Jeff et al, Thanks for a most useful op aid Jeff - printed & on my wall for easy reference... Only one suggestion - not interference (my personal view, others may disagree!), but YR2TOP beacon is on
Hi, I've an 80m vertical that I want to use as my transmit antenna for topband. It's about 20.5m high. For reasons of weather survivial and because of the antenna construction my plan is to base load
All, Thanks for the comments & suggestions. The current solution is built using a 6m telephone pole topped by a 12m spiderbeam pole with a 1m whip addition. This approach has survived the worst weath
All, I've been searching for clarity and hard data on the effects of asymmetric radials on radiation patterns and efficiency of a vertical as I'm installing a 21m vertical for 80/160 and will have to
Scott et al, Take a look at the front end protector by OK1RR: http://www.ok1rr.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.35 It's an updated version of the original CQ Magazine '97 version with par
Hi All, Thanks to all stations worked/heard during the Stew Perry warm up this weekend. It was the first outing for my new 18m base loaded vertical for 80m/160m and the first time I've been back on 1
Hi All, This weekend I spent a bit of time dipping in to the ARRL 160m contest. Something that has struck me a lot over the past few contests on topband struck me yet again last night and I figured i
Hi, I was up early this morning (Tuesday 25th September) and heard W5UN come up on 160m at 0444utc. Though very weak and with deep QSB, he was by far and away the strongest on my K9AY when switched N
Hi all, Stew Perry warm up. View from the EI4HQ chair (operating EI100T): Friday night held such promise and I was consequently well geared up for Saturday. Early on Saturday evening though the rate
All, In reference to previous; confusion was caused (in part) by a broken power connection between shack & antenna that meant the relay that switches loop direction at the antenna (referred to as k2
Just a quick heads-up on what the ARRL160CW looked like from my chair (operating as EI100T from IO51uu near Cork); my log has just gone in with the grand total of 4 QSOs ;-) About 6 hours in the chai
Greetings, I worked NO3M... OK, OK, NO3M worked me ;-) at 0537z on 2015/09/17. Given this discussion I thought I'd add my ha'penny's worth as grist to the "how in goodness name does topband actually