- 61. Re: Topband: What antenna would you build? (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:55:41 -0500
- Different people have differing views on the definition of a serious antenna. An 8 circle with 8 directions of BSEF verticals would definitely be serious. If you wanted one tower and didnt want to do
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-03/msg00046.html (11,804 bytes)
- 62. Re: Topband: J28MD, conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 14:35:59 -0500
- I have no idea how any of this FT stuff works and dont really want to know but I am very interested to know how the ARRL knows whether someone is sleeping or awake. Stan, K5GO Sent from my iPhone ___
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-11/msg00011.html (11,206 bytes)
- 63. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 00:40:45 -0600
- I tried that when I held the call ZF2ET and on that particular suffix i think it might have been a good thing. I went back and forth on doing it or not but always paused slightly when sending by hand
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00046.html (10,391 bytes)
- 64. Re: Topband: Antennas and saltwater (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:13:16 -0600
- Björn, I would like to see your picture if you could send it to me. You are always strong on 160 and now we know why. For the verticals I have put up on a temporary basis very close to the water, I a
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00156.html (8,883 bytes)
- 65. Re: Topband: Verticals on the beach (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 21:59:46 -0600
- Kenny, Its not easy and in fact I havent done it for anything lower than 40m. It would be very interesting to compare something at the waters edge to what I have now. The shoreline runs SW-NE - I thi
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00166.html (9,399 bytes)
- 66. Re: Topband: Verticals on the beach (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 06:50:44 -0600
- Thanks, Dan! I have absolutely no concern about what I am achieving from about 240 degrees CW to about 25 degrees. I dont think it gets much better for a single element. In terms of wavelength my 160
- /archives//html/Topband/2022-12/msg00176.html (9,631 bytes)
- 67. Re: Topband: 160m loaded tower (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:31:29 -0600
- Ignacy, Is your thought that you are a few dB weaker based on sone kind of A-B test of the two antenna setups or just that you feel weaker? 73Stan, K5GO Sent from my iPhone _________________ Searchab
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00098.html (7,113 bytes)
- 68. Re: Topband: Topband DX/NVIS (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:01:17 -0500
- When first married, 48 years ago, I ran a wire around the small yard at the house we rented. I dont think any part of that end fed wire was more than 15 feet off the ground and there was nothing more
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-08/msg00050.html (8,963 bytes)
- 69. Topband: Radial Attachment Plate (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:25:29 -0500
- In preparing to head to ZF9CW in about ten days, I wanted to take something that would allow me to do a better job on my radials under my shunt fed tower. With the thing so close to salt water the de
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-10/msg00062.html (8,423 bytes)
- 70. Re: Topband: Radial Attachment Plate (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 19:24:18 -0500
- Jim, Thanks for pointing me to that review. I looked at that picture. These are 304 grade stainless. DX Engineering's plate is the same - 304 stainless steel which is not the best for corrosion resis
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-10/msg00065.html (9,079 bytes)
- 71. Re: Topband: Using 4 - 6 elevated radials in lieu of 120 buried wires (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 05:25:01 -0500
- In 1980 based on advice from a friend who had done a lot of government antenna work for WWV, VOA (I think), I put up 192 feet of Rohn 25G (!) solely dedicated to 160 Meters and had 9 radials (3 from
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-01/msg00065.html (12,251 bytes)
- 72. Re: Topband: DXpedition Beverage Termination Grounding Schemes?? (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 19:48:56 -0600
- When I was lucky enough to get by with running a 1200 foot Beverage on the rocks about 15-20 feet from the sea across about ten properties, all it took on either end was a 20 foot wire soldered to a
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-03/msg00017.html (7,994 bytes)
- 73. Re: Topband: T32JV -- Test before Jarvis (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 05:03:44 -0500
- I took the day off from playing golf yesterday and shunt fed my tower. No separate RX antenna and city lot with S9+10 QRN. When I woke up I saw Bobs note about working T32JV and thought I would go to
- /archives//html/Topband/2024-05/msg00003.html (9,340 bytes)
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