This class of capacitor also works great for making repairs to old tube rigs. Various RF bypass, plate blocking etc. in 807/6146B type rigs. Tim N3QE _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - ht
I mostly rely on reversebeacon skimmers to "spot me". I know for sure whenever I issue a CQ, and I'm not specifically in a contest unassisted, I am also watching reversebeacon. If I call CQ on 160M a
I turn on the news every day and hear about EU economic woes. What's wrong with the "Marshall Plan for DX"? Just as NA (not just EU) benefited economically from the real Marshall plan (I explain it t
Wouldn't the timescale based on leading edge TOF, be the rise time of the pulse? For triangulating on lightning bolts by TOF, rise time doesn't seem to be a limiting factor because lightning bolts ar
Conditions to EU on 160M last night were just superb. Might be best to just let TI9 work EU given these conditions. This AM before I went to work (1100Z), I got them on 160M CW. They weren't loud but
For most of the past century the intractability of the equations was the excuse for just laying down "textbook" overkill radial systems. If you can't solve the "real world problem", then just change
Radials into neighbors back yard? Yep. At least on contest nights! Radials across basement ceiling and out other side of the house? Yep. Radials across garage floor, out garage windows, through bushe
The higher you go, the easier to find and hold a run frequency. Action extends way way above 1900. There will be a couple occupied "net" frequencies along the way. When I get home tonight, my normall
I don't think signing "VE3XZ/JA" is good enough for remote through Japan. The ones I know who do such stuff, have a special "foreigner in JA" call that starts with 7J, and there's even a special bloc
Stan brings up an interesting point. Out of curiosity, how many stations in the top 20 scores of TBDC, use remote receivers within 100km, as allowed by the rules? Tim N3QE _________________ Topband R
Current fastest way of communicating between two points on the planet is via neutrino beam (which travels just fine through solid rock, we don't need no stinking ether or fiber). Incidentally, they u
These are very affordable (circa $3) 8A SPDT relays and they held up OK for me in heavy contest usage - until I got a legal limit amp. Since then I have at first intermittent and then increasing prob
With silver-cadmium relay contacts I use on my ladder line switching, I find I have to occasionally transmit a dit to get receive to work again, especially if I haven't been on the radio in hours or
I would not in general expect fiberglass board to have high loss at 160M. Regular non-UV rated fiberglass is a glass-reinforced polyester with styrene. HOWEVER... if this is some UV-rated fiberglass,
Not heard it mentioned here recently... summer Stew is this weekend! http://www.kkn.net/stew/ I have been working very odd hours at work the past few weeks, but plan to take some time off, battle the
Huge line of thunderstorms ripped through here in the hour before sundown. http://www.trailing-edge.com/lightningmaps.png After the worst of it had passed, most of houses around me lost power due to
I have had excellent success modeling "Marconi T" verticals with EZNEC. The Demo version can do a Marconi T just fine. Comparison with real world results in my backyard was very good, with EZNEC's pr
I've used the K9AY pushbutton RX select switches at W3LPL and they are a very fine ergonomic solution. Definitely prefer the pushbuttons to rotary switches. At home I use footswitches for 1-of-4 RX d
The base K9AY 8x2 switch box: http://www.aytechnologies.com/Products/RAS8x2data.htm If Gary came out with a similar latching pushbutton controller for remote relay switching of 8-circles then it woul
CW skimmer is very impressive to see in action. But nowhere as good as an average CW contester at picking callsigns from the noise. Tim N3QE _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.