- 1. Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "jsloss" <k7mks@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:01:22 -0700
- Am contemplating trying top band this fall/winter with a goal toward chatting, WAS, and some DX. Antenna likely will be an inverted L. As I plan the station a few questions come to mind: Will 100W be
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00067.html (6,733 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave G4GED" <daves_shack@tiscali.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:32:39 +0100
- Joe, Why dont you just connect-up your 100W to your inv L and get operating. Best way to learn about the band. You'll work plenty and can think about increasing power and other refinements as you ga
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00068.html (7,783 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:01:45 -0700
- Be sure to put in as many radials as you can. You're gonna want the amp. Especially from the left coast. Yes. Look forward to working you on topband. 73, Jim K9YC ____________________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00069.html (7,717 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:52:44 +1200
- Hi Joe, As one of the "DX" stations that you may be thinking of working, I would strongly recommend some "steam". Although barefoot QSO's happen, and fairly often too, they are still the exception ra
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00070.html (7,933 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "W2RU - Bud Hippisley" <W2RU@frontiernet.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:33:47 -0400
- chatting, WAS, and some DX. Antenna likely will be an inverted L....The 160m station will be vintage gear. Make sure your "vintage gear" isn't generating key clicks. There's no quicker way to become
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00071.html (8,086 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: RK <midnight18@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:35:01 +0000
- Dear Joe k7mks, First off all, long time no see but very glad you are interested in Top-Band. You pose some of the best questions I've seen on the reflector in a long time. Bring on the Drake "C" Lin
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00074.html (8,691 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Kavanagh <ve3osz@rac.ca>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:54:17 -0400
- "Why dont you just connect-up your 100W to your inv L and get operating. Best way to learn about the band. You'll work plenty and can think about increasing power and other refinements as you gain ha
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00079.html (8,633 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Greg - ZL3IX <zl3ix@inet.net.nz>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:24:09 +1200
- Hi Bob, I basically agree with you about a starting point, but I am very glad that I do have an amp to use. It's fine for you guys living in NA never to use an amp, but stuck here in the middle of th
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00080.html (8,515 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Carl Clawson" <carlclawson@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:38:08 -0700
- Oh yes you do. At 100 watts you are running several stages of power amplifiers. They just happen to be built into the same box as the rest of your transceiver. If you really had no amplifier you'd b
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00081.html (8,611 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: Getting started on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:32:54 -0700
- I appreciate your advice, Bob, and I never owned or used an amp until about four years ago, nor have I ever had aluminum in the air. BUT: 160M is VERY different from the west coast than it is from th
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-07/msg00000.html (6,746 bytes)
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