- 21. Re: Topband: NVIS Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 18:21:32 -0700
- Receive only comment. A low dipole - 15 feet average, uneven ground - Receive Only - accounted for something like 40% of the contacts with NA from XZ0A. During the first 2 hours at Sunset, the low di
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00190.html (11,018 bytes)
- 22. Re: Topband: DXCC Committe (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:15:16 -0700
- M A Y B E this started out on topic about topband My delete key is getting annoyed. How about take the DXCC desk practices discussion - and the language lessons - elsewhere Robin WA6CDR No worries Ma
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00268.html (8,268 bytes)
- 23. Re: Topband: 1610 KHz AM Channel in USA (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 18:41:16 -0700
- I have observed that airport related TIS seem to be going away for lack of public interest. The one for LAX was decommissioned more than 10 years ago. It takes regular daily time and effort from a du
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-07/msg00039.html (14,640 bytes)
- 24. Re: Topband: Low Dipoles (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 14:24:59 -0800
- At XZ0A we would not have made about 50% of our NA contacts if we had not installed a low receiving dipole. It was the ONLY antenna that could hear NA stations for the hours at sunset and just after.
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00157.html (10,706 bytes)
- 25. Re: Topband: Low Dipoles (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:38:01 -0800
- at XZ0A the situation was a bit different - high in the solar cycle so the polar oval was in the way for a lot of paths. The signals we could hear in the first couple of hours at sunset arrived out o
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00161.html (10,118 bytes)
- 26. Re: Topband: Balloon Supported Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 17:04:41 -0800
- Look into the sources of advertizing balloons. I bought one shaped as a dirigible about 25 years ago to lift my vertical. It was moderately successful for the HS72B operation, but it was quite a lot
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-11/msg00032.html (14,073 bytes)
- 27. Re: Topband: 8Q7WM Z-22 in VE6 (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 00:05:57 -0800
- Hi Steve Did you try a high angle receive antenna? Not so sure on this end, but when we were working skew paths from XZ0A we simply had to have a cloud warmer receive antenna in order to hear anythin
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-03/msg00000.html (12,382 bytes)
- 28. Re: Topband: Painted towers (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:27:35 -0700
- very much so. Thailand wants paint on everything called a tower Robin -- Original Message -- From: "cqtestk4xs-- via Topband" <topband@contesting.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Saturday, Jun
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-06/msg00007.html (7,731 bytes)
- 29. Re: Topband: The State of 160m (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 11:10:20 -0700
- PLEASE lets NOT start the FT8 /digital modes arguments again on this reflector, good, bad or indifferent. take the arguments and discussion elsewhere, please Robin -- Original Message -- From: "Hans
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-07/msg00002.html (11,887 bytes)
- 30. Re: Topband: K9FD & digital (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:22:53 -0700
- PLEASE lets NOT go down the digital ruined the world rabbit hole again! its a discussion for a different venue PLEASE I am not a moderator, just a list member with a sore delete finger. I DO want to
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-09/msg00039.html (10,415 bytes)
- 31. Re: Topband: How good is good enough (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:13:19 -0800
- DXpediton style take 3-4 feet of bare solid # 10 # 12 copper wire and make a loop around the base of the antenna support- make it larger if necessary, wrap and solder the ends of the loop Wrap a coup
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-11/msg00054.html (10,648 bytes)
- 32. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 17:08:40 -0800
- that's where added half space has a useful point. your increase in copied accuracy should more than offset the decrease in spot accuracy the ZIP speed change for any part is the first thing I get rid
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00044.html (11,309 bytes)
- 33. Re: Topband: Sanity Check on K9AY Loop Sensitivity (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 02:45:50 -0800
- Be sure to check your high angle receive antennas near Sunset and Sunrise, especially during this period of high solar activity and wide polar oval. A low receiving dipole (10-15 ft) accounted for up
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00067.html (11,045 bytes)
- 34. Re: Topband: VP6A (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:01:47 -0700
- Hi George I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise in So Calif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen fu
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-06/msg00042.html (11,710 bytes)
- 35. Re: Topband: KH8 (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 04:02:12 -0700
- Hi George if you have the opportunity, a high angle receive antenna for the hours at and just after sunset may serve you well a receiving dipole at 15 ft accounted for a large percentage of contacts
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-11/msg00016.html (11,888 bytes)
- 36. Re: Topband: GM from Timor Leste (score: 1)
- Author: "m.r.c." <mrc02@kinderteacher.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 01:27:23 -0800
- If Dietmar can not pull your signal out of the noise, nobody can. His S/N threshold performance is somewhere well south of minus 10 dB. I have sat next to him and listened to him work stations I coul
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-11/msg00072.html (15,672 bytes)
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