- 41. TopBand: HEARD better on xmit antenna, propagation (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:35:40 -0900 (AKST)
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Relocatable-Over-the-Horizon Radar (operated at HF) and we always got earth returns unless there was a blanketing E layer. At times we printed nice color pictures of the
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00402.html (9,870 bytes)
- 42. TopBand: 160 - WOW! (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:55:00 -0900 (AKST)
- Here's the KL7Y scenario for the ARRL 160: South America - nil; Caribbean and Central America - virtually nil; Oceania - they must be all ogling bikinis instead of working the radios; Asia- JA's down
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-12/msg00180.html (8,502 bytes)
- 43. TopBand: Arctic KL7's (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:01:32 -0900 (AKST)
- I talked to AL7O (ex-AL7BL) who is one of the ops at Prudhoe Bay in the Alaskan Arctic. Their 160 meter efforts have been curtailed some because their amplifier quit working. They still hear plenty o
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-12/msg00374.html (6,998 bytes)
- 44. TopBand: HS on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 22:39:56 -0900 (AKST)
- I just got back from Thailand where I was able to put HS1AZ on 160 for a limited time. I'll post more details when I get caught up on everything. QSLs for HS1AZ go ONLY to K6VNX. Expect the usual del
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00051.html (6,604 bytes)
- 45. TopBand: HS on 160 (long) (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:15:11 -0900 (AKST)
- Here's the story of the recent HS1AZ operation on 160 meters. N6AA, N6ZZ, W6MKB, W6XD, AB6BH, OH2KI and KL7Y went to Thailand to operate the CQ WW SSB contest. We had requested the call HS1AZ for the
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00068.html (13,969 bytes)
- 46. TopBand: IG9/IV3TAN (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:38:43 -0900 (AKST)
- Yes, the IG9 on 160 was really loud at HS1AZ and stayed loud all night. He was at least 15-20 db louder than any European. I worked him easily when he first appeared on the band at HS - he was only u
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00160.html (6,870 bytes)
- 47. TopBand: Hill vs ocean (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:15:02 -0900 (AKST)
- If the frequency in question is only 1.8 mHz, then I vote for ocean. Here's one example: When I worked at Endicott Island in the Arctic Ocean it was common to listen to the AM broadcast band on the c
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00216.html (7,894 bytes)
- 48. TopBand: XZ1N decent sigs (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:07:44 -0900 (AKST)
- XZ1N was quite audible this AM on 160. First heard him around 1430Z (Thurs) about 339. By 1500Z he was a solid 559 on peaks and still copiable during fades. By 1515Z he had faded some and was startin
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00302.html (6,844 bytes)
- 49. TopBand: XZ1N (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:04:18 -0900 (AKST)
- Last two mornings XZ1N has peaked 579 - still no QSO. He said "Noise is killing me." Oh well. Dan KL7Y -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/topband.html Submissions: topband@contesting.com Admini
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00334.html (6,987 bytes)
- 50. TopBand: XZ1N finally (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:51:23 -0900 (AKST)
- I noticed that right after posting a message about how you hear somebody loud and still can't work them (N6TR and ZS4TX, to wit) that you then go on to work them. Amazing! XZ1N finally heard me at 16
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00336.html (6,552 bytes)
- 51. TopBand: Inverted V antenna on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 19:55:39 -0800
- Dunno about this. My inverted vee usually stomps my big vertical. And the inverted vee is only up about 150'. Almost every USA station I've ever worked has been on the inverted vee. Model an inverted
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-10/msg00066.html (8,484 bytes)
- 52. TopBand: Who opened the gate? (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:36:28 -0800
- Who opened that gate and let the DX in? There I was bemoaning the lack of DX on 160 when suddenly the band opened and I snagged 6 Europeans and J38. Now this is more like it! There were at least 6 KL
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-10/msg00086.html (6,592 bytes)
- 53. TopBand: Heard Is 160 (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:32:25 -0800
- Bill, W0ZV, made some good comments about the upcoming Heard Island DXpedition and Top Band. Let me look at another aspect: Heard Island is very close to the southern auroral oval. In this respect it
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-10/msg00187.html (9,139 bytes)
- 54. TopBand: LORAN A on 1850 (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 10:30:10 -0800
- Watt, Very glad to hear that noisemaker is going off of the air. Maybe you JAs can now get some more frequencies in the 160 meter band. That Loran was very bad here - it was even audible to 1830 or b
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-09/msg00111.html (7,490 bytes)
- 55. TopBand: L's and T's (score: 1)
- Author: kl7y@alaska.net (Dan Robbins)
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:02:37 -0800
- When one can't have a full quarter wave vertical on 160, the inverted L is certainly an able substitute. Two things happen when part of the quarter wave is bent over into the horizontal - the impedan
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-09/msg00258.html (8,307 bytes)
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