The results for the 2009 PreStew are now posted at http://web.jzap.com/k7rat/stew.html. Remember - the "big" Stew is coming in two weeks. 73 Tree _______________________________________________ 160 m
I reformated the list of Stew Perry Plaques to make it a bit easier to see what is already sponsored. A few plaques have been identified that are not yet sponsored - and I will give the topband list
Women, Men and Others of the Contesting Realm, In less than 24 hours, the 14th Stew Perrry TopBand DX Challenge sponsored by the Boring people in Oregon will be filling the 160 meter band. We have ar
An easy way to enter your Stew Perry log is to use the WA7BNM web based Cabrillo log tool. You can find it here (page down to the 2009 Stew Perry near the bottom of the page). http://www.b4h.net/cabf
An interesting article put together by Rick, K6VVA can be found here: http://www.k6vva.com/2009stewperry/ "If you are a CC&R Challenged 160m Contester, I sincerely hope this info will encourage you t
Ah - this reminds of me of my CQ WW CW operation from EA9 back in 1990. There was a multi-multi spread out across the island and I could yell "HI" to the 15 meter operator as he was putting his anten
I have made a few postings about some of the changes I have been making here on 160 meters. For many years, my transmit antenna was a single tower, with a gamma match and about 45 radials over good g
Many of you might have heard the big signal from KM1CC on the band during the last day or two. Here is some information on that special event station that K1ZM forwarded: With special permission from
Last night - the band seemed to recover from the poor conditions I have experienced during the past few days. To put this into perspective, I had consecutive nights where I found it impossible to pul
I had one or two people ask what top posting was. This can be found by searching the list archives on "top posting". W4ZV posted a message about this here: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/
Some interesting reading at www.spaceweather.com: It looks like this peaked around 1330 UTC. Wonder if anyone noticed strange things happening on the band around then? 73 Tree _______________________
Yup - maybe 20 minutes duration once here. For those who missed my earlier posting - here is a recording of echoes I made about five years ago: http://www.kkn.net/~tree/sounds/echo.wav Tree _________
Next weekend is the end of the log submission period for the Stew Perry Topband Distance Challenge. In years past, we have accepted logs that came in before the log checking process was started (typi
Not sure if you sent in the log or not? You can now check at our new logs received page. It will also show you the power level for all of the logs received. You can find the link to it from the main
Last night, I heard a very bad noise on the band. It sounded like a bad connection somewhere that was mixing AM broadcast signals. It was all over the band, but seemed worse around 1790 kHz. It wasn'
Thanks for all the comments about the noise I have been hearing. It came back last night and I was lucky enough to notice it on my drive home and was able to do some effective DFing (thanks for havin
A few days before the CQ 160 CW contest, I received my new SDR-IQ "receiver" from HRO. It is a small box - with a USB cable and a BNC connector for the antenna. The power for it comes from the comput
Since I found I could TX on the band with 100 watts and have the SDR still hearing signals on the band - it probably has pretty good dynamic range. Just playing around with it on the AM broadcast ba
Dear Topbanders, I wish to thank all the hams that helped me with parts/etc. Since early december 2009, I have been working hard for the improvment of my 160m Tx antennas and Rx antennas. Also since