- 21. Topband: Sharing radials?? [ SUMMARY ] (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Campbell" <VY2MGY@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:36:37 -0400
- Thanks to everone that sent in their thoughts, both on and off the list. There was alot of interest in this idea! The results were very interesting, and easy to sum up. EVERYONE agreed that sharing r
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00012.html (7,300 bytes)
- 22. Topband: KL7J this morning [ Wow ] (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Campbell" <VY2MGY@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:47:31 -0400
- Good morning KL7J had a REALLY pronounced, sharp, peak at local sunrise this morning at 1128z [ S5 on the meter and LOUD ] and was still at an S2 at 1143z [ sunrise plus 15 minutes ]. As I write this
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00075.html (7,029 bytes)
- 23. Re: Topband: End of season ???????? (score: 1)
- Author: "Brian Campbell" <VY2MGY@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:19:13 -0400
- Hi Bob 'et al' You can count me in for the summer as well. Even though I have rolled up 5 of my 6 beverages and half of the radials for the Inverted L are also rolled up, I learned a few years ago th
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00136.html (8,061 bytes)
- 24. Re: Topband: End of season ???????? (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:10:35 -0400
- I stand corrected, its not just QRN. I can't imagine being only groundwave 24 hrs a day... Then again I can't imagine having "one" night on 160M that lasts 6 months long! As many have said before, y
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00138.html (8,402 bytes)
- 25. Re: Topband: Using wires from large trees as verticals? (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:54:41 -0500
- I don't know about the Titanex vertical but I have been using a 1/4 wave Inverted L for 160 for years now and it runs up through a hardwood tree [ Manitoba Maple I believe ] and is fed against 140 1
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00109.html (9,597 bytes)
- 26. Topband: Has anyone seen this before?? (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:37:09 -0500
- Good Morning all This morning Japan was really loud into Ontario - 559 to 579 for all the JA's. If you needed Japan on 160 this may have been your morning. What happened here I have never seen before
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-12/msg00148.html (7,880 bytes)
- 27. Topband: Daylight QSO's during the SP (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:45:26 -0500
- Hello Topbanders During the SP I made 50 QSO's during the middle of the day. Of these 30 were farther than 500 km, 5 were farther than 800 km and two were at 1152 km. Those last two sounded exactly l
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-12/msg00234.html (7,918 bytes)
- 28. Re: Topband: Daylight QSO's during the SP (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:39:17 -0500
- When I responded to VE3MGY's original query about possible daylight distances on 160, I was assuming that Brian was referring to paths between stations that were *totally* in daylight. Clearly, if an
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00004.html (9,172 bytes)
- 29. Re: Topband: Daylight QSO's during the SP (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:27:57 -0500
- I would also be very interested in seeing how far I can both TX and RX at noon(ish) so if anyone makes any skeds please let all of us know so we can at least listen. Maybe there could even be a 2 or
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00020.html (8,452 bytes)
- 30. Topband: VK3IO This morning (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 08:56:47 -0500
- Ron ( VK3IO ) was a 589 this morning in VE3 on the TX antenna and even a 549 on the 270 beverage without preamping. It was the loudest I have heard him. By the sound of the pileup he was being heard
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00047.html (7,563 bytes)
- 31. Re: Topband: Daylight QSO (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 07:59:18 -0500
- I was QRV for about 1 hour around 1715z - 1815z on or about 1835 khz +/- andworked K9lA(IN), W3GH(PA), VE3QAA(ON), K1FK(ME), K8EJ(TN), K9NW(OH) and best of all K4SAV(AL) at 1200 km and W1IBQ(GA) at 1
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00057.html (8,114 bytes)
- 32. Re: Topband: Daylight QSO (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:59:43 -0500
- In that case my East - West QSO's yesterday happened when the terminator was ~9000 km to the East and ~11000 km to the West as per DX Atlas. That's why it was decided to try at or about local noon -
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00059.html (7,244 bytes)
- 33. Topband: Daylight QSO (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 08:47:54 -0500
- I absolutely agree. That may explain AL at 1200 km and GA at 1225 Km as the Terminator was at only 2700 km behind the path from my QTH. But not MN at 1020 km with the Terminator at ~9000 km (W) and ~
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00070.html (7,618 bytes)
- 34. Re: Topband: Partial Radial System (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:53:07 -0500
- During the summer months here in Ontario I have to take up all of my radials ( ~80 of them ) from ~080 degrees through to ~280 degrees in order to cut grass and tend to the gardens. Over the years I
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00092.html (7,634 bytes)
- 35. Topband: 160M Daylight QSO's - Conclusion (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:01:36 -0500
- Here are the results of 10 days of daylight testing on 160M with 100 watts into a Inverted L with 70' vertical and 55' horizontal and sitting on a 60' hill, sloping down in all directions. Radio used
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00095.html (7,690 bytes)
- 36. Re: Topband: Daylight 160 Sked (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:56:11 -0500
- I should mention that when I was running my daylight tests I found that EVERY station I copied always had the best SNR on my TX vertical. Most of the stations ( ~85 %) were not even audible on my bev
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00123.html (8,062 bytes)
- 37. Re: Topband: radials under Beverage (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:49:18 -0500
- Neil Due to the topography at my QTH all six of my 500' beverages start their run, for about 150' or so, over my Inverted L radial system as they leave the house and head out into the woods. I have
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00169.html (7,807 bytes)
- 38. Topband: JA openeing this morning (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 08:47:35 -0500
- A skewed JA path opened this morning in VE3. At 12:15z there was no copy here on the JA's but 1 minute later at 12:16z they popped out of the background QRN and were Q5 copy. JA7NI in particular was
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00010.html (7,174 bytes)
- 39. Re: Topband: Skewed Path To South Pacific...? (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:28:07 -0400
- Eddy and all I RDF'd Ron [ VK3IO ] this morning and he was loudest on the 270 beverage [ direct bearing is ~265 from here ] . Other openings this season he has been loudest on my 315 or 225 beverage
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-03/msg00042.html (7,775 bytes)
- 40. Topband: JA Opening this morning (score: 1)
- Author: "VE3MGY" <vy2mgy@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:08:10 -0400
- Very strong [ 559 ] JA opening this morning into Ontario [ VE3 ]. The interesting thing was while all signals were coming in skewed path over the Pacific on my 270 beverage, there was about one minut
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-03/msg00070.html (7,609 bytes)
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