- 21. Topband: Trying To Make Sense Of It All...EPILOGUE (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:17:21 -0500
- Good Afternoon All, Eagle-eyed spotters Tom, Jim, Bob, & Gary rightfully confirmed that there are, indeed, FAT FINGERS at work at VE3CUI -- I apologize profusely for my having royally screwed-up earl
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00321.html (7,430 bytes)
- 22. Topband: Yet MORE 160 Propagation Indices (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:09:54 -0500
- Good Evening All, Yet another useful TopBand forecasting tool -- if you regularly miss hearing the "...18-minutes-after-the-top-of-the-hour" WWV propagation forecast, as I so often do here due to dis
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00323.html (7,338 bytes)
- 23. Topband: 160 Condx - Monday Night (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:53:51 -0500
- Good Evening All, Well, I'm working EVERYTHING that I can hear to-night -- even the 449 signals from eastern Europe! -- and yet the Natural Resources Canada website magnetic observation charts are al
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00331.html (6,931 bytes)
- 24. Topband: Robert Tail Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:39:23 -0500
- Good Morning All, Well, I spent the better part of the late morning/early afternoon yesterday casting a discarded window crank(!) weight off of my '78 Trans Am into a tree of choice, with my Zebco 33
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00354.html (7,976 bytes)
- 25. Topband: 160-Meter Key Klix (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:03:23 -0500
- Good Afternoon All, Ah, the price of success...! Now that I've got a better transmitting antenna here for Topband, my extra signal strength around the continent has raised comments that my Icom 751A
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00365.html (8,494 bytes)
- 26. Topband: Key Clix EPILOGUE...? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:24:10 -0500
- Good Morning All, The static-ridden, summer-like wx here in VE3 basically kept me QRT for most of the past 24 hours, but Carl (AA4H) managed to hear me in QSO with VE1-land this morning -- and with a
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00377.html (7,175 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Conditions(?) In "VE3"-Land... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:38:59 -0500
- In a word...? Crappy! The warmer wx that has settled-in on us here has meant little more than noise & static crashes coming through the 'phones for two days now... And the meteorological (sp?) folks
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00402.html (7,144 bytes)
- 28. Topband: Conditions on Tuesday... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:38:33 -0500
- Evening All, I had a feeling in my bones that 160 would yield some goodies last night... The solar wind was less than 300 kms, the "A" & "K" indices were each never higher than one (at a point earlie
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00150.html (7,346 bytes)
- 29. Re: Topband: Discharging static (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:37:04 -0500
- feed point, sufficient? Hi Jim, I can't see why it shouldn't be sufficient -- I used to place an old surplus 2.5 mh. RF choke right from my Beverage to ground (back when that antenna was 1600' long)
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00179.html (7,847 bytes)
- 30. Re: Topband: KLIX, SPURS and FRONT END SAVERS (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:07:29 -0500
- Hi Bill et al, Your point is most certainly well taken... Whereas the Yaesu FT-980's "...separate receiving antenna port" automatically grounds any separate receiving antenna when transmitting, that
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00217.html (8,154 bytes)
- 31. Topband: Fw: ABOUT INV L ANTENNAS ON 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:02:24 -0500
- carbonium fiber pole collapsed!I have to move the whole antenna into another field where i have not room for the orizontal inv L,so i have to made a T design with the 2 wires sloping about 30°( a
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00239.html (8,047 bytes)
- 32. Topband: CQ WW 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:14:39 -0500
- Good Morning All, VERY interesting to have heard several truly outstanding signals here, some TWO PLUS hours after local sunrise! And I'm not just talking from New York State, either -- I worked Texa
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00391.html (6,548 bytes)
- 33. Re: Topband: Contesting observations (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:12:25 -0500
- duty 8msec their True enough, Barry, but sadly, far too few us know how to actually REMEDY specifically that which ails our clicky rigs...! The influx of reasonably-priced micro-processor controlled
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00036.html (8,326 bytes)
- 34. Topband: ARRL DX Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 07:34:16 -0500
- Good Morning All, Well, just some very casual search & pounce type work here, but it's netted me 41 QSOs with 29 DXCC countries thus far...I'm happy. The Caribbean seems to be fairly well represented
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00172.html (6,601 bytes)
- 35. Re: Topband: Loop discussion (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 06:32:26 -0500
- smoke 16, (V=n ** ...I only wish we could generate a good thread here re. GROUNDED "half-loops" for transmitting...! THAT application seems to be an obscure one, and save for the minutest of details
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-05/msg00051.html (8,230 bytes)
- 36. Topband: Two Element Phased "L's" (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:28:20 -0500
- Good Afternoon Guys, I was pondering the logistics of raising a tower in the midst of the "bog" in my back yard, when it dawned on me that I have some nice, strategically spaced trees to the east of
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-06/msg00075.html (7,846 bytes)
- 37. Topband: Winter's Dreams, Summer's Schemes...! (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:23:36 -0500
- Good Sunny Afternoon All, I've just come from the out-of-doors with an absolute epiphamy (sp?) as to what I'm going to erect this season to support my 160-meter DX'ing activities... The trees & one t
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-07/msg00008.html (8,311 bytes)
- 38. Topband: South Pacific (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:09:47 -0500
- Man oh man, but it sure was nice to hear the "ZL's" pounding-in Q-5 style on TopBand at sunrise this morning on my K9AY! Made me wish I had something up for a transmitting antenna (hurry end-of-Octob
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00094.html (6,360 bytes)
- 39. Re: Topband: Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:36:21 -0500
- is them??? ** Hi Chuck, In the early 90's, Doug DeMaw had a piece in QST called "The Beverage Antenna Re-visited" (or SOMETHING like that, anyway!)... As part of the piece, I recall he had an insert
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00114.html (8,072 bytes)
- 40. Topband: On Using RG-6 Coaxial Cable... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Swynar" <gswynar@durham.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:08:17 -0500
- Good Morning All, What joy to hear the band so quiet as it is this morning, AND to be able to copy -- quite clearly -- both ZL and VK land as they rolled into the clutches of my K9AY loop...! But I d
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00027.html (8,200 bytes)
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