- 1. Topband: How to File BPL Comments With the FCC (score: 1)
- Author: earlham at radiks.net (earlham@radiks.net)
- Date: Mon Aug 18 20:21:45 2003
- Greetings... I followed the instuctions in Bill T's earlier message. Had no problem filing my comments and getting a confirmation. I just went into the ARRL website and listened to the BPL test resul
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00090.html (10,638 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Some observations (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:51:27 -0600
- Topband DX propagation has been almost nil here in Iowa this year. Only heard a handful of the faithful from JA and EU so far this season. Tonight, however, I worked S92SS with big signals. He was pe
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00022.html (7,242 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Is There A Post Sunrise Peak? (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:18:56 -0500
- Here in Iowa, the famed "peak at sunrise" is not the normal occurrence...maybe one day in seven do I see any appreciable enhancement due to sunrise. The usual enhancement amounts to only a couple of
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00134.html (8,198 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Stew Perry Spots!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 14:06:26 -0600
- Topbanders... I was spotted last night. A ham friend here in town (who was not participating in the SP) spotted me, I'm sure thinking he was doing me a favor. Not a big deal...and there is no way of
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00292.html (8,242 bytes)
- 5. Topband: beverage assessment summary ( so far!) (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:18:08 -0500
- Condx last night here in Iowa were just plain pitiful. I couldn't even hear ON4UN on the receive antennas...couldn't even tell he was there! Oh well, I enjoyed myself anyway. 73...Dave W0FLS
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00301.html (6,606 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Coupling between bev and other antennas (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:23:49 -0500
- It's easy enough to measure the degree of coupling between beverage and TX antennas with a common signal generator. My experience in a quiet location with an elevated feed quarter wave vertical with
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-09/msg00115.html (9,126 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Feeding rotating towers (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 02:22:31 +0100
- I have a 130' rotating Rohn 55. I have my elevated feed 160 mtr vertical (w/2 elevated radials) off the 120' guy ring. I have not attempted to feed the whole tower yet. 73...Dave W0FLS
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-05/msg00179.html (6,583 bytes)
- 8. Topband: VK9ML (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 14:10:16 -0500
- VK9ML was on 1826.3 (listening up 3) again this morning. Springtime storms made copy almost impossible here in Iowa. However, between static crashes, the signal was there. I didn't hear many callers.
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00040.html (7,200 bytes)
- 9. Topband: VK9ML (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:09:57 +0100
- I feel very fortunate to have managed a qso on topband. It took a fair amount of effort. Both Friday and Saturday morning last week I thought I possibly had a good qso, but no cigar. Finally, Monday
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00056.html (7,143 bytes)
- 10. Topband: TEN-TEC IS LISTENING! (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 02:55:29 +0000
- I agree with Pete. In this class, you can't expect the sub-rx to do everything. Besides, in my own application, the only thing I ever really use the sub-rx for in my 1000mp is for finding the DX list
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00080.html (8,702 bytes)
- 11. Topband: 5u1a (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 17:38:28 -0600
- Last evening was an exercise in frustration...seemed like people both east and west of me (I'm in Iowa) were hearing the 5u1 on topband but only faint whispers and an occasional letter or two here. A
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00037.html (6,528 bytes)
- 12. Topband: The W8JI Receive 4 Square - long (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:50:50 -0600
- Topbanders... I became intrigued with W8JI's design for a short four square receiving array during his presentation last year at Dayton. This year, I lost my usual space for my 2-wire beverages. I wa
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00068.html (14,897 bytes)
- 13. Topband: W8JI RX 4 sq - more (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:54:28 -0600
- Group: I believe Tom's current design does not require vector voltmeters or other sophisticated equipment to get good results. When I said it is "easy" to build, I meant just that. Just follow the di
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00072.html (6,401 bytes)
- 14. Topband: W8JI vertical RX array - more (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 19:46:10 -0600
- Greetings... I have gotten many email regarding my earlier posting about the W8JI small vertical four square receiving array. Tom's website indicates that the article was posted July 3. Don't let tha
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00082.html (6,479 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Dedicated topband transceiver (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 22:42:59 +0000
- Key clicks are probably the single worst problem we have with new radios. Having just completed operating the NAQP contest, I can safely say that the problem is worse than ever. Fifteen or 20 years a
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00092.html (7,239 bytes)
- 16. Topband: Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (earlham@radiks.net)
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:42:03 +0000
- While it's nice to help solve the NB overload and clicks problems on the receive side, it's the lack of engineering attention to the transmit side that really has me concerned. Too bad we can't get s
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00101.html (6,601 bytes)
- 17. Topband: TS2000 (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowa guy)
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 03:16:49 +0000
- Key clicks are an ever increasing problem. Fifteen years ago they were almost non-existant. The significance of this problem will surely manifest itself in the upcoming contest this weekend. I agree
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00007.html (6,464 bytes)
- 18. Topband: 46 radials now on vertical/FT1000MP S/Nobservation (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowa guy)
- Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 03:16:51 +0000
- I recently did some extensive testing on my short receive only 4 square that I've been working on. In the process, I did some calibration of the FT1000MP S meter. I was a bit startled to see the resu
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00008.html (7,277 bytes)
- 19. Topband: Condx (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowaguy)
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:14:58 -0600
- Conditions last night to Europe from here in Iowa were about as good as they've been since the Stew Perry of four years ago. It was quite a surprise, having heard hardly anything to speak of out of E
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00149.html (7,228 bytes)
- 20. Topband: TS2000 (score: 1)
- Author: earlham@radiks.net (Iowa guy)
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:07:40 +0000
- Greetings topbanders. . . Does anyone out there have any experience on the lowbands yet with the new Kenwood TS2000? I do some weak signal work on 432 and 1296 and would like to do some rig consolida
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-11/msg00107.html (6,092 bytes)
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