Hi, Sun is quite, no auroras, low K, but all signals from NA (starting from CM6RCR to NL7Z) were coming from 270 deg (on 220 m BV laying under snow) instead right 320 direction all the night. Almost
Hi, I think I saw announcements that current ZD8 expedition will be active on 160 m, but didn't see any spots on cluster. What is the latest information? Arunas / LY2IJ ______________________________
Hi, Did anybody try to compare 2 twisted wires (or coax) swithcable Beverage ant to the same lenght single Beverage? What are the reasons to have 2 Beverages instead of one with slightly more complic
Hi Topabnders, Last year before CQWW SSB I finally implemented old dream to use 80m high telecomunications guyed mast to hold Top band antenna for this winter season. Construsction had to be simple t
Vlad appeared again on 1823 yesterday at 22:30. QSX 3 up. Very deep slow QSB from NIL to short speak with few dBs over noise. on African beverage only. It took 3 attempts with 5..7 min intervals to h
Hi, It finally happens... Good condx to NA. 72 USA + 3 VE + OX3PG this night. W7s started at 0400 UTC with K7TJR. N6TR closed the band 20 mins before sunrise at 0620. W7ZQ, W7RH, AE7H, KA7T, W7LR, N7
Hi, I really doubt that cell tower has good radio ground. I am involved in rollout of such a network in LY. Grounding is totally "electrical" and "anti lighting" - number of rods in ground, connected
Hi Oposite picture here: after 15 months of activity on TB I have: 42 states cfm via LoTW, 1 cfm via buro, 5 cfm direct with less than 1.5 month turnover time with most probably insufitient 1 IRC - s
Hi, Propagation was so poor to W/VE in ARRL test that I gave up and switched to 80 2nd night at 02:15 after 1 QSO in 60 minutes and 0 next hour. I had nice JA run on Saturday evening, Caribbeans and
LY3UM heard Remi at 1815 and he was readable at 1850 Z when I arrived to my station, but sigs faded out in seconds - before my PA warmed up. Any info on his further activities on TB? 15000 km and 58
Hi, Ed showed up at 19:30 UTC yesterday with decent signal and asked to pass this info: I am happy to wrk 5 stations before SR.. Please pass along to all in EU that I will be on regularly just before
KV4FZ: RX antennas are rolled in here too, but I buried coax and Beverage feed transformer with earthing road 80 m away from TX antenna. That lets me to have temprorary Beverage in 10-15 minutes in r
Blocking? Dynamic range? Something other? Nothing helps? This question rose after WPX weekend on TB with constant lighting all around including ?real video and audio? (and following rainbow). Killer
I saw spots from last night. Any ideas when again? TU 73 Arunas _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinf
Nelson 4S7NE built new antenna for 160m and shows up daily at 1830 UTC on 1822 with 300 watts. Signals were up to 559 here (in LY) on Monday . GL Arunas/Ly2ij ________________________________________
Hi, I read few remarks like this in last few months on TB reflector: Just curios - what is the physics/mystic behind? Different laws on 160 than 80? Distnace to ionosphere is very different? RU1A guy
No, Working DX even on 80 is hardly possible on RTTY. Signals are here, decoding doesn't work. So 160 RTTy will be limited to very local contacts, which is a case on 80 already. Arunas, LY2IJ (both T
Hi, Is it worth trying to use outdoor CAT5 to feed reversible Beverage? There are 4 twisted pairs inside, paralleling 2 for both directions will give something close to 50 or 75 ohms. Any idea what i
here was the CAT 5 single twisted pair to feed the flag antenna without any common mode noise pickup (it is necessary to strip the CAT5 and separate each of the 4 pairs), Hi, Yes, T6LG hears really
Hello, I used not shielded CAT6 UTP, 24AWG, Greg measured also not shielded but CAT5 UTP. Impedance is 100 Ohm according all CAT5/6/7 specifications. Simple 4 : 3 transformers (or better to say BalUn