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81. Re: Topband: W1AW (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:58:15 -0500
1840 would make a nice band-edge marker perhaps to alert the SSB guys they are sliding too low. But they might also cover up some DX there. 1800.5 would have little impact on DX, still comply with th
/archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00122.html (8,178 bytes)

82. Re: Topband: Boring report - it's not dead yet -- nor in Delaware (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:12:16 -0400
On way home in the mobile around 05z I heard G3JMJ through the QRN and caught a /7 several times so I guess it was George or Tree in there calling Don but those were the only signals on the band and
/archives//html/Topband/2006-04/msg00010.html (8,097 bytes)

83. Re: Topband: Base Insulators for Verticals (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:36:46 -0400
I have used old power line insulators. They will hold a whole tower. Pix of the 160m driven element here under "towers.": www.aa1k.us. I have four towers using similar insulators. One set had been li
/archives//html/Topband/2006-06/msg00058.html (7,652 bytes)

84. Topband: C9 QRV 160? (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:08:44 -0400
Anyone know when the current C9 operation will be QRV on Top? 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailm
/archives//html/Topband/2006-07/msg00000.html (5,714 bytes)

85. Topband: W5YU SK (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:15:08 -0400
From the Daily DX: Silent Keys ______________________________________________________________________ -- Otto was also a regular on 160m chasing DX over the years. In the '80s and '90s we often worke
/archives//html/Topband/2006-07/msg00005.html (6,937 bytes)

86. Re: Topband: Base Insulators for Verticals (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:40:37 -0400
I have several towers using 6-8 inch diameter power line ceramic insulators at the base. Any one of these would support the tower, but using three meant I could use one under each leg rather than ha
/archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00014.html (8,299 bytes)

87. Re: Topband: RG-6 Coaxial Cable... (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:58:47 -0400
RG6 works fine for transmitting at 1.5 KW. KM1H tipped me off to this back in the '80s and I started using some -- scrounged from the scrap pile at a local CATV yard -- for my 80 and 40 m delta loop
/archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00058.html (8,831 bytes)

88. Topband: Delaware report (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 07:22:41 -0400
This morning was the first in several days that I made it to the shack for sunrise. The band was pretty quiet, though initially heard no DX coming through. But that quickly changed as VK3ZL called in
/archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00117.html (6,929 bytes)

89. Re: Topband: short beverages (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 07:16:28 -0500
In the '90s at a previous QTH north of Wilmington, Del., I tried a 130 foot "Beverage" just one foot above the ground, in the bottom of a V-shaped drainage ditch about 10 feet deep, aimed toward Euro
/archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00019.html (8,692 bytes)

90. Topband: plasma TV RFI? (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:05:49 -0500
Anyone have experience with RFI from a Plasma TV? I recently started having garbage interference on 160 .... loud broad buzz around 1812-1813 khz and further up the band every 10 khz or so .... i DF'
/archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00011.html (6,822 bytes)

91. Re: Topband: ARRL 160M Contest (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:15:08 -0500
Congrats Milt on the WAS and JT! ........I had 49 states the first night including KL7 but didn't get ND till N0UD called me early Sunday.....still missing VE4, KP4 and VE8......I've done the WAS in
/archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00013.html (7,995 bytes)

92. Re: Topband: snow effect (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:15:55 -0500
I've never noticed any change with snow on the ground here at the home station, but one of my best nights of mobile DXing on 160 occurred in a snowstorm a year or so ago, when I worked a couple of Eu
/archives//html/Topband/2007-02/msg00015.html (6,913 bytes)

93. Re: Topband: Beverages (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:59:59 -0500
My Beverages all go through thick woods. I use bright orange surveyors' tape and a hand-bearing marine compass to mark the route before stringing the wire. The tape is placed around trees every 50 fe
/archives//html/Topband/2007-02/msg00257.html (7,832 bytes)

94. Re: Topband: guy line breaking ... (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:28:39 -0400
I have 6 towers, most around 100 feet tall. The steel guys are broken with insulators, with non-resonant lengths of 58 feet and 39 feet.These were taken from a chart in the ARRL antenna book a few ye
/archives//html/Topband/2007-03/msg00056.html (8,376 bytes)

95. Topband: N8S and DU9 (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:21:51 -0400
I worked N8S at 1010z today.....they were on 1827, QSX up 1. They were having trouble copying me -- took a couple of repeats till they got my call OK. I was using single-wire 280-degree Beverage abou
/archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00032.html (6,568 bytes)

96. Re: Topband: K6SE SK (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:19:32 -0400
From Earl's listing on QRZ.com: Previous Callsigns: W8DGP - 1955 to 1968 KL7FRY - 1966 to 1967 W5RTQ - 1968 to 1976 K6SE - 1976 to present -- Topbanders.com lists Earl as having 197 countries on Top
/archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00146.html (8,481 bytes)

97. Topband: UK8DAN QSL card fast service (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:21:03 -0400
A number of us who worked UK8DAN this season were pondering the best route for the QSL (and some were reporting long delays). Mine arrived yesterday, via manager RW6HS. QSO was Feb. 27, but it probab
/archives//html/Topband/2007-06/msg00014.html (6,407 bytes)

98. Topband: Let the "season" begin (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:02:07 -0400
It was a pleasant surprise to have JL8GFB and JA8ISU answer my CQs this morning 1000-1010z -- a few minutes before my sunrise.Both had signals peaking 569 through some QRN. Both complained of QRM the
/archives//html/Topband/2007-08/msg00046.html (6,876 bytes)

99. Re: Topband: 160m portable operating (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:05:38 -0400
Hi Steve, Sounds like you have some nice room to play with ... A dozen will get you started, 30 is good, 60 is 95 percent of optimum, and 120 is the broadcast-industry "standard." 200 just gets you b
/archives//html/Topband/2007-09/msg00077.html (10,187 bytes)

100. Re: Topband: Digi transmitter spur] (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:36:43 -0400
At 0645-0655z today (9/23) I am hearing the spurs Tom W8JI mentioned on 1814 and 1832.4. They are only S4-S5 or so on a fairly quiet band. I hear them on the 205, 245 and 280-degree Beverages but the
/archives//html/Topband/2007-09/msg00147.html (6,525 bytes)

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