I've read that the minimum lengths for ground radials is no shorter than the height of the antenna and that 50% of ground losses occur in the first one-quarter wavelength distance from the antenna. T
Roger G3YRO and a French station (F6AGM?) made it into the log. I heard several other EU stations with nice signals but did not work them as they were in QSO and my operating time was only during TV
Hello Jose No copy on you last night in PA using my E/NE BOG. 73 Mark K3MSB _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
I don't think so. In my Electromagnetic Fields and Waves class in EE school (way back when dinosaurs just stopped roaming the earth and Constellations still graced the skies...) the prof derived the
Rats. I was working on my Johnson Valiant last night and forgot it was 160 activity night. I have maybe 2 to 3 more weeks before the BOG and RBOG antennas get taken down as well as the INV-L radials
Carl I learned that polarization is not predictable after the first ionospheric bounce. 73 Mark K3MSB _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Huge day for me this morning.... After several years of trying, I worked my first VK on Top Band! Well, actually my first 2 Vks!! Ron VK3IO had the honors at about 1045Z. Here's a recording of him CQ
Hi Roger All my 160M antennas have been taken down for mowing season. I plan to put up a NE/SW RBOG for the KH1 DXpedition. Instead of ground radials for the INV-L I plan on experimenting with a pair
Greetings Fellow Night-Owls! My 160 meter antennas are typically put up in mid November and taken down at the end of March as my wife likes the grass mowed on a regular basis. The transmit antenna is
Greetings I worked my first Zone 17 and Zone 18 stations last December within (about) an hour of each other. What interests me is that the bearing from me to those two stations were within 10 degrees
I had to go rummage around my Trash folder to find the original post that started this: From the FT8 arguments in addition to the "millennials causing the WWV shutdown" argument, it appears that the
For my case its pretty simple. As long as the grass is growing and needs mowed, no 160M antennas. Typically Nov 1 is when I do the last mowing, and it takes several weeks afterwards to get everything
Hi Steve I'd be delighted to take a crack at working you. Last April Phil VK6GX heard my CQ and answered me, but I was unable to hear him. I was beating my head against the table, and for some added
Im about 160 miles NE of Jim WS6X and was on last night at the same time as he was. Like Jim, I had no problems working R3LA or LZ1PM. LZ1PM Was holding court for a long time last night! I barely had
One of the reason you make an INV-L a bit longer is to address the capacitance you need to tune out the inductive reactance. Capacitance and capacitive reactance is an inverse relationship. See attac
I used double runs of WD-1A for my RBOG last year and it worked nicely. For each run I combined the two wires of the WD-1A. 73 Mark K3MSB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.
This morning was surreal..... I couldn't sleep so I got up around 0900Z, had a cup of coffee, read for a while, then went down to the shack. I worked 3D2AG on 80M CW and was listening to him put in a
I've been using the Logikit CMOS 4 Electronic Keyer (the K5s little brother) for so long I cant remember when I got it. The only drawback is that the original buttons wear out; thats a known issue wi