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41. Re: Topband: cards (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:00:22 -0700
on cards; i have about 1000 worked in contests on 160 from W7DRA/0 in bellevue, nebraska. i am sending out cards hoping to earn a W7DRA/0 160m WAS. looks like it is going to take some time! mike w7dr
/archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00097.html (6,703 bytes)

42. Topband: 160m activity during OCDX (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:49:42 -0700
I am getting things ready for my Oceania Dx contest Kauai sojourn; will have my Hw16 ready for 160 through 20. On 160, I toggle switch modified the 80 meter transmitter section, and added a 12AX7/6C4
/archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00034.html (7,387 bytes)

43. Topband: 160m vertical (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:28:15 -0700
Speaking of 160 meter antennas, for the Oceania CW DX contest I will be on Kauai, Hawaii and plan to use some form of "Z" antenna ( half wave of wire, the center portion vertical, with the ends horiz
/archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00121.html (7,160 bytes)

44. Topband: Double L antenna users (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 00:54:48 -0700
i know the double L is a bit of a stretch on 160 because of hieght requirements, and i probably will use a Z antenna because it is easier to put up and feed (at the end), but if i can get in a double
/archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00021.html (6,679 bytes)

45. Topband: I am off to Kauai (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:16:27 GMT
I am off to Kauai, and will be on 1822 after 0800z tonight and the next two nights before the contest. Thanks, Mike W7DRA/KH6 _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topb
/archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00070.html (6,248 bytes)

46. Topband: antenna question (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:46:27 -0800
i have a double L/lazy U with the vertical portion about 80 feet high. would it be a help to me by putting up an inverted V with a height of about 90 feed located about 150 feet from the double L as
/archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00160.html (6,935 bytes)

47. Topband: storm (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:34:54 GMT
im sure there will be people up here still complainiing about the storm next july, but right now i am working furiously getting the rig back in order for the stew perry. little things like holes in t
/archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00351.html (6,893 bytes)

48. Topband: sp conditions (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:59:05 -0800
1) here in the pac nw i could hear and work lots of W7s. 2) K9DX sounded like he was using 100 watts to a dipole up 30 feet 3) N6RO and N6TR sounded like they were using full size stacked 6 element b
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00016.html (6,951 bytes)

49. Topband: the ole' inverted L again................... (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:13:56 -0800
not being a fan of coax, i thought i could erect an inverted L using twin lead, as in the old ARRL handbooks. this would raise the driving point impedance enough that i could maybe get away with usin
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00067.html (6,805 bytes)

50. Topband: an inverted L for 160m on the antenna tree (score: 1)
Author: mike dormal dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:59:01 -0800
i am putting an inverted L on my antenna tree, a 100 foot fir on the exact edge of a cliff facing west. not much chance of running radials east, but from north to south past west i can run all the ra
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00274.html (6,591 bytes)

51. Re: Topband: signal to noise = day or nite (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:28:52 GMT
this cq160 i aqmat my daughters in nebraska, with a inverted L (feedline, Lwire, and radials made of twisted pair phone line) , modifed HW16 and mostly home brew 9 tube superhet (6SK7 type) that in i
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00412.html (7,321 bytes)

52. Topband: nebraska musiings (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:12:22 GMT
i never fail to be impressed at how well you can do with a simple station from the midwest. even with my bandage on, i was able to work about 175 stations in the 160 contest. surprising that i never
/archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00462.html (6,644 bytes)

53. Re: Topband: QSLing (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:27:18 GMT
i have also found QSLing toward a WAS difficult, i even say that the desired card is for the WAS. still not a lot of luck QSLing from my /0 operations in NE mike w7dra _______________________________
/archives//html/Topband/2007-02/msg00134.html (7,509 bytes)

54. Re: Topband: It Isn't Supposed to Work (score: 1)
Author: "w7dra@juno.com" <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:31:40 GMT
this is my " it isn't supposed to work": feed my inverted L with #28 twisted bell telephone wire, in fact the whole antenna is twisted bell wire, radials and all. a 500 foot roll, 130 feet for the L
/archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00188.html (8,217 bytes)

55. Topband: tar (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:57:43 -0800
i know a good portion of my exercise fitness program is going over my beverage feedline and repairing the moisture soaked joints, but it is cold outside. and windy. and raining. in one of my beverage
/archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00034.html (6,789 bytes)

56. Re: Topband: tar (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:30:30 -0800
I want to thank everyone who took the time to respond to my tar question. Many excellent ideas were put forth, and I will do something, maybe trying more than one of them! Thanks again Mike W7DRA ___
/archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00045.html (6,910 bytes)

57. Re: Topband: Power (score: 1)
Author: mike l dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:30:18 -0700
the way i used to hear it, if you were 229, illegal power could probably (or just maybe, lets be honest here) 239. illegal power mostly gives one a feeling of superiority mike w7dra with 400 watts to
/archives//html/Topband/2008-07/msg00022.html (8,033 bytes)

58. Re: Topband: CQ DX...calling protocol (score: 1)
Author: mike l dol dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:51:13 -0700
Yes. I have found out that the best way to operate a 160m contest is to not run around looking and calling CQ but to sit on one freq and call CQ and 1) hope the band opens for a few minutes (I don't
/archives//html/Topband/2008-08/msg00088.html (7,736 bytes)

59. Topband: what it is like to be an alligator (score: 1)
Author: mike l dol dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:52:44 -0800
i took off the 833a and its driver, and ran a whole 5 watts. between going dancing and working on my new 3 tube regen, i still had time last night to work anyone i could hear in the contest, includin
/archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00064.html (7,337 bytes)

60. Topband: ready for stew perry (score: 1)
Author: mike l dol dormann <w7dra@juno.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:23:42 -0800
i have my "early 30s" station ready for the stew perry: 35/51 regen, with two 37 audio amps, and an MOPA with a 41 hartely oscillator driving two type 42s, with screen voltages adjusted for 5 watts o
/archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00226.html (6,888 bytes)

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