Gents The gas company has now installed shielded cables. As far as I know that is all they've done so far. The shielded cables had no effect on noise amplitude. While RG8 etc could be useful in some
My 80/160 GP doesn't seem to need much matching, or with a feed Z around 35 ohms on 80 I'm just too lazy. The amps load fine at the far end of 300 ft of coax. So I wound a 85mH coil installed from fe
Looks like LDG is going out of the switch business: http://www.ldgelectronics.com/c/252/products/4/18/1 73 Art _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.
I wasn't able to do anything more with Andy than listen to you guys working him. Maybe this year! 73 Art _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com ht
Par Electronics makes a very good BC filter. Easily meets specs in 50 ohms according to my swept analyzer. http://www.parelectronics.com/bcst-hpf.htm 73 Art __________________________________________
I use exactly that, a full size 10 ft high 160 dipole. It is fed with 75 ohm coax and 100 beads at the feed point. Its effectiveness depends on the signal -- and I'm not about to take it down. (Other
Ken I second all Pete's comments. I've been buying 17 gage in 1/4 and 1/2 mile rolls for some years. It works very well as long as a couple things are attended to. As Rick points out it likes to curl
Somehow I missed the ON5ZO post so replying to K2AV's reply: I am using just such an antenna. I have a full size 80 ground plane currently with 18 quarter wave 80M radials attached 15 ft from ground.
As I said weeks earlier in this thread..my Par BCB filter works great. My BCB attenuation measurements are per his specs on my swept SA. The BC band falls off a cliff below 1800. Is it perfect? Of co
What receiver bandwidth? Its important to know for comparisons, the NF difference between a 3KHz SSB filter and a 300Hz CW filter should be 10dB. Or you could normalize it to 1Hz. 73 Art ____________
I agree wholeheartedly with Mike. I agree wholeheartedly with Tree. 73 Art _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mail
Except that K4M devoted much effort to, and did in fact work a number of west EU stations on topband. Someone tallied them up earlier. Do I recall 150+ QSO's? Surely FT5GA (which would have been new
I can't quite agree on the leaderboard business. Some of us simply don't enjoy operating some modes. Thus we'll never see the top of a leaderboard. In any case IMHO that's not what constitutes a "goo
Dave Here's one analysis, I do hope the formatting comes thru so you can see how many Q's per zone. I do not know what you think of as western EU. To many if not most around here it includes Z14, 15,
I operate RTTY. I'm very happy that RTTY contests exclude 160M for the simple reasons that: 1) I would never operate RTTY below 1850 out of respect for CW DX activity in that area. Many of these guys
I'm with Joe. I both contest, and DX on top band. There's nothing to compensate for location location location. I sit around evenings listening to (or ON4KST watching) EC stations slurp up the choice
I operated 160 AM mobile with an Elmac (sp?) pair setup when I was a kid. Not recommended for prime time but great stuff and good participation back then. 73 Art _____________________________________
And even with the pain some go through to beat LoTW into submission, its a lot less work than paper QSLing. Only has to be correctly set up once. 73 Art -- Original Message -- Subject: Re: Topband: q
For me this nails it right on the head. I was there this AM when Mr. Tuner showed up on TX3A. Fortunately I'd already worked them. Fortunate because Mr. Tuner was lots louder. I cannot believe it was
And one of those times should be at the END of the DX station's report. All too often someone is still calling on the DX freq when a QSO starts. XR0Y QRZ K6XT K6XT K6XT 599 K6XT K XR0Y tu 599 73 Like