- 21. RE: Topband: New style 1.8MHz antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:42:07 -0700
- Ford: Gary is correct. Also, one needs to understand that the volume of patent applications is huge, the USPTO has only a finite number of examiners, the portion of the application that is "unique" m
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-06/msg00057.html (9,580 bytes)
- 22. RE: Topband: 450 ohms ladder line (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:51:00 -0700
- Jacques: I don't think Beverage construction is out-of-topic at all--quite the contrary! The most commonly available "ladder" line is the "450 ohm" window line. But this line has single copperweld wi
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-07/msg00024.html (9,526 bytes)
- 23. RE: Topband: Electric Fence (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 16:23:04 -0700
- There are AC types that won't have the periodic pop. I recently "electrified" a metal bird feeder because the raccoons were raiding it nightly. If there is no leakage then the line is RF quiet. With
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-08/msg00110.html (7,909 bytes)
- 24. RE: Topband: Beverage insulators for 450 ohm line (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:29:17 -0700
- Sounds like you have done your homework, Charlie! BTW I also noted a version of that insulator with a 5" neck, similar to the single-wire extended insulators I already have bags of. Garry Hi Gary, et
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-08/msg00114.html (8,695 bytes)
- 25. RE: Topband: radial layout and pattern skew (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:11:28 -0700
- I regret disagreeing with my friend Earl, but I just purchased and installed EZNEC 4, and it, like EZNEC 3, uses the NEC-2 engine. EZNEC 4+ offers more segments and a few additional features, but als
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-09/msg00038.html (9,858 bytes)
- 26. RE: Topband: TOP HAT GUY WIRES (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:40:33 -0700
- Perhaps liguid vinyl "tape" would be a superior overcoating compared to the tape creep Mike mentions. Garry, NI6T G'day, the it rubber A regular comment that, however, I've used it for years, clear a
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-09/msg00039.html (8,805 bytes)
- 27. Topband: 160m noise (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:41:53 -0800
- I modified a 100 kHz Loran loop to 1.85 MHz, mounted it on ski racks on my car and cruised the neighborhood looking for low frequency noise sources--those rolling off below 4 to 7 MHz, which are not
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00028.html (8,236 bytes)
- 28. RE: Topband: 160m noise (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:23:15 -0800
- Topbanders: I emailed the Reflector on 3 November asking for inputs re my discovery that my Linksys BEFSR41 Router/Switch was radiating copious amounts of RF on topband, apparently through the CAT 5
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00047.html (10,174 bytes)
- 29. RE: Topband: Receivers (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:32:25 -0800
- There used to be and may still be lots of cool mods to the TS930S available from Inrad. I have: * tuning rate mod--a little board. Responds to rate of turning the big knob! Turn the knob fast, and kH
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00120.html (10,693 bytes)
- 30. RE: Topband: Vertical SWR problem (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:19:36 -0800
- It's not just BC energy that wacks out the MFJ. At 3B9R five years ago, I could not get the Titanex tuned until I had asked JA3IG, one of our team, to QRX in the middle of his 15m SSB run. He was not
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00248.html (9,441 bytes)
- 31. Topband: Condx to EU last night (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:30:09 -0800
- Last evening was the best 160 session here at my San Francisco area QTH since the fondly-remembered last week of December, 1997. I logged a dozen EU between 0526 and 0635Z, including LA5HE and 9H1ZA
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00127.html (7,564 bytes)
- 32. Topband: Condx (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:22:21 -0800
- My $.02 is that I have experienced one "great" evening all season, and a few nice surprises here and there. Granted, I have not epoxied myself into the seat this season, but I have kept track of acti
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00175.html (6,629 bytes)
- 33. Re: Topband: Path FT5XO (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:09:22 -0800
- With far less sophisticated antennas and location, I nonetheless agree with Bob's observation, below. I arrived with the party already in full swing. First posting appears to have been at 1321 from W
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00255.html (8,196 bytes)
- 34. Re: Topband: 1/2 wave vertical (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 12:06:14 -0700
- Rick: Don't think of it as a parallel-tuned circuit; think of it as an impedance-matching transformer with the capacitor cancelling the inductive reactance component introduced by the transforemer an
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-06/msg00000.html (8,477 bytes)
- 35. Topband: Kure Atoll DXpedition 2005 (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:36:39 -0700
- For those DXers who have somehow missed all previous announcements, the 2005 Kure Atoll DXpedition is about to launch. The callsign will be K7C. An international team of 12 experienced DXpeditioners
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-09/msg00009.html (8,336 bytes)
- 36. Topband: Additional K7C info (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:01:11 -0700
- At the suggestion of George, W8UVZ, here are sunrise/sunset times for the span of the Kure Atoll DXpedition. SR SS 24 Sep 1746Z 0543Z 06 Oct 1752Z 0529Z Our nominal TX frequency is 1826.5 kHz, listen
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-09/msg00011.html (6,990 bytes)
- 37. Topband: About DXA... (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:12:09 -0700
- Topbanders: In my earlier announcement, I discussed the DXA web application that will enhance operator participation and enjoyment of the Kure Atoll DXpedition and pointed you to it at www.cordell.or
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-09/msg00012.html (6,831 bytes)
- 38. Topband: West Coast openings (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:55:19 -0800
- I know it is naive to ask, but, since it is supposedly the Season of Joy and since we seem to have good condx to Europe... During the rare occasions when the West Coast actually has a real opening to
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00308.html (6,810 bytes)
- 39. Topband: Topband crud (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:39:56 -0800
- OK, topbanders--here's a crud problem I could use some help with. I noted that a segment between roughly 1815 and 1822 contained a steady carrier at 1818.09 and discrete sidebands either side, spaced
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00371.html (7,436 bytes)
- 40. Re: Topband: 160 FROM GUANTANAMO BAY CUBA (score: 1)
- Author: "Garry Shapiro" <garry@ni6t.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 20:50:41 -0800
- I have certainly heard this many times but wasn't the first of Beverage's antenna laid directly on the sand at a beach?? _______________________________________________ I don't think so. This is from
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00053.html (8,485 bytes)
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