Please lets send reminders for this contest next weekend. If I remember it I will play with a loading coil to get my 1/4 wave 80m vertical resonant on the top band. ~73 Don KD8NNU -.- -.. --.. -. -.
I am requesting opinions on what would work best for 160m based on a bottom loaded vertical or inverted L. I have in the past used and inverted L for 160m using a common feed with my 80m vertical. Th
Thanks everyone for all the replies. I guess that I will work on several things now for the next winter season. First is the standby length of wire to use as an inverted L which I used as a fan verti
I have been listening on 160m this afternoon hoping to catch a local guy or two. I have not been on the air for weeks so I am wondering what time we might be able to hear signals on the band. I am in
Lime away will clean it also . But you have to rinse the wire off to remove residuals. ~73 Don KD8NNU FH#4107 -.- -.. --.. . . ..- Hi and thanks for reading. I'm trying to splice a damaged (rodents)
I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH. I did however get 5 new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more contacts for my WAS on 160m phone. My antennas are an inverted L
Tod I think you hit my real problem yesterday. All the states that I was hoping to contact out west were doing S&P just like me. :-) Maybe I should try and sit still and just run one frq for once in
Dear Group I know that there is an AlexLoop in the South Lyon MI area that is at someones contest station. I lost the contact information for the person who has the station. (deleted a folder in my e
I was going to post something about my experience this weekend. I logged a few short contacts and went to bed and got up at 1:00 AM Eastern time which was about 5:00 UTC. I head only local guys and t
Dear Topband Group, I need to make a noise finding antenna that I can take in my vehicle to look for a source of noise on 160m and 80m bands. My google searches have not yielded much information on s
Well I made some progress tonight on the way home. I used my mobile rig with hamsticks to listen while driving on the way home from work. I tuned to 3.902 which is a very strong frequency that gets t
Dear Group I have hit the limits of my antenna's and have come to the realization I am more TX than RX, which I guess is the norm for the topband and 80m. Anyway am considering putting a second recei
Hi Tom Thanks for your comments in the email below. I have a 80m noise that is from a local house source and your comments below have me thinking about how to implement a vertical noise sense antenna
I was driving all day to get home from holiday visits so I had a short SP for me. I needed CA and AK to finish my WAS 160m for CW and I did manage two CA contacts so hopefully they will confirm on LO
I hope an AK contact that uses LOTW shows up and I can work them from MI. That would give me WAS on 160m CW. ~73 Don KD8NNU 2014 3905CC Top Gun :-) -.- -.. --.. -. -. ..- --Original Message-- From: G
Was AK on last night? I was still in bed with the flu and never got on the air. I will be getting on tonight but my target is AK as I need that state confirmed in LOTW to get 160m WAS confirmed. Than
WL7E was spotted about 11:30 UTC , I listened on the spott frequency till just before sunrise in MI and I never heard him. He was spotted multiple times on and others were making calls but they were
Contest its a no no and we all know that and it usually in the rules. But I am not a power station or a highly wanted call unless you want to work me because I am 5 miles from downtown Hell Michigan.
Interesting split ~73 Don KD8NNU FH#4107 -.- -.. --.. . . ..- Just a reminder about the 630m crossband activity night this evening. There have been two updates to the plan: VE7SL will start one hour