- 1. Topband: Low RX Dipole (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza at socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Tue May 6 06:09:47 2003
- such a low dipole is very successful when you want to receive signals from nearly straight up. I have not plotted it, but Id expect very poor "pickup" below about 30-40 degrees arrival angle. A simil
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-05/msg00038.html (8,416 bytes)
- 2. Topband: FCC HF actions (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza at socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Tue Mar 4 06:21:13 2003
- While this docket deals primarily with HF broadcasting matters, it does comment on several areas of interest, and it contains the latest table of HF allocations. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00004.html (7,206 bytes)
- 3. Topband: FCC HF actions (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza at socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Wed Mar 5 22:02:50 2003
- That bothered me, too, until I looked down the far right column, shows part 97 and part 90 for 1900-2000. its typical - totally obscure! bottom line is the three left columns - the international allo
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00015.html (9,788 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Re: DX Pileup Practices (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 21:20:47 -0800
- A few Hz bandwidth from XZ0A/XZ1N The success rules Bill posted are right on task. I must especially echo Bills #3. An absolutely incredible amount of time was wasted by folks calling over the top of
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00022.html (10,540 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Re: DX Pileup Practices (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 12:48:22 -0800
- sent "TU" I would like to take some bandwidth to make my defintion clear as it is a VERY sore spot for me - on ALL bands. I do NOT EVER want to hear another callsign or signal until I complete with t
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00030.html (12,515 bytes)
- 6. Topband: pileup practices (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 02:52:14 -0800
- I stirred things up a bit, so I guess I should comment that its probably time to put this subject to bed for a while. I think we all agree that TX till the smoke is all gone is just plain wrong. Beyo
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00045.html (6,819 bytes)
- 7. Topband: beverage above water (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:10:39 +0000
- Actually, the conductivity is less important than the velocity factor. A copper wire beverage above a (big) copper sheet wont behave at all like a beverage because the signals travel thru both sides
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00164.html (8,527 bytes)
- 8. Topband: 3G0Y (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 22:49:47 -0800
- Me Hats off to the man with good ears! Working them from the west coast with 100 watts isn't hard at all..... if you have an antenna. He answered me on my first call & we completed quickly. 100 watts
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-03/msg00093.html (7,099 bytes)
- 9. Topband: topband mobile (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:57:11 -0800
- Don't sell Topband mobile short... in the 60s I ran CW mobile and had a lot of fun, but I was never as serious as KH6DX/M... If you build as efficient an array as you can & make it draw a lot of RF c
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-02/msg00080.html (7,898 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Carriers-QRM (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:37:42 -0800
- Yosi posted a plea not to use frequencies zero beat with BCI products. This applies world wide, and is an especially prevalent issue in the US where there so many AM broadcast stations. US broadcast
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-01/msg00109.html (7,954 bytes)
- 11. Topband: Long Path (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:21:06 -0800
- Hi Folks Just a quick reminder- especially with the hi performance effort at A61AJ coming up - "Long path" does NOT always mean the great circle reciprocal of short path - especially on top band and
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-11/msg00071.html (9,511 bytes)
- 12. Topband: I.C.E (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:19:25 -0700
- ICE supplied some neat devices for use at XZ0A - bandpass splitters for our beverages. The bandpass splitters provide two important things- a way to listen simultaneously on 3 bands from the same RX
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-04/msg00017.html (7,204 bytes)
- 13. Topband: ICE- find them (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:21:59 -0700
- ICE can be a little hard to look up. I've had requests for contact information. http://www.inducomm.net/ E-mail: websales@inducomm.net Phone: 317-545-5412 box 18495 Indianapolis, In 46218 see also li
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-04/msg00024.html (6,896 bytes)
- 14. Topband: XZ0A TX FREQ (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:21:13 -0800
- Hi Folks Its getting close!. stuff piled everywhere!. I have read of some interference encountered on our 1825.5 TX freq, notably in the Texas region. I could change it to 1826.5, if there is a reaso
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00017.html (7,320 bytes)
- 15. Topband: XZ0A (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 00:29:08 -0800
- HI Folks Couple last minute bits of info. URL for our WEB site http://getnet.com/%7Ek7wx/myanmar.htm Earliest possible top band operation 1100Z Jan 13, it may be 24 more hours before the station is u
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00044.html (9,921 bytes)
- 16. Topband: VE1ZZ (score: 1)
- Author: wb6tza@socal.rr.com (wb6tza@socal.rr.com)
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:22:42 -0800
- Jacks "Beacon" signal was quite evident both trips to XZ1N. A plot of that path should take him thru the edge of the oval. On the 1998 trip, I asked him to call in each night when he heard us.. many
- /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00097.html (7,454 bytes)
- 17. Topband: Titanex (score: 1)
- Author: "R" <wb6tza@socal.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 18:28:42 -0700
- I am considering the purchase of a Titanex V-160E for an upcoming DXpedition. I have done some reading already, and would now like to see what experiences folks have had. 1: Is there a problem haulin
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-10/msg00059.html (7,202 bytes)
- 18. Topband: solar flare (score: 1)
- Author: "R" <wb6tza@socal.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:28:29 -0700
- this is somewhat non technical but it oughta be really interesting to see what happens on top band 73 Robin, WA6CDR == Solar flare will make its presence known here today The Associated Press BOULDER
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-10/msg00146.html (7,302 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: elecraft k2/100 (score: 1)
- Author: <wb6tza@socal.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:14:23 -0800
- Hi John I used a freshly built K2/100 for topband operations at ZA1UT & ZA/WA6CDR this last month. The K2 make all the non contest 160 contacts, and was a multiplier hunter during ZA1A CQWW M/M opera
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00135.html (9,404 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: 160 Nostalgia (score: 1)
- Author: <wb6tza@socal.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:52:50 -0800
- Another easy to spot fist- KH6CC. even into the 90s and beyond, that call could be picked out of the noise just from the cadence.. that credits his contact with me from XZ1N. Anyone remember which ZL
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00322.html (9,792 bytes)
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