- 61. Re: Topband: Stew -vs- 3DA0CC (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 00:13:49 -0500
- The 3DA0 experience was a thriller. Just about the time I was copying Arunas well enough to call him on Wednesday, he went QRT. Heard a few peeps on Thursday and absolutely nothing on Friday. Tonight
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00129.html (9,006 bytes)
- 62. Topband: 3DA0IJ and 3DA0CC on Clublog (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:44:03 -0400
- Both 3DA0IJ and 3DA0CC have posted their logs on Clublog. The stats are interesting: 3DA0IJ 259 Qs on 160mx and 3DA0CC 168 for a total of 427 top band QSOs. They are both to be commended for sticking
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00156.html (6,943 bytes)
- 63. Re: Topband: VK0EK Operation (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:31:05 -0400
- While key clicks were noticeable and QRN/QSB were factors, the real problem for me were the children who kept harassing VK0EKs frequency. Carriers, dits and dahs, all assaulted my eardrums with my RF
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00269.html (7,958 bytes)
- 64. Re: Topband: VK0EK confirmation (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 08:29:36 -0400
- There really is no excuse for bad manners. I know that to be so, because my mother told me. So did my teachers. All of my university degrees do not excuse me from that simple but essential requiremen
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-04/msg00121.html (8,563 bytes)
- 65. Re: Topband: Pixel vs BOG (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:25:04 -0400
- Wow! The BOG blows the Pixel loop away. The loop sounds like my vertical! I wonder if there might be a feedline problem? Surely the loop isn't meant to be that noisy. 73, Ken - K4XL _________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-04/msg00152.html (7,784 bytes)
- 66. Re: Topband: midnight peaks (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:35:43 -0400
- Me too, Bruce. I either work or at least hear and spot the same European regulars. I've always associated it with European sunrise rather than something to do with the midnight hour! 73, Ken - K4XL -
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-09/msg00045.html (8,882 bytes)
- 67. Re: Topband: 160 meter starter antennas (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:00:09 -0400
- 160 is a great band. My first contact was in Texas with 40 watts of AM on a Viking Ranger in 1957 with a station in Kansas. I thought that was great DX. Many years later, with over 200 countries work
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-09/msg00074.html (12,183 bytes)
- 68. Re: Topband: zone 2 (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:26:06 -0500
- Hi Andrzej, I believe that VO2NS in zone 2 is planning to be active in the CQWW CW contest. That wouldn't help with 30 mx, but should with 20 and 80. Powodzenia i 73, Ken - K4XL -- Ken - K4XL BoatAnc
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-11/msg00103.html (7,927 bytes)
- 69. Re: Topband: west coast in the mornings (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:43:57 -0500
- I suspect that lack of receiving antennas is the most likely cause. I noticed the same thing here on the East Coast when trying to work Europeans. Some had very loud signals but couldn't hear very we
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-01/msg00091.html (8,861 bytes)
- 70. Re: Topband: 3C0L (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:09:52 -0400
- I also heard 3C0L well before sundown and called for about 30 minutes. Realizing that he was only coming back to Europeans, who were undoubtedly much louder than I was considering that they were in f
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00086.html (11,314 bytes)
- 71. Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:03:24 -0500
- Thanks for the QSO Roger. If it were not for your exhortation to be on the band on Wednesday evenings, I would have missed a QSO with UK9AA. That's a fairly rare one from this side of the pond. 73, K
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00160.html (9,378 bytes)
- 72. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:11:36 -0400
- There are antennas and there are better antennas. We use what we have and always dream of something better. 73, Ken - K4XL -- Ken - K4XL BoatAnchor Manual Archive BAMA - http://bama.edebris.com _____
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00105.html (10,356 bytes)
- 73. Re: Topband: Radial wire (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 14:21:29 -0400
- If you have a Tractor Supply store near you, the price for 1/4 mile of 17 ga. galvanized electric fence wire is $14.99. You can get 1/2 mile roll for $29.99. Just how long it will last will vary depe
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-09/msg00059.html (12,543 bytes)
- 74. Re: Topband: Radial wire (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:23:27 -0400
- Well, electric fence wire comes in various levels of galvanizing. The cheap stuff such as RedBrand is class 1 and is galvanized to 0.28 oz of zinc per square foot. Bekaert Wire 17ga which is 0.80 oz
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-09/msg00070.html (11,093 bytes)
- 75. Re: Topband: ARRL DXCC - 160 Meters & Daytime 40-meter DX (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:43:59 -0500
- I hasten to point out the obvious, that 40 meters and 160 meters are two different kettles of fish! Lots of DX on 40 at mid-day doesn't translate too well to 160. And while I agree with Clive, GM3POI
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-11/msg00200.html (10,225 bytes)
- 76. Re: Topband: CQ160 Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:52:03 -0500
- I agree that conditions were a long way from being ideal. Friday was less ideal than Saturday. However, from here in Virginia I managed to work 20 sixes, 33 sevens and 60 fives and that with a very g
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-01/msg00151.html (8,687 bytes)
- 77. Topband: Fwd: YCCC 9 circle/5 square (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:12:41 -0500
- Here is a possibility: https://www.pi4cc.nl/tech-info/rx-array/ 73, Ken - K4XL -- Ken - K4XL BoatAnchor Manual Archive BAMA - http://bama.edebris.com -- Ken - K4XL BoatAnchor Manual Archive BAMA - ht
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00192.html (7,929 bytes)
- 78. Re: Topband: XR0ZRC? (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:37:23 -0400
- The big difference, as I recall, between XR0ZR and XR0ZRC is the timing. ZR was in November, a month that was better for all concerned with regard to QRN as their 160 total demonstrates. 73, Ken - K4
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-03/msg00121.html (12,010 bytes)
- 79. Re: Topband: XR0ZRC? (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:05:15 -0400
- Yes, Herb, and I'm afraid that the Bouvet expedition is going to have similar QRN problems. Fingers crossed! 73, Ken - K4XL -- Ken - K4XL BoatAnchor Manual Archive BAMA - http://bama.edebris.com ____
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-03/msg00123.html (14,878 bytes)
- 80. Re: Topband: PreStew coming next weekend (score: 1)
- Author: Kenneth Grimm <grimm@sbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:07:58 -0400
- Nick, when you called me, you were very readable and easy copy. I think I even said "good sig" or something like that. You should have had no difficulty running. I agree that the problem wsn't with y
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-10/msg00162.html (10,751 bytes)
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