- 1. Re: Topband: Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: "w9ge" <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:57:51 -0500
- The r4c is a terrific receiver IF it has the sherwood 600 hz roofing filter(still available from Bob Sherwood I think), and/or the GUF-1 filter (still available from International radio) and certain
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00087.html (7,786 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: "w9ge" <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:47:03 -0500
- Tom is correct. My comments were geared only to cw without so stating. The Sherwood 600 "roofing filter" makes the r4c acceptable. I have little experience with ssb so simply neglected the issue. I a
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00095.html (7,950 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: "w9ge" <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:52:39 -0500
- JT: First choice for me would be a Kenwood TS830S with remote VFO, and second but about equal choice is the Kenwood TS930S. The 830 you can fix easily while the 930 is getting long in the tooth. 930
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00110.html (9,761 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: "w9ge" <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:08:18 -0500
- k5zk said in part "I've seen no mention of the Kenwood TS-940S" I too have wondered that, but never have owned one. I do have one sitting in the barn just now, part of an estate that I am trying to p
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00141.html (8,761 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Contest weekend/HK1 (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:28:01 -0500
- It works both ways. I am no big gun on 160, but I worked HK1XX on first call Friday night from the east coast amidst the pile up. Timing and TX vfo placement must have something to do with it. Maybe
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00009.html (6,971 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: A few beverage planning questions (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:54:55 -0500
- Wow: Lots of questions 1. Use any old good coax....it does not matter that much on 160 RG58/59 fine as long as the runs are not in the several hundred feet range. 2. The Beverages need to be as far a
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00080.html (8,984 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: LP/Skew/ Geoclock? (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 20:36:08 -0500
- To add fuel to the fire, my favorite for greyline map is" DX Atlas". I also keep my very old and well used slide rule "DX Edge" handy, just in case but the DX Atlas map is much prettier...and is on a
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00156.html (6,890 bytes)
- 8. Topband: shunt fed verticals (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:07:32 -0400
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- /archives//html/Topband/2005-04/msg00070.html (7,352 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: CQ 160 WW experience (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:58:48 -0500
- My experience was quite different. I only S&P'd from USA east coast and had a fantastic time. Lots of weak EU stations were in there, you just had to dig em out. Sorry but sometimes sending ones call
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00415.html (7,940 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: Calling without hearing (was CQ 160 WW) (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:10:39 -0500
- Tom: In my humble opinion turning off the spotting network would go a very long way to solving the problem. It amazes me how many guys dump their calls when a spot shows up, even if they have not ide
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00418.html (8,248 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: New rules? (Was CQ 160 WW) (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:34:09 -0500
- There is. Leave the rules as they are, improve our stations and get on and have fun. It only happens one weekend a year. Me, I will slug it out my way, enjoy the challenge and do the best I can with
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00443.html (8,037 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: CW speed (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:51:51 -0500
- How correct Tom is: After 40 years I can still turn a 2 into a 3 or a v into a u as often as not. It seems to happen more frequently as I get older....but I'm not that old yet so must be sometimers d
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00228.html (8,191 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: burying radials (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:09:10 -0400
- If you must do something else why not sow them in. Take a ground rod and drill a smallish hole in one end and use the rod as a needle to thread the radial under the existing thatch or whatever is on
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00060.html (8,125 bytes)
- 14. Topband: WAS is easy (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:17:06 -0500
- To carry this one step further did you all know that the W3LPL gang made DXCC on Topband during CQWWCW? This is the first time it has been done in a weekend from USA. WAS or DXCC, both difficult task
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00103.html (6,216 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Pneumatic device for throwing antenna wire over the top ofa tree (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:09:46 -0400
- Yes. Been there done that. Until you have used a tennis ball gun you don't know how easy and accurate you can be putting lines over branches, inside a tower etc etc. Slingshots are like using a TS520
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-10/msg00053.html (8,325 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: QSL or CFM or R? (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:24:53 -0500
- Bill you nailed it. You must get a confirmation of some type. I personally prefer to send GL on cw or "good luck" on the rare times I'm on ssb. 73 works too. CFM seems popular in EU. If I call you an
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00318.html (7,327 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: 160 QSO K1N (score: 1)
- Author: bob finger <finger@goeaston.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:08:46 -0500
- I have the island confirmed from way back in the early 70's I think it was. Therefore I kept out of the pile ups on all bands (my normal procedure) in order to give those who "need it" an opportunity
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00449.html (10,068 bytes)
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