- 1. Re: Topband: Stew Perry Contest (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:42:14 -0700
- Hi Robb, Congratulations on getting on 160m. It's a fun band, even from a small city lot like mine. I ran my K2 at 5 watts to a shunt-fed 60 foot tower. Worked 51 contacts in limited part-time S&P pa
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00009.html (7,918 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: ? Key-clicks FT1000MK-V field ? (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:49:24 -0700
- Hi Bill, I believe that Yaesu won't make the needed changes for two related reasons: 1) Updating the design of current "in production" ft1000-class transceivers would be admitting that there is a pro
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00220.html (9,749 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: RE: Key-clicks FT1000MK-V field (Doug Waller) (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:28:39 -0700
- On 1/19/05 10:40 AM, "Fred Handscombe" <fredch@homeshack.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: Good suggestion Fred. US Address is: Vertex Standard US Headquarters 10900 Walker Street Cypress, CA 90630 I've alread
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00246.html (8,039 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: condx this morning (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:13:20 -0700
- Hi John, This week on 160m has been very interesting. Some of the JA stations have been so strong around 5am (Denver time) that they were easily copied on my bedside R-75 with just an 8-foot wire ver
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00065.html (7,529 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Sloper Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:01:15 -0700
- Hi Bill, I built the antenna described in the March 1998 QST called "A Reduced-Size Half Sloper For 160 Meters" (and reproduced in the "ARRL's Wire Antenna Classics" publication, chapter 7). Mine is
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00183.html (8,683 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: The "Contest" this past weekend (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:27:08 -0700
- On 3/7/05 11:48 AM, "Dick and Adele Bingham" <binghamstehekin@starband.net> wrote: Hi Dick, I'll venture a guess as to why 160m seemed dead. During a contest such as the ARRL DX contest, most ops don
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00084.html (7,897 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: 18HT operation on 160M (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie (Gus) Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:46:45 -0600
- A few years ago I acquired a Hy-Tower from an estate sale. It had been modified to permit full power on 160m while using an 80/160m loading coil at the base (rather than the inverted-L add-on). To pr
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00183.html (8,558 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Franklin antenna. & 1/2 wave verticals. (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie (Gus) Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:03:49 -0700
- As a project for an Electromagnetic Fields and Waves course I was taking back in the early 1960s I plotted the elevation patterns of unsegmented verticals of various heights. The objective was to pr
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00216.html (8,461 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: FairRite Products 2873000202 (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie (Gus) Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 19:09:31 -0700
- I recently bought a quantity of the equivalent part (BN-73-202) from Amidon along with some small diameter Teflon tubing (recommended to reduce capacitance between windings). They're in Costa Mesa, C
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00063.html (7,945 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: kh8si (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie (Gus) Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:11:29 -0600
- The biological alarm clock was used by the famous Gus Browning. He determined calibrated amounts of liquid to drink at bedtime to wake him at the time when the DX would be active. QST did a nice side
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00006.html (7,402 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Beverage feed line...too long? (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:31:00 -0600
- You will find a lot of good information about receiving antennas, including performance comparisons, at the following URL: http://www.w8ji.com/receiving.htm Tom's site contains a lot of other useful
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-09/msg00111.html (6,796 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Inverted L or 1/4 wave sloper? (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:11:31 -0700
- Hi Rys, My tower is 58 feet tall and supports an LPDA at 60 feet (plus some 6m antennas at 70 feet, but they don't influence the top-loading significantly). Regarding your shunt-fed tower: - What kin
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-11/msg00210.html (8,511 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: End Fed Twin Lead Marconi Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:48:55 -0600
- Nine (9) is in fact an odd number. But those wires are not actually radials. The WWV antennas are half-wave verticals, that is dipoles, not monopoles. The bottom half of each antenna is constructed t
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-03/msg00034.html (8,315 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: " T" (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:17:50 -0600
- No. The top of the tee antenna is twice the "left-over" length, providing a balanced, non-radiating horizontal top load for the vertical segment if the horizontal wire is straight across. Gus Hansen
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00051.html (7,015 bytes)
- 15. Topband: W1BB equipment photos (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie \"Gus\" Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:10:42 -0700
- Fellow Topbanders, This past summer I was in Rhode Island for my son's wedding and had time for a visit to the New England Museum of Wireless and Steam in East Greenwich. What a treat that was. Bob,
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00345.html (7,286 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: HK0NA Logs (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie \"Gus\" Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:04:38 -0700
- From the HK0NA "Latest News" entry for 12 Jan 2012, "We intend to upload the HK0NA logs to ClubLog soon after the arrival of the main operating team. Don't bother checking the "Log Online" until then
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-01/msg00169.html (7,307 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie \"Gus\" Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:26:20 -0700
- Hi Jim, Thanks for the contact in the 160m contest. (I could have used a call from you in the SSB sweepstakes in which I missed a sweep by only UT.) I offer an observation based on this most recent c
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00099.html (10,191 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Augie \"Gus\" Hansen" <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:02:35 -0700
- Hi Jim, as in "CQ TEST KB0YH", with about a 1-2 second loop delay. I have NEVER found a CQ repeat interfal less than 2.5 seconds to be adequate to actually LISTEN for callers, and I often use 3 secon
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00122.html (10,805 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: Are stacked verticals feasible? (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 14:46:29 -0600
- Included among the many have been a number of medium wave broadcast stations, influenced I'm sure by the promise of intense low angle radiation, which covers the region where most of the recipients o
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-09/msg00069.html (12,110 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: 5/8 wavelength vertical is mo betta than shorterversions?? (score: 1)
- Author: Augie Hansen <augie.hansen@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 13:54:04 -0600
- On 9/8/2013 1:08 PM, Charlie Cunningham wrote: ... I didn't have time to get back to it today because I got all bolluxed up trying to include an attachment to my reflector post. Also, even trying to
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-09/msg00104.html (10,621 bytes)
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