- 1. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:26:41 +0000
- I put up a 1/2 wave Inverted V ( each leg is about 140' ) for 160M in January of this year just so I could do inband SO2R in the CQ160 CW contest. It has its apex at 40' and the ends are at 5'. I wou
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- 2. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:42:58 +0000
- "So are the others (Brian?) talking about a true coax-fed 160m inverted-vee? If so, I'm interested! Jeff VE3CV" No, Jeff. I feed it with ~320' of Ladderline to a 4:1 Balun and then around another 150
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00108.html (12,175 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Inv L in Tree (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 11:22:00 +0000
- Ed, Gary and All, Seeing as I have had my Inverted L ( 85' / 27M vertical ) against my tree's trunk ( actually touching it - oops ) since I installed it, and as I also have tress in the elbow, I may
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-10/msg00009.html (9,482 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long) (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:29:22 +0000
- A friend of mine ( who to this day knows absolutely nothing about radio, propagation or especially antennas ) and I worked together about 30 years ago and when he found out I was doing radio he immed
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-10/msg00156.html (9,946 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: : V84SAA (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:23:18 +0000
- Hi Gary 'et al' Don't feel too bad. I haven't missed a V8 SS yet and only this morning did I hear them for about 10 sec on 80 at 219 and then I heard them briefly at 109/ ESP on 160 a bit later on. T
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00114.html (9,749 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Unsubscribe (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:45:59 +0000
- Subscribe _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
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- 7. Re: Topband: RFI on TB (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:55:26 +0000
- You can put me in that group as well. Here are just two recent examples. VE3MGY 2018 ARRL 160 -1001 QSOs - QSOs Received on TX antenna alone - 996 (99.5 %) VE3MGY 2019 CQ160CW - 938 QSOs - QSOs Recei
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-07/msg00091.html (10,807 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: 160 skip distance (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:38:35 +0000
- Hi Jerry and group, I was one of those stations Jerry. I worked you at 1712z and 1717z on 2008-01-05. I was running 100 watts and the distance was 1200km. We gave each other 549 reports IIRC ( from m
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- 9. Re: Topband: 160 skip distance (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:40:50 +0000
- Sorry, the second QSO was at 1726z not 1717z. ________________________________ From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca> Sent: September 17, 2019
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-09/msg00082.html (9,601 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: ZK3A (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <VE3MGY@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 18:39:38 +0000
- Hi Shelby, The exact same thing happened to me. However on a later update both the 160 CW and FT8 QSOs were in the log. 73, Brian VE3MGY Anyone else work ZK3A today about 0610Z, and the contact not a
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-10/msg00032.html (7,710 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: CQ WW Contest (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:43:24 +0000
- I couldn't agree with you more Guy. Condx were reported as being any where from poor to below normal for some to being excellent to the best ever by others. The latter mostly being from Eastern NA. I
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-01/msg00356.html (11,201 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: NVIS Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:18:11 +0000
- Back in 2017 I put up a 160M Inverted V with the apex at about 35' and the ends at 8' with the only goal being to try inband SO2R on 160M. My reasoning was the V "should" be able to work stations out
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-03/msg00191.html (10,349 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: CQWW160: Night 2 (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:24:51 +0000
- This enhancement also happened in SW Ontario. I was also LP ( unassisted ) so as I S&P'd I would enter each call into the bandmap ( dupe or not ) to keep track of what trace was who so I could pop ba
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00137.html (9,856 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: CQWW160: Night 2 (score: 1)
- Author: Brian Campbell <ve3mgy@hotmail.ca>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:00:36 +0000
- Correction on the opening time typo ( still tired ). It was from 0251z to 0623z ( not 0215z ). ________________________________ From: Topband <topband-bounces+ve3mgy=hotmail.ca@contesting.com> on beh
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00138.html (10,892 bytes)
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