- 21. Topband: RX and TX questions (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Gents, With the start of the the season I once again seek to improve things. I plan on taking down my 160 RX loop and making it a full .1 wave single turn with a rotor and bottom corner about 15 ft a
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-08/msg00040.html (7,668 bytes)
- 22. Topband: Interesting Loop Antenna Design and EZNEC (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Playing with a loop design and EZNEC I modeled a square loop 12' above the ground, 16' boom and 16' high. Corners at the top and bottom. First shot was a source at one end of the boom and an 800 ohm
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-08/msg00072.html (7,400 bytes)
- 23. Topband: Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:48:47 -0700 (PDT)
- I was wondering if my inverted L ground plane would be better off as a 50 foot vertical so I did some modeling. Using EZNEC I put in most all the radials I have on the roof sloping from about 16 feet
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-10/msg00130.html (7,682 bytes)
- 24. Topband: RX antennas (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:07:35 -0800 (PST)
- Apparently there are a lot of stations not hearing the PJ2s on 160. He came back to "N6P" and a bunch of Ks Ws Ns responded. I think I finally worked him, but it was hard to tell with the other non-"
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00039.html (7,289 bytes)
- 25. Topband: Propagation (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:12:30 -0800 (PST)
- Hi, Any program or url out there like W6EL or Ham Cap that you can enter current SSN/K etc and get a 160 plot? They all seem to stop at 80 m. Tnx Rick, N6PE == I thought I wanted a career, turns out
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00089.html (6,295 bytes)
- 26. Topband: Propagation (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:47:20 -0800 (PST)
- First, thanks to all that replied off list. I guess now a I know why in the ARRL 160 contests over about 25 years I always work the same east coast stations in a 15-20 min window regardless of the su
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00110.html (7,625 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Radios and contests (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 08:46:00 -0800 (PST)
- Weak signals on 160 are usually not a problem. I'd rather have an old S-40 on a remote mountain in Montana than a K-3 here with S-8 noise. Sure there are more guys with K-3s than $10,000 7800s, bet m
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-12/msg00021.html (8,143 bytes)
- 28. Topband: Isotron (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:31:21 -0800 (PST)
- Anyone used an Isotron for 160 RX and have any comments? Rick, N6PE == You're never too old to learn something stupid. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB -
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-01/msg00085.html (6,482 bytes)
- 29. Topband: Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:03:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Experts needed, I am using an old Create vertical mounted 20 feet above ground with about 60 radials of various lenghts. I removed the original Create 40 meter trap because it usually spit fire and e
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-04/msg00134.html (7,661 bytes)
- 30. Topband: EZNEC circular loop (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:22:40 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi all, Anyone have an EZNEC file for a 160 circular loop? TNX, Rick, N6PE == If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong. _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-08/msg00056.html (6,691 bytes)
- 31. [RFI] BCB interference on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:42:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi all, I recently built a sheilded RX loop for 160 per N6RKs Contest Jouranal artical. It is diode tuned and covers about 1.5-4 mhz. I am hearing two AM radio stations on 1830 khz. They are 640 an
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-09/msg00076.html (7,545 bytes)
- 32. [RFI] Loop problem - Solved, well maybe (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Thanks to all that replied. I put on the thinking cap and connected the loop directly to the RX antenna and the intermod is still there. Getting out the ladder and changing the tuning diodes to t
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-09/msg00079.html (6,798 bytes)
- 33. Topband: Grounding TX antenna (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:29:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi all, I am using a DX Engineering current feed line choke at the base on my elevated inverted L for 160 M and a N6RK shielded coax loop with varactor tuning for 80-160M. The loop is only 20 fee
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00148.html (6,816 bytes)
- 34. Topband: 160 Conditions from ORG (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 12:30:47 -0800 (PST)
- Worst conditions in a long time last night. Worked a couple of VE2,3, 6 an 7s, KL7, KH6, all the 6's 7', and most all 8, 9, and 0s. GA, KY, TN, VA, AR, LA.... lone CE and XE. Didn't bother staying up
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00021.html (6,860 bytes)
- 35. Topband: QSL Manager (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:19:23 -0800 (PST)
- Anyone know the QSL manager that inserts a note saying he collects stamps? I've been saving them, but forgot who wants them. Thanks Rick, N6PE == _______________________________________________ UR
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00535.html (7,062 bytes)
- 36. Topband: QSL Manager Stamp Collector (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:33:13 -0800 (PST)
- Thanks to all that responded - the most cited is WA4WTG Rick, N6PE == _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00549.html (6,504 bytes)
- 37. Topband: Logger32 and LOTW (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:53:57 -0800 (PST)
- Logger32 will send and download your log to ARRL without you having to do a lot of work, Click Click Click. Spots are also high lighted as LOTW users For direct return postage to some countries, sorr
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-02/msg00268.html (6,995 bytes)
- 38. Topband: Radial connections (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Hi all, When I had my house tented I had to disconnect the radials on my inverted L. There is a 20 foot pipe that sticks up about 3 feet above the roof and the insulated vertical section is fed t
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-09/msg00006.html (6,857 bytes)
- 39. Topband: Stew Perry (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
- 44 QSO's ......... I think 4 were above ESP/noise here. Thanks for the repeats Rick, N6PE == Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. _______________________________________________ Remember
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00279.html (6,350 bytes)
- 40. Topband: FCP (score: 1)
- Author: rick darwicki <n6pe@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:18:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Gents, I have an inverted L about 16' above ground with many radials on my roof. Would the K2AV FCP be effective connected as a "radial" ? I have a DX Engineering Choke at the feed point. The anten
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00048.html (6,523 bytes)
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