- 1. Re: Topband: 160m L and 80m Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:08:07 -0500
- Trevor What you describe is very similar to the set up that I have here. I have a 65' mast with a 10' horizontal fibreglass pole just below the top. My 66' 80m quarterwave runs up to one end of the f
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00444.html (9,527 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: WD-1A wire (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 17:36:24 +0100
- Roger I have four beverages here and they all use WD-1A. They work very well. My only issue is that, during the summer, the calves love to chew the wire. The older heifers and cows ignore it, by and
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-06/msg00030.html (8,394 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: WD-1A wire (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:02:33 +0100
- Roger I run my four 900 foot beverages in parallel (E/W and N/S) with WD-1A. They are generally about 1m apart, but the N/S beverages are much closer than that at various points. They also pass throu
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-06/msg00045.html (9,533 bytes)
- 4. Topband: FW: 160m Vertical Ideas? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:16:09 +0100
- Is it possible to run a 128 foot wire to the top of the 89 foot tower, then across to the top of the 102 foot tower? If the towers are 35 feet apart, that gives you pretty much a 160m quarterwave. As
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00257.html (7,852 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: CQ WW CW 160m observations (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:56:44 -0500
- Trevor I worked 123 US stations on topband over the weekend, including Gary KA1J (thanks!) and a couple in Zone 3. However, I think conditions were not great and it seemed on several occasions that t
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00126.html (9,586 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Conditions on 160m for ARRL Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 04:54:29 -0500
- Roger I think the beacons towards the bottom of the band are fishing nets (drift nets) in eastern Europe/Asia. They are VERY loud on my east beverage. I use 1812.60 to call CQ because that falls nice
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00117.html (8,155 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long) (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 18:32:53 +0100
- That is very sad news, but thank you for a such a personal insight into Jack's station and his life, Jeff. I'm sure the tributes to Jack will be almost endless, such was his status. His signal was aw
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-10/msg00111.html (22,212 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: BOG near noisy power line on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:49:00 -0500
- If the 'noisy' line is an HV one, I would terminate my beverage well short of 20 feet. My north beverage picks ups pwr line noise when the wx is rain, drizzle, snow, foggy, misty... It ends about 80
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-02/msg00087.html (9,491 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: VE6WZ at sunset in Ukraine (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 13:35:25 -0500
- Hi, Doug Many thanks for the boost in confidence. I am totally deaf in one ear and also have extreme tinnitus. I can clearly hear VE6WZ in the recording and feel massively boosted that my hearing is
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-12/msg00041.html (11,432 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: Good Conditions, little NA Activity (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:03:50 -0500
- Roger I think that Mike makes a very good case. A good number of us who enjoy topband do not tend to use it for working the same stations over and over again and definitely not for ragchewing. I enjo
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-01/msg00052.html (11,112 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Conditions for Stew Perry Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:40:20 +0100
- I forgot the contest was on. I came on around 0630 UTC, called CQ and was called shortly after by KL7SB, who was 599 here. It was good to work a few more NA around our SR, including VE6WZ who was pea
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-10/msg00119.html (7,793 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: DXE Thunderbolt (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 07:09:54 -0500
- David I used to do exactly what you asked. I joined a 6m aluminium scaffold pole to an 18m Spiderpole using one of the couplers sold by Barenco https://www.barenco.co.uk/products/brackets-clamps/pole
- /archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00077.html (8,550 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: CQ Zones (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 09:17:32 -0500
- Hi, Dave Zone 23 - JT5DX will be your man. He is active in contests and puts out a good signal. Zone 24 - will be more of a challenge. I have worked XX9D and a couple of BY stations. But you may need
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-03/msg00031.html (9,410 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:46:52 +0100
- I'm afraid that I as soon as I saw the email header I guessed there would be mention of an Expert amp. If you have the opportunity to borrow a more reliable amp and try that, I would be interested in
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-10/msg00084.html (12,020 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: 160M DX Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:54:35 -0500
- Hi, Mike I have witnessed this several times and it seems to be on the increase. I often listen on 160m and hear quite a few DX stations answering a CQ from an EU station, but apparently not being he
- /archives//html/Topband/2021-12/msg00044.html (9,623 bytes)
- 16. Topband: 1940Hz Intruder (score: 1)
- Author: "Ian Fugler" <zen90387@zen.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 12:42:48 -0500
- I was wondering whether it might be a Traveller's Info Station on 1610 Hz? There is one listed in Westchester, NY and several in NJ on 1610. I have no knowledge of them, but they sound like the sort
- /archives//html/Topband/2023-01/msg00026.html (6,488 bytes)
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