- 81. Re: Topband: Fishing beacons redux (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 07:32:30 -0400
- Hi Robin, I had to smile to myself when I read your note! Here we are with our full-sized inverted "L" antennas & phased arrays coupled to legal limit amplifiers, yet we're receiving some stiff compe
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00032.html (9,037 bytes)
- 82. Re: Topband: Fishing beacons redux (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 10:02:19 -0400
- Amen to that reality, Milt...! ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00041.html (9,676 bytes)
- 83. Re: Topband: 1810 (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:12:30 -0400
- Hi Guys, Not to sound rude or demeaning, but do you know what I would suggest...? STAY OFF OF 1810-KHz. There's never any DX way down in that part of the band anyway... ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ __
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00126.html (7,435 bytes)
- 84. Re: Topband: 1810 (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 11:49:03 -0400
- Oh Brother...! Who would have thought that the Political Correctness Kops would have migrated down to 1.8-MHz in such earnest...?! A thousand apologies, sahib! I promise that I'll be a good little To
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00152.html (8,247 bytes)
- 85. Topband: Nice Condx! (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:32:52 -0400
- Hi Guys, I'm in the process here of installing my Icom 751A in the Topband operating position (and relieving my Yaesu FT-980), & this morning had occasion to tune around the band just to see "...what
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00186.html (6,866 bytes)
- 86. Re: Topband: Long Daytime Propagation (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 18:30:05 -0400
- Hi Jim, One of my personal pleasures in working the 160-meter contests is the fact that the band is surprisingly open at times that are unexpected... It's fun to work into the mid-West, and as far so
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00195.html (10,578 bytes)
- 87. Topband: The Stew Perry Challenge Warm Up... (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:09:13 -0400
- Wow...! What an absolutely disciplined, well-haved crowd of participants in the SP warm-up event...VERY refreshing. The bulk of the activity was above 1820-KHz, allowing ordinary everyday-type rag ch
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00271.html (6,693 bytes)
- 88. Topband: Travails of The New "Topband" Season... (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:07:29 -0400
- Good Day All, I am slowly unrolling all of the radial wires here for my seasonal three inverted "L" antennas--I say slowly because the arthritis in my knees has turned what USED to be a one day jaunt
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00288.html (7,169 bytes)
- 89. Topband: The State of the Union (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 09:58:15 -0400
- Hi All, Well, I'm happy to report that Sandy wasn't quite the "...Frankenstorm" that the media predicted it would be in these parts... ...Still, having said that, we did lose the better parts of thre
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00000.html (6,929 bytes)
- 90. Topband: Yippee...! (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:49:46 -0500
- Hi Guys, Well, I'm DELIGHTED to say that I've heard my first European DX of this season on Topband, in the form of DL6FBL calling CQ Contest...and this, a good half hour before my local sunset here.
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00115.html (6,475 bytes)
- 91. Re: Topband: PT0S (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:26:52 -0500
- There really should be a way of "...outing" some of these deliberate QRM generators... I realize that some of the stuff is being generated anonymously, but we all know the call signs of one, or more,
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00133.html (8,901 bytes)
- 92. Topband: Outing The Scofflaws... (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:00:05 -0500
- Here's an idea that I'll toss up into the air as a (possible) first step in bringing a few of these lawless characters to heel: Maintain some sort of an open-to-all web page that is frequented by wou
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00134.html (8,488 bytes)
- 93. Re: Topband: Outing The Scofflaws... (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:24:38 -0500
- Hi Bill, I thought of that, believe me, and have come to the conclusion that the very same idiots who deliberately jam DX-peditions are most likely simply frustrated by the fact that they never made
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00138.html (9,294 bytes)
- 94. Re: Topband: "Outing the Scofflaws" - Getting Old (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:05:41 -0500
- Hi Jerry, I beg to differ with you...! If this topic is considered to be "old", then it is so because no individual and / or group has bothered to take it on, and instead, have chosen to simply live
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00146.html (9,390 bytes)
- 95. Re: Topband: Covered /bare antennn wire (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:31:55 -0500
- Hi Bruce, I am not so sure that the notion of insulated vs. uninsulated wire holds true in long wire spans... Case in point: years ago when I first erected my 1500' long Beverage antenna here, I was
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00228.html (9,286 bytes)
- 96. Re: Topband: Covered /bare antennn wire (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:02:37 -0500
- Hi Bruce, I am a tad confused by your reasoning, so please excuse me...! Are you implying that "some" amount of voltage build-up is OK somehow? I don't get the logic in that--to me, it's all or nothi
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00231.html (8,109 bytes)
- 97. Re: Topband: High expectations for the Hi-Z (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:08:38 -0500
- Hi Mark, Sometimes the simplest of things can make the biggest of differences... Case in point: some years ago I was whining to my friend Ivan (VE3DO) about how I rearely heard any Europeans on Topba
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00293.html (8,640 bytes)
- 98. Re: Topband: ROD NEWKIRK, W9BRD/VA3ZBB SK (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:39:21 -0500
- Hi Bert, Many thanks for that note...very sad news, indeed. I grew up reading "How's DX?" in QST--I especially loved his "...continued adventures of grommethead schultz". Those stories were rip-roari
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00327.html (8,457 bytes)
- 99. Re: Topband: K9AY Question (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 06:36:50 -0500
- Hi Jim, FWIW, both of my K9AY loops are held aloft by the very same tree limb...! No problems here (at least none that I have been TOLD about yet, anyway! Hi Hi). ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ ________
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00355.html (6,564 bytes)
- 100. Re: Topband: Topband season dismal from Colo so far.... (score: 1)
- Author: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:32:28 -0500
- Hi Paul, This season on the band seems to be one which rewards only the most dedicated of operators: in other words, "You snooze, you lose!" as I have been guilty of doing so often here myself...! Ce
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00397.html (9,536 bytes)
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