I Havnt seen any issues here. Uploaded a few files a week ago and noticed some new qsls the other day. Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - topband@
I think you have a bad connector somewhere - I will guess there is a pl259 going into that choke balun - you may have a poorly made connection to the coax which shorts out at high power. I don't thin
Re posts on conditions and signal reports i agree but Actually call sign AND location as the two aren't always the same so location above all should be mentioned. Even and especially tie of US based
I agree the BOGs are great for local crud reduction and in a suburban area while the DX performance isn't great, the S/N impact just from ducking the noisy switched power supplies, chargers, garbage
If you have nasty and persistent local Electical noise ie from arcing insulators and nearby electrical crud from devices and a constant s9 or strong noise floor the mag loop will work wonders only be
Re a portable oscilloscope to look at noise signatures (the number of "points" on the waveform is a basic but good way and u can usually discern multiple sources too) is to use a audio spectrum analy
I thought this would be interesting material here from 1972 US Army white paper. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/742230.pdf 73 Pete W2PM Sent from my iPad _________________ Topband Reflector
Saw this earlier - time lapse of an auroral event from Sweden. Gave a unique new perspective on this. http://io9.com/watch-four-hours-of-aurora-borealis-compressed-into-thr-458606045 Sent from my iPa
Sad news indeed. Great op, great guy and my first VK on Topband. His Qsl still in shack on wall for that. Used to work him on 30 too. RIP and 73 Mike. Sent from my iPad All good topband ops know fine
That is very good news. FCC was never too ready to issue a citation for incidental radiators. That's what arrl and I did with Power company here a few years ago after extensive testing and results do
Covered many times here over the years. Yes mag loops wil help loads with local crud noise if they are in a certain direction you can null to. If the noise is all surrounding as it would be in many h
So when the Suns magnetic field reverses and the sap starts flowing in the opposite direction will that affect the conductivity any? Sent from my iPhone _________________ Topband Reflector
It seems to me as a user of many types of loops of all sizes in a noisy residential area, that there is still something beyond Lower take off angle from the long beverages vs these loops, and perhaps
I just sent this to the fellow in Waco. I'd recommend getting the PC ap called Zelscope which is a software based scope. It was ten bucks a few year ago. (there are also several free iphone aps which
The fact of the matter is in many cases in this country- ham radio "emergency" communications is not much more than a half step above water boy - very much marginalized and often the help thought of
I would just opine this is a colossal waste of spectrum - not in terms of bandwidth per se but the inefficiency and low information transfer rate. Moreover propagation testing is really not an issue