Hi Jon, I tried again this morning from 11:00 Z for a little more than 15 minutes. I have been sending a long string..up to 10 CQs and signing twice. I pause and tune a little up and down, sip my cof
Hi, I've had several useful suggestions including moving a short way up the band. I already knew hams in other countries don't have the same frequency allocations we do. I was trying to stay out of t
Please reply with directions to Dave's query on the list or.. include me if the reply is off-list. I am facing some of the same issues. Maybe I could sort it out for myself but why reinvent the wheel
Hi Anton, It will work very well but your receiver will only hear 1825 kHz. Most of us would like to have a receiver that can be used on our entire band assignment...at least as much of it as we use.
Hi, I am chasing a different solution to my noise problem. I am building receivers with high level diode ring double balanced mixers up front. I have a commercially made transceiver (Atlas 180) that
Hi, My initial effort at getting "something...anything" up for an antenna has produced mediocre results - as expected. Maybe a little more mediocre than I was hoping for. I can hear with it pretty we
Hi Jack, I just made some comments in a thread regarding multi band operation with the FCP. Thanks for the updated information. I am going to make a wild guess that I can add an FCP for 40 and perhap
Hi, I don't think the front end xtal filters are a bulletproof fix, either. They might contribute to a solution. Come to my shack when the guy over in the body shop starts up his welder. He isn't in
Hi, Everybody knows what QRM, QRN, QSB mean...those are NOT obscure Q signals. That's because they are with us ALL the time. We do the best we can to accommodate everybody else and fit ouir signals i
Hi Everybody, I have made some more progress with my Johnson Ranger. I already was using it on 160 and 80 meters with an end fed wire. The 40 meter VFO was far too unstable to even think of using it
Hi Pete, I'm thinking if your 350 foot feedline is coax and your antenna output is very low it will be even lower at the shack end before it meets the preamp. I think I would put mine at the antenna
Hi, I am not and will never be a BIG player on 160...my antenna farm is more like a flower pot! I can hear much better than I can transmit..the opposite of an "alligator". So I listen a lot more than
As a matter of fact... We have that 'uselss' "T" hanging out there on the end of RST (for CW ops). One year while on the way to Field Day a component lead broke in the bias supply filter in my transm
There was smoke and heat over that a while back when that idea was first brought to the lists and I wrote in opposition. We don't need to go there again. I got quite a bit of private email as a resul
Hi, Some of the things that happen on the radio - including on top band, are very disappointing and can be irritating. I have two or three *other* activities like playing a musical instrument, garden
When I made engine parts we sometimes shot the engineers and went into full production. 73, Bill KU8H _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Hi, Trying to get up on top band on my small lot (free of antenna 'covenants') has forced the issue for me. I will be putting up a stick as tall as I can, with some sort of loading/matching, AND, as
That means that I will definitely be keeping my RAK-7! 73, Bill KU8H _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Hi, I used electronic log submission for the first time after I played a little in the Stew Perry. Like some of the others I am not personally thrilled with the ideas behind LOTW but I have been unaw
I think this thread will quickly get of hand even though it may be applicable on Top Band (and every other band). I took a quick look at the QTH.net lists and I didn't see anything resembling "instru