- 21. Re: Topband: How good is good enough (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:40:08 -0500
- Just cut 20 more 70' radials. Time to go play in the yard. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>. For spots, please use your favorite "retai
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-11/msg00046.html (9,714 bytes)
- 22. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 09:15:07 -0500
- I had 598 QSOs in CQWW CW (10M) and 420 in the ARRL 160 CW, about 85 percent S&P (assisted), and don't recall a single instance where an incorrect spot led me even to think about calling a station wh
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00021.html (9,387 bytes)
- 23. Topband: Correction (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 21:13:13 -0500
- 73, Pete N4ZR,one of the RBN team Check out our web server at <https://reversebeacon.net/main.php>. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster. Earlier today, someone who shall remain na
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00029.html (7,587 bytes)
- 24. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 10:35:57 -0500
- From 13 years experience rather than detailed analysis or any knowledge of VE3NEA's decoding methods, I don't think that an additional half-space is a big problem - certainly not as compared to runni
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00048.html (12,263 bytes)
- 25. Topband: Sanity Check on K9AY Loop Sensitivity (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:59:09 -0500
- I just deployed my K9AY loop (yes, I know I'm late). Anyhow, while it shows substantial directivity on broadcast stations, I was surprise by how much the K9AY loop's sensitivity suffers compared to
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00057.html (7,907 bytes)
- 26. Re: Topband: RFI tripping GFI breaker on 160m (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:48:22 -0500
- Darrell, I suspect you would find better response on RFI@contesting.com, where all the mavens hang out. 73, Pete N4ZR On 12/29/2022 9:20 PM, AB2E Darrell wrote: I trip a GFI breaker sometimes on 160m
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00163.html (7,301 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Comparing antennas was: Re: 160m loaded tower (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:18:41 -0500
- This would have been more helpful to Ignacy before the second antenna went up, but taking off from Stan's question ... if you want to get a quick quantitative comparison between two transmitting ante
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00099.html (9,799 bytes)
- 28. Re: Topband: Comparing antennas was: Re: 160m loaded tower (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:26:28 -0500
- I agree entirely - the challenge is to model a tower and two multiband yagis with sufficient fidelity. 73, Pete N4ZR Jim - KR9U I have a 100 ft tower with jk mid tri 40 on top. When shunt fed, it was
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00104.html (9,429 bytes)
- 29. Re: Topband: Comparing antennas was: Re: 160m loaded tower (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 17:19:43 -0500
- This is really cool. Somehow I had managed to miss the emergence of the Kiwi WEBSDR network. Clearly, that *is* a better way 73, Pete N4ZR This is a short 4 min Video, but shows how easy it is to se
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00106.html (10,385 bytes)
- 30. Topband: Shape and height of K9AY loops (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:45:06 -0500
- I don't think I've ever read anything about this. Just rechecked the Array Solutions manual and found nothing. Reason for asking is that I have to replace my fiberglass mast, and while the old one
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00107.html (7,220 bytes)
- 31. Topband: 160M Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:53:04 -0500
- This snapshot of RBN spots over the last 36 hours is a little disappointing. Is there really an international contest on? -- 73, Pete N4ZR _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00118.html (6,236 bytes)
- 32. Re: Topband: 160M Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:16:30 -0500
- No, just an error of understanding on my part. I did a lookup for the last 36 hours, but the map only plots the last 100 spots, something that I should have realized but hadn't. Apologies to everyo
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00121.html (8,686 bytes)
- 33. Topband: 2-element receiving arrays (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 08:54:30 -0400
- Thinking ahead to next winter on 160, I'm interested in replacing my K9AY Loop with a 2-vertical phased array. I'd like to homebrew the antennas and just buy or build the remote control unit for the
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-03/msg00030.html (7,251 bytes)
- 34. Re: Topband: NCC-2 antenna pattern? (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:36:58 -0500
- If you can get that close I suggest a small explosive charge 73, Pete N4ZR On 12/17/2023 10:31 AM, John Kaufmann via Topband wrote: If you are going to use the NCC-2 to null a nearby in-band transmit
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-12/msg00049.html (10,708 bytes)
- 35. Re: Topband: Inverted L Question (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:21:07 -0500
- FWIW, for 160 I used my old 97-foot Rohn 25 tower, with 2 tribanders and a 40M 2-el on it, shunt fed at about 50 feet. I had a pair of 300 uf variable caps at the bottom, one in series with the feed
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-12/msg00070.html (9,528 bytes)
- 36. Re: Topband: DX Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 21:49:23 -0500
- No, they are not, but there's no reason I know of that would prevent RBN spots from being carried on any other network - they are distributed to the "wholesale market" (not end users please) on Telne
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-01/msg00116.html (10,750 bytes)
- 37. Re: Topband: B7P (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 08:04:14 -0400
- Having lived in the developing world for over a decade, I can testify to the likelihood of lots of line noise, resulting from sub-standard, badly-maintained power infrastructure. The predominance of
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-04/msg00019.html (9,073 bytes)
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