- 21. Topband: Safety with pneumatic tennis ball launchers (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 19:04:46 +0100
- G4FTC wrote "The one thing that scares me with the tennis ball launcher is the risk of the plastic air reservoir exploding..." - which is why I always put on safety goggles when using mine. 73, Tom G
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-08/msg00301.html (6,514 bytes)
- 22. Topband: 160 conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:54:15 +0000
- It's nice to hear the band back in good shape again after a few years. Big CW signal from W4EF in CA this morning along with ZL3IX, also a string of JAs/HL earlier this week. Let's keep the 160 CW ac
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-12/msg00125.html (6,861 bytes)
- 23. Topband: DXE Thunderbolt (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:24:12 +0000
- David G3WGN, I'm sure you must have some tall trees down there in the Dart Valley! You could save yourself a bundle in shipping charges alone by putting up a simple wire inverted 'L' or a 'T'. Use a
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00070.html (7,043 bytes)
- 24. Topband: Topband Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 18:43:02 +0000
- Just to add to the discussion on band conditions, Mike W4EF near LA was romping into UK this morning, Tuesday at 0800 sunrise, peaking 8 to 9 and Larry N7DD was well over the 9. Apart from those two,
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-01/msg00092.html (6,372 bytes)
- 25. Topband: Unsubscribing (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 17:55:12 +0100
- Hello Greg, Just to say thanks a million for the countless 160 metre QSOs we have had, mainly at UK sunrise, over the past 15 years. Your remote station receiving capability has always amazed me. I c
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-09/msg00065.html (8,147 bytes)
- 26. Topband: ZL1AZ (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 07:57:36 +0100
- Good signals peaking at my sunrise this morning from Dennis ZL1AZ. Nice to hear 160 conditions improving. 73, Tom G3OLB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Top
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-10/msg00013.html (6,114 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Inverted-L Question (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 19:47:33 +0000
- Steve, For comparison my inverted-L is similar to yours with a 94 ft vertical section and 43 ft horizontal (ish). It is on a tall tree, not a tower. Like you, I use an L-network to match it and get a
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-12/msg00067.html (6,890 bytes)
- 28. Topband: ARRL DX CW Contest (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 15:54:22 +0000
- Best top-band conditions I've heard in a while. Mid-West and West Coast romping in both mornings, including CA - N6RO and WA6KHK. 73, Tom G3OLB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.conte
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-02/msg00058.html (6,272 bytes)
- 29. Topband: QRP on 160? (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 16:14:37 +0100
- For many years after I was licensed in 1960, we were limited in G-land to 10 watts input to the PA (not output). So working DX was a major achievement, although there were quite a few 'fat watts' aro
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-07/msg00016.html (7,728 bytes)
- 30. Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 259, Issue 14 (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:03:30 +0100
- Sorry Jim K9YC but it is incorrect to say that a loading coil at the base of an antenna, which is less than a quarter wave, will affect the high current point of the antenna. Assuming the coil is pur
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-07/msg00053.html (40,432 bytes)
- 31. Topband: Loading coil current distribution (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 16:15:01 +0100
- Quote by W8JI: <*Measuring the current into and out of the loading coil with a small thermocouple RF meter, I detect no difference This is in close agreement with the model*.> Of course as has been p
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-08/msg00012.html (7,690 bytes)
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