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21. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:11:38 -0700
Come out to Colorado and you wont have the problem of mass European pile ups. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00116.html (8,583 bytes)

22. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 contest observation (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:00:40 -0700
Jim I note from QRZ that you have 133 countries contacted on 160 and yet you havent heard Europe in 2 years. Kinda puts into perspective what 160 is like for those of us in the West these days. KQ0C
/archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00122.html (8,808 bytes)

23. Re: Topband: Ends for older Phillystran (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:27:26 -0700
We sailors would wrap a line twice around the eye and then leave a longer tail and clamp that with some space between each clamp. The increased friction of 2 wraps around an eye/block/winch substanti
/archives//html/Topband/2014-01/msg00115.html (10,761 bytes)

24. Re: Topband: Ends for older Phillystran (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:11:06 -0700
As a very crude analogy what you want to be able to do is use a steel cable from the anchor through the middle of something like an automobile wheel, Then the Phillystran wants to take a couple of la
/archives//html/Topband/2014-01/msg00119.html (11,649 bytes)

25. Re: Topband: AM broadcast tower and 160m dxpedition (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:02:44 -0700
I would be especially mindful of corrosion issues in tower planning in the Caribbean. There was a recent article in the Contest Journal on the ever difficult tower corrosion experienced at PJ2T. ____
/archives//html/Topband/2014-02/msg00454.html (10,387 bytes)

26. Re: Topband: AM broadcast tower and 160m dxpedition (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:47:03 -0700
I thought a bit more about this while a beachfront/salt marsh location might be ideal for building an international broadcast facility, if you were building a station for domestic Haitian audiences y
/archives//html/Topband/2014-02/msg00469.html (12,359 bytes)

27. Re: Topband: Suggestions for a tower? (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:51:47 -0600
Or an easy and fairly good approach is to set up a sloper off the tower. The sloper acts as an inverted vertical ( inverted verticals work better than ground fed ones) and uses the grounded tower as
/archives//html/Topband/2014-04/msg00057.html (10,215 bytes)

28. Re: Topband: Using 80m 1/4 vertical on 160 (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:50:18 -0600
Ahh to be on the East Coast. No one works 250 countries from Colorado without a Herculean effort. KQ0C Ash _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2014-06/msg00010.html (9,556 bytes)

29. Re: Topband: Using 80m 1/4 vertical on 160 (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:52:29 -0600
I have the zero five 55 foot antenna which was custom built to actually be a full sized 80 meter antenna. It was affordable and has stood up well on a very windy mountain top. Performance is, of cour
/archives//html/Topband/2014-06/msg00019.html (10,768 bytes)

30. Re: Topband: Rig Question (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:09:34 -0600
The K3s (I have 2) come sounding pretty bad on SSB. But there are some standard settings for the equalizer which get them sounding pretty good. Im not sure why they dont leave the factory that way. A
/archives//html/Topband/2014-06/msg00123.html (16,571 bytes)

31. Re: Topband: Outdoor rope suggestions (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:00:27 -0600
If you dont mind the cost and want the best, Harken marine blocks. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2014-09/msg00022.html (9,114 bytes)

32. Re: Topband: New RF interference killing RX at my QTH (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:01:16 -0700
Be careful. It could be grow lights from an illegal pot operation. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2014-11/msg00040.html (11,921 bytes)

33. Re: Topband: CQWW160 Remote receiver rule (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:05:51 -0700
Perhaps another view. I live in the bottom of a deep valley where mountains occlude the horizon up to 15-degrees. So I bought some cheap mountain top property 15 miles from here. From that location D
/archives//html/Topband/2015-01/msg00133.html (10,787 bytes)

34. Re: Topband: CQWW160 Remote receiver rule (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 08:40:30 -0700
As the ham population ages historically many people have been forced to go off air when they move to retirement communities, assisted living situations etc. Lets not also forget what remote stations
/archives//html/Topband/2015-01/msg00314.html (15,849 bytes)

35. Re: Topband: Why do rodents eat coax? (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <ashton.r.lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 18:50:26 -0700
I had a pack rat problem, eating into cables and have completely cured the issue by running coax inside the inexpensive black tubing made for underground sprinkler systems. It comes in 100 and 500 fo
/archives//html/Topband/2015-11/msg00066.html (9,845 bytes)

36. Re: Topband: Vertical Antenna on a cliff above the Sea (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <ashton.r.lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 09:11:08 -0700
I have a small cabin and station on a mountain top. My experience is that horizontal antennas set right at a cliff face act as if they are much higher than their towers to the point that real towers
/archives//html/Topband/2015-12/msg00035.html (10,591 bytes)

37. Re: Topband: Am I the only one in step? (score: 1)
Author: Ashton Lee <Ashton.R.Lee@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:31:19 -0700
Im impressed that you could hear the US SSB stations. I have never heard NZ on 160. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00010.html (9,202 bytes)


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