- 21. Topband: Center fed beverage transformer (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:39:51 -0600
- Hello I have a pair of Beverages arranged in a T. One is fed at the end forming the T. The other, the top bar of the T, I plan to center feed. Misek's book implies what I need at the feedpoint is two
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00141.html (6,690 bytes)
- 22. Re: Topband: prop this morning (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:54:36 -0600
- What signals?? 73 Art _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00168.html (6,870 bytes)
- 23. Re: Topband: Beverage antenna ground (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:46:45 -0600
- In our soil (Rocky Mtns) the copper 1 inch pipe does not play. Up here a good way to make a 5 ft pipe into a 6 inch pipe is try to drive it into the ground. What I've been able to do is get copper cl
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00181.html (8,779 bytes)
- 24. Re: Topband: RF Choke for 160m (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:54:54 -0700
- Rag - at 2MHz: 8 turns RG213 single layer on a 6.625 inch diameter tube will give Z=150 ohms. 12 turns single layer on a 4.25 inch tube will give Z=131 ohms. Reference: ARRL antenna book 20th Ed. pag
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00021.html (7,626 bytes)
- 25. Topband: Lesson Learned (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:09:25 -0700
- An important lesson came my way today. My NS Beverage was installed with downleads to the control box of about 4-5 feet, so I would have easy access to the control box and termination resistor (the r
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00202.html (6,673 bytes)
- 26. Topband: More boring reports (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:26:52 -0700
- Last night didn't sound like it would be good to EU. Sigs were weak here so I worked on winding Beverage transformers. Around 0530 HC2/SM7NDX had a really fine signal so maybe now I'll get 160 confir
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00242.html (6,550 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Deploy two receivers - Request for Advice (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:40:22 -0700
- I just got a new rig which contains two complete receivers equal in specification. Now on to effective deployment. I have the capability for a different antenna in each receiver, like transmit GP and
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00006.html (7,130 bytes)
- 28. Topband: Noise (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:12:04 -0700
- I have a noise to find. Periodic 1 sec on, 1 sec off. Audible on 160 and 80. K3 noise blanker takes most of it out. A hash sound. Anyone recognize it? 73 Art _________________________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00036.html (6,516 bytes)
- 29. Re: Topband: Shunt Fed Question (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:01:43 -0700
- My 160 ant for 16 years til 2004 was a 160 ft R45 tower with 15 ft mast and several antennas. At the top was a 52 ft boom homebrew 20. It worked gangbusters on 160. However. It was fed at 32 ft AGL a
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00079.html (8,163 bytes)
- 30. Re: Topband: Nobody can hear me (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:55:07 -0700
- _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00262.html (8,904 bytes)
- 31. Re: Topband: TOPBAND CONDITIONS TO NA (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:16:17 -0700
- Bill I too worked CN3A in daylight at my end here near Allison Colorado. Another great surprise was to have UR2M and SV3RF answer my CQ machine. SV3RF was so loud I thought he was a local for a few d
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00271.html (7,793 bytes)
- 32. Re: Topband: FW5RE and Topband (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:00:53 -0700
- -- Steve I want to give a special thanks to (probably) Laci. For my new country 160M contact Laci left a pileup on 80M at my request to QSY at my SR. Previously he'd been active on TB but not when I
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00050.html (9,988 bytes)
- 33. Re: Topband: QSB surfing (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:26:39 -0700
- Tree...That is my very favorite head position on 160. Quite restful at times. :-) This "K" business is quite obnoxious, I agree completely. It is not useful for someone with better ants or a more adv
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00058.html (7,892 bytes)
- 34. Re: Topband: QSL AND BROADBAND (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:16:03 -0700
- I too use DXKeeper for general purpose logging and N1MM for contesting. Uploading to LoTW is simple as Jim describes. Initially a few years ago I uploaded my log via modem with speed at best 28kb. Th
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00142.html (8,542 bytes)
- 35. Re: Topband: Boring Report (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:06:21 -0600
- Don't know if I qualify as 'midwest' being 50 miles from UT. We think of it as west. Allison was peaking 559/569/QSB around my sunrise and did not fade into noise, as he had been earlier. VFB new one
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00066.html (7,688 bytes)
- 36. Topband: [Fwd: Re: 1.99?] (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:41:03 -0600
- re retuning: Me too. Great idea! In addition to our main bang DXing some of us get in domestic 160 CW contests; would be good to see how that end of the band would play. 73 Art ______________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-04/msg00089.html (7,398 bytes)
- 37. Topband: Gas well pump motor (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 20:49:11 -0600
- Recently this reflector discussed noisy pumps and their cures. Last winter the gas wells on my place were converted to electric motors. Good to say bye bye to the spark plug, bad to say hello to elec
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00002.html (6,854 bytes)
- 38. Topband: Hi band vs low band (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 06:32:56 -0600
- Tree's beacon 8 May 09 Signal Hour 1800.5 1999.5 0202 Q3 Q5 2 min before sunset; Lots of lightning static making S meter reading unreliable. 0414 S3 QSB S8 0515 S6 S9 1215 S3 S7 QSB on both freqs. 18
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00039.html (6,800 bytes)
- 39. Re: Topband: Testing Soil Conductivity (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:14:46 -0600
- ....for example, here: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/m3/index.html 73 Art K6XT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/ma
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-06/msg00039.html (7,798 bytes)
- 40. Topband: K9AY over fence (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:28:11 -0600
- I've got a pair of Beverages now. The local gas companies have recently installed electric motors with PWM controllers that make quite the racket on 160 and 80. They're working with me on quieting al
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-06/msg00045.html (7,371 bytes)
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