- 61. Re: Topband: Real RST (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:18:37 -0700
- This debate goes on forever and leaves out some very important factoids. First let me pontificate on the past. Yesteryear when the RST system was born many receivers had no S meter. A report was as d
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-11/msg00150.html (9,343 bytes)
- 62. Re: Topband: TX3A this morning (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:17:50 -0700
- At my place their 160M signal was much weaker today than on 3rd when I got lucky (getting up at 2AM maybe helped). I could copy no more than 60 or 70 %. It seemed to me TX3A was having receive troubl
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-11/msg00174.html (7,773 bytes)
- 63. Re: Topband: First JA !. . .NB report. (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:40:29 -0700
- Unfortunately we can rant on about this heinous practice but it doesn't seem to help. As in my rant over J5C in 07. Some of the same players (not all, the mix changes) just keep on QRMing on. And tea
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-11/msg00243.html (7,895 bytes)
- 64. Re: Topband: K3 vs IC7600 (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:09:41 -0700
- It does not. Regarding the other posts on this thread (K3 vs 7800 etc) the 7600 performance suffers badly by comparison to the 7800, much less a K3. I used a 7600 guest op in a recent CW contest, and
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-12/msg00035.html (7,596 bytes)
- 65. Topband: [Fwd: Re: CQ Zone 2 160 activity] (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:55:12 -0700
- VE2IM is another. I've worked him 15 times on various bands, always in the CQWW CW. Here's a listing of Zone 2 stations CQ knows about, and also some who appear to be but are not: http://www.dxmarath
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00138.html (7,030 bytes)
- 66. Topband: Equal opportunity (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:56:58 -0700
- In the just concluded CQWW 160M CW contest I was told "no dupes" by a multiplier DX station. The DX op would not complete the QSO. Timing wise there is no doubt who the DX was telling "no dupes". I h
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00002.html (7,480 bytes)
- 67. Re: Topband: [Fwd: Re: Equal opportunity] (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:27:52 -0700
- Again I say: This has nothing to do with my original post which I invite you to re-read. I regret in the strongest possible terms ever using the word "dupe" in my post. With respect to my post I urge
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00034.html (12,119 bytes)
- 68. Re: Topband: Blind luck (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:52:34 -0700
- Indeed it is. Ilya was barely audible for a half hour then all of a sudden popped up 10 minutes after his SR. I logged him at 0439 for a new one. 73 Art ______________________________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00058.html (6,778 bytes)
- 69. Re: Topband: SDR-IQ experience during CQ 160 contest (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:06:40 -0700
- I use K3 and 765 in my setup. Like Tree and others I've recently added SDR-IQ. It has two great advantages that I can see. with CW Skimmer it copies calls, and it copies them all over the band at onc
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00076.html (8,970 bytes)
- 70. Re: Topband: I am not dead yet - Boring Report (score: 1)
- Author: Art <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:25:06 -0700
- Seconded. The past 2 mornings from an hour before and through my sunrise YC0LOW XU7ACY are better than I've ever heard them (that is to say, clearly readable), and 9M6YBG popped up. Several W5's foun
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00135.html (7,458 bytes)
- 71. Topband: Fluorescent lights (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:03:16 -0700
- This weekend I discovered noise from a set of 8 foot long fixtures. What's the usual source, ballast controller, the bulb itself or ?. And the best plan of attack (other than turning out the lights).
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00178.html (6,556 bytes)
- 72. Re: Topband: Magic Antenna Land (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:15:04 -0700
- 73 Art -- 73 Art Allison, Colorado "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." --Henry Ford. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00001.html (10,194 bytes)
- 73. Re: Topband: Band coming alive (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:49:35 -0600
- Not that this will help much with the usual UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK reports since those sigs are often 20dB into the noise. Some of us which includes me will be running a SDR and CW Sk
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-08/msg00053.html (9,530 bytes)
- 74. Topband: Low bands coming alive in CO (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:50:50 -0600
- Still busy dodging lightning but cdx are improving fast. Worked Dave KH2/N2NL on 1817.5 and YJ0VK on 3511 this AM. Dave was well above the lightning could even copy him fairly well on the tx GP. Hear
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-08/msg00064.html (6,912 bytes)
- 75. Topband: Fwd: Re: Pneumatic device for throwing antenna wire over the top ofa tree (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:39:06 -0600
- Not to mention, plastic pipe can be dangerous when gas-pressurized. If the pipe fails, gas decompression fires pieces of pipe like bullets. Not that I don't use it myself, just worth noting. If the p
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-10/msg00054.html (7,803 bytes)
- 76. Re: Topband: Elevated Radials (score: 1)
- Author: Art K6XT <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:03:40 -0600
- My 160 ant is a 1/4 wave 80M GP. A 1/8 wave GP. Currently 18 radials, all 1/8 wave on 160, which begin at 15 ft, end more or less 10 ft. Seeking ways to optimize flexibility I turned to EZNEC, discov
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-10/msg00141.html (22,311 bytes)
- 77. Topband: 7O6T QRM (score: 1)
- Author: k6xt <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 13:10:19 -0600
- Or the hams, trying to be nice, who send "sri" or whatever on advice they're on the wrong VFO, thus creating more QRM. Well at least they're trying to be nice. Words of the day: Just SHUT UP and QSY.
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-05/msg00144.html (7,826 bytes)
- 78. Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 114, Issue 3 (score: 1)
- Author: k6xt <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:24:59 -0600
- Our (K6XT, XYL W0MOE) condolences to Mike's family. I really enjoyed chasing TB DX and being on chat with Mike. RIP OM. 73 Art K6XT~~ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthus
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00017.html (7,497 bytes)
- 79. Re: Topband: 7O6T QSL (score: 1)
- Author: k6xt <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 08:49:50 -0600
- I've had that situation a couple times: Contribute before OQRS is set up. So far sending email to the QSL contact person explaining what happened has worked to sync the donation with the QSL cards or
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00070.html (6,591 bytes)
- 80. Re: Topband: DX Window (score: 1)
- Author: k6xt <k6xt@arrl.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:51:19 -0600
- Out west in flyover country we rue the day. Tom is spot on. I too stay out of 30-35 for CQing so my western brethren can potentially hear something. Very unfortunate to have the 30-35 window, which m
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-08/msg00349.html (7,099 bytes)
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