Excellent suggestion. Since the amp has an swr meter you can easily verify if it is tuned to 80 meters. Test it at the lowest power possible. _______________________________________________ UR RST I
The K3 sensitivity falls off severely below 160 meters. But if you have the IF option (KXV3) which provides a receive antenna port it does not have the filtering, and there is plenty of sensitivity o
K3 guys - dont forget you have synchronous AM detection on your K3s. When in AM mode, hold in the ALT button (right above POWER) and notice the AM indication becomes AM-S. Detune the AM slightly and
Frank, W3LPL recommends - I have been having a terrible problem with ticks this year in Central NJ. In my yard I have found Bifenthrin works fantastic. You need a sprayer that attaches to a garden ho
Someone asked me for the source for tick spray for the lawn. www.epestsolutions.com/ There may be others, but this one came up from an amazon search. The delivery took one day. What you want is bifen
Anyone else have a reliable direction on a different 2 pm in New Jersey. It is 3 S units above background noise with my NE terminated Beverage, S5 and S2. Rig -K3, 400 Hz bandwidth, cw-R mode, 1810.6
I removed the termination. Same signal level, S5. Now the real question is, does my Beverage have any f/b? Well, it is 550 ft long, 470 ohm termination, 9:1 transformer. Is this a waste of time, or u
ah-oh, not good news, Guys. The Chinese are in the business. Looks like here is one of our culprits. Check out the specs (freq. and emission) http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/218045564/Radio_Buoy
Don't you wonder what would happen, if 500 Topbanders all wrote a NICE, POLITE email to all the manufacturers of these devices, and in, say, 5-10 sentences or less simply asked them if they would min
So what do we know so far? No one has used an extremely sharp directional antenna like a loop, but the Beverages, KA9Ys, etc. from Maine to NC seem to be roughly pointing to the mid-Atlantic area lik
I'm coming to the realization after spending the better part of the last 24 hours working on my Beverages that we can't get meaningful data this way. Tom - do you think portable loops, say 2 ft on a
The signal on 1810 has been positively identified, and located ! One of our topbanders has triangulated it right down to the exact location, and done it from 800 miles away in Indiana. The credit goe
This is current status, as promised, to all the group on Topband reflector who have been interested in what was happening with the 1810 spur situation. The station engineer for WGYM, Hammonton NJ res
Hi Jeff, I'd say make the radials longer than you expect them to be, put on a carrier, and see if you can light a neon bulb at the end of a stick out at the end. As you approach the feedpoint the vo
"fine whiskey is a daylight beverage" is appended to the end of each posting. At first I thought it was the personal signature file of the individual poster but it is on everyone's posting. It was ki
I started the whole thing, not trying to make it an issue, but mostly I was confused when I first saw it because I thought it was a personal signature file, then saw everyone was using it ! Then fin
I have to admit to not realizing this matter was on the table. So the ARRL Board of Directors voted to petition the FCC on the strength of their collective wisdom, without asking the membership our o
No matter how impressive that discone antenna looks, it still is just a vertical, right? Nothing magical about the signal it radiates. I mean, you're not going to have DX falling all over you telling
Whatever you call this season - the off season, or the QRN season, or summer season, it sure has bought out some interesting posting this past week. I have enjoyed all the topics, rhombics, discones,
Yes, but right here on Topband we have many current-day worthy replacements for them. One can imagine the next generation may be talking about the likes of W8JI, W3LPL. K3LR, W2GD, and many others (