not web sdr's, a delay would make tuning nearly impossible, why impose this on all the users, just because a tiny minority abuse the system, My SDR
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00131.html (7,455 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating' (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 16:45:16 +0000
- Well, lets not split hairs The station in question was from a sought after DXCC entity (on 160m SSB anyway) and was working a pileup of stations calling him using my SDR, located ~ 4000Km closer to h
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00132.html (9,237 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: Inverted L Proximity to RX Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:00:12 +0000
- I know it's a different answer... but Be careful about RF coming back in on the RX antenna to the radio, Some radios have issues with even quite low levels (~100mW) comiing in the RX antenna port. th
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00153.html (8,527 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: water saturated ground effect-MA160 (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:40:11 +0100
- Herb Salt water is a conductor (but not a very good once compared with copper ) Like all conductors salt water will exhibit skin effect so radials IN the water may not be working as well as they shou
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-07/msg00025.html (12,835 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: Is the beverage working, asked the newbie to 160? (score: 1)
- Author: Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:23:11 +0100
- As do my beverages, I use my beverages almost all the time with my k3 in diversity mode on 20m - 160m They are also reasonably useful in diversity on 17m if signals are fairly strong. -- 73 Brendan E
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-09/msg00016.html (7,157 bytes)
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