- 1. TopBand: Re: Inverted-L vs T Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:08:47 -0500 (EST)
- It will still be a vertical radiator, since the current in the flat top is out of phase and maximum near the intersection of the vertical wire. Assuming a resonable ground system (perhaps ten, twenty
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00010.html (8,319 bytes)
- 2. TopBand: Re: N4KG 160 system ? (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 12:59:03 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Bill, First a point of humor. I fully expect in a few years the real truth will come out. No radials are better than 120 radials, and the less radials we use the better our signals will be. The sh
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00028.html (8,163 bytes)
- 3. TopBand: Nasty Comments (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:12:55 -0500 (EST)
- I think all this rubbish is out of place. This has become a place to bash equipment we personally don't like, promote stuff we sell for profit, and slam everyone else's operating in a most personal m
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00174.html (6,948 bytes)
- 4. TopBand: Some antenna help from you... (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:54:02 -0500 (EST)
- Karl, You waste a lot of space where you could be helpful being "Karl". That statement is totally incorrect. There is NO conbination of reactance and resistance that gives a 1:1 SWR except when react
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00265.html (10,069 bytes)
- 5. TopBand: Some antenna help from you... (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:56:57 -0500 (EST)
- It is impossible to place a reactive load across a SWR meter and make it read 1:1. Such talk is non-sense based on folklore. Incorrect values of readings at high SWR's are one thing, 1:1 SWR readings
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00273.html (9,427 bytes)
- 6. TopBand: re: SWR meters (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 08:00:04 -0500 (EST)
- I put my meters on a polygraph..... Seriously, that's right Wes and one of the points I was trying to make in the middle of all the growling. It is impossible to get a 1:1 SWR with any load reactance
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00282.html (7,693 bytes)
- 7. TopBand: Some VSWR tests (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 22:35:43 -0500 (EST)
- This is not intended to inflame anyone, but a look through Walt Maxwell's Relections or other transmission line textbooks might be helpful. This is really too much to explain on a reflector. Bill (wh
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00291.html (7,788 bytes)
- 8. TopBand: Re: VSWR tests again and again (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:04:41 -0500 (EST)
- Hey good suggestion! If Bill does only have four radials (even elevated) he can have considerable common mode (the stuff that follows the OUTSIDE of the cable and flows all the wrong places) current.
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00298.html (7,771 bytes)
- 9. TopBand: Re: Beverage (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:10:18 -0500 (EST)
- << >>Hi Lee. I obtain about 20 dB f/b in my two wire Beverages. NI8G copied my system, and acheived the same results. There is no reason, other than improper design or installation, that a reversable
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00378.html (7,613 bytes)
- 10. TopBand: QST Antenna Tuner Review (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:59:50 -0500 (EST)
- << To be sure, there are some tuners that are better than others. N4XM's looks like the best of the bunch. But a little extra work outside means less expensive shack heating inside. Actually if you a
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00382.html (8,594 bytes)
- 11. TopBand: Re: Beverage (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:59:52 -0500 (EST)
- << I would like to know if the design of the 2-wire, reversible Beverage depends on "certain assumptions" that may not be widely known. (I don't know!) Such as; ground conductivity between the ends,
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00383.html (8,545 bytes)
- 12. TopBand: Re: Beverage (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 23:47:28 -0500 (EST)
- << All good information but certainly not in the realm of the popular press. Maybe Tom would like to share the FULL design info, including the transformers. Then we would all have a chance to build a
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00403.html (9,616 bytes)
- 13. Re[2]: TopBand: QST Antenna Tuner Review (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:51:38 -0500 (EST)
- << bet all that paralleling and unparalleling as you change frequencies and bands is really fun stuff. Wonder why they aren't around anymore? 73 Paul N4XM The system used in the Ten Tec is excellent
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-02/msg00425.html (8,229 bytes)
- 14. TopBand: MFJ Tuners, etc (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:37:55 -0500
- Hi Carl, My goal was to improve the understanding of power ratings, not to make you or any other manufacturer "happy or unhappy". My main point was the tuner rating "system" used BY ALL MANUFACTURERS
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00046.html (11,497 bytes)
- 15. TopBand: MFJ Tuners, etc (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:38:04 -0500
- Unlike the "3 KW Dentron", the 1500 watt 80 meter up (1000 watt 160 meter rated) ATR-15 used more expensive lexan supports, heavier inductor wire, more capacitance on 160, a #8 coil for ten meters th
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00047.html (7,841 bytes)
- 16. TopBand: JY9QJ Mess (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 16:37:20 -0500
- Whining? My, we sure are becoming a brotherhood of 160 ops. Other than that dart, you are correct Bob. DX stations need to take control better. Along with that, USA stations need to use more common s
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00048.html (7,387 bytes)
- 17. TopBand: Manners (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:15:17 -0500
- I understand your point, and mostly agree. It is a good place to encourage operating practice changes, and to exchange technical information. I think we *need* to keep on each other about operating p
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00062.html (7,272 bytes)
- 18. TopBand: Operating Practice (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 20:15:44 -0500
- it Hi Ron, Perhaps they missed hearing the W6-W7 request. I think most people really do try to follow the DX stations instructions... they just may not copy the DX station as well as we do at the mom
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00101.html (7,859 bytes)
- 19. TopBand: Slinkys impedance (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:46:23 -0500 (EST)
- When the distributed series inductance of a longwire is increased, the impedance increases while the velocity of propagation decreases. Slowing the velocity of propagation increases directvity of a l
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00177.html (7,828 bytes)
- 20. TopBand: Beverage resistors (score: 1)
- Author: W8JITom@aol.com (W8JITom@aol.com)
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 05:14:00 -0500 (EST)
- You don't seem to be missing anything. Grounding the far end of the wire can't possibly make a difference, and I don't think a choke would either. Shorting the resistor out with a heavy jumper would
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-01/msg00203.html (7,518 bytes)
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