Hello Topbanders, Sorry and warning long append !! asking for technical help. This is my first append here, I promise next will be very short. I am planning to be operative on 160 but my environmenta
Hi Robert, many thanks for the information so far, I will be looking for your update with your "package of hints" during the weekend if you have the time. Please do not forget to include your "half d
Hi all, I finally manage to install a kind of inverted V hanging from the corner of the building about 45 mts tall, so the building is more or less in the middle of the antenna. My rig is IC751A, In
Hi dear topbanders, I need your help please. I am a little confused about my result experiences in my fight against the noise and I will highly appreciate your thoughts to enlighten me. Loop descript
Many thanks for the answers so far, thank you very much for your time !!! Dick made me remember one point I forgot to mention and also is not clear for me. I have had, for all loops a clear directivi
Hi all, during this weekend, I will be testing on 160 to check my station capabilities to reach distant places. I will appreciate any reports you can give me via direct (a miracle) or via mail. I am
Many thanks for those to try to listen to my TX test during last week-end. Obviously I choose the wrong one, Propagation was awful even being accompanied by LU2DVI/H who has a wonderful reception con
Hi Jim and all, Yes I agree with you 100% on both paragraphs. I was testing with a kind of #78 material which is more effective at that fcy (around 1.5Mhz). I am using a home made High Pass Filter, w
Excellent Jim, many thanks.....and about point 1 & 2 I tried to point out how a good HPF could be partially bypassed by common mode current by Pin 1 problem. Edy.- LU2DKT ____________________________
Hi everyone, I have an inverted L on 160 with 15 mts of vertical side over a good ground. It measures Rin 15 ohms. I am planning to install another one a 1/4 wave away and phase them with 90 degrees
Hi everybody, I would like to try K9AY antenna for this CQWW mainly for 160 but after the contest I hope it to be usefull for 160 and 80. Q1: would it be possible to use a tree as a central support w
Hi all, I think I thanked all answers directly but just in case I missed someone, Many thanks for all replies !!!. General consense is that a we can use a tree as a main support without affecti
Dear Topbanders, I am planning my next move with the beverages and I would like to hear your opinions about 2 areas. Looking at the pattern response for beverages in for example ON4UN book, I found t
Many thanks Dean, Carl, Mike, Joel and the rest of you who shared your opinions about "why so many", probably I missed the point that 3 or 4 db in directivity loss because of deeps is much more impor
Martin, Carl and Bruce, many thanks for the graphics and suggestions. I think I can install one temporally to compare the results of a 900 feet against 600 feet. Many thanks to all for sharing opinio
James, That is very common from here, Sometimes during the whole contest I have a few seconds to work stations. I have to break just prior to the peak, exchange during the peak, and then the station
Dear people, I experience a situation that confused me a little bit. I have a vertical with 60 fence wire buried radials 1/4 wave long plus a ground rod. Prior to the contest I decided to check the b
Joe, John and Dean, many thanks for your answer and suggestions. I need to add that fence wire used is iron and not aluminum and it was installed 2 years ago. I still wonder if the huge difference in
Hi Dear people, I am trying to confirm some 160 QSOs, some of them oldies, so I´m trying to contact the operators or manager but, I´m not succeeding. With some of them I had no a
Many thanks Eddie and Danilo. and.....ooops.!!!....my call sign is LU2DKT....sorry to all for the missing data. Eddy.- All good topband ops know fine whiskey is a daylight beverage. _________________