- 1. Re: Topband: re:FIRST EVER TOOPBAND MOBILE DXCC (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 01:43:32 -0400
- Tom, Don't have his call but he was more portable than mobile ....used a 30-foot vertical as I recall, and couldn't operate while in motion for obvious reasons! 73/Jon AA1K __________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-10/msg00088.html (8,411 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Tower Question (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:24:27 -0400
- I use similar coils on my series-fed 160-meter Rohn 25 tower. But mine are wound on 6-inch PVC forms, close wound, with about 75 feet of 3/8 inch hardline in the chokes for the 2-meter and 220-mHz pa
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-10/msg00133.html (8,008 bytes)
- 3. Topband: VK9XG, 80 and 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:14:45 -0500
- VK9XG was just barely breaking the noise floor on 3506.5 this morning, from 1055z to about 1115z, copyable only on the phased pair of 935-foot Beverages at 330-degrees, so slighlty skewed off the dir
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-11/msg00032.html (7,004 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Ground Radials (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:28:05 -0500
- Hi Fred, A long time ago at a QTH not too far away, I had a 100-ft shunt-fed tower for 160 in the middle of a large yard. I buried 200 radials that were 70 feet long on the north and south sides, 136
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-11/msg00071.html (11,472 bytes)
- 5. Topband: 5X (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:40:40 -0500
- I was quite surprised tonight when I came out of the office, just after 0500z, and flipped on the mobile rig to find a 5X1 calling CQ on 1828, quite copyable even though I was in a light industrial a
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-11/msg00200.html (6,777 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Listening (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:42:52 -0500
- Ivo raises a good point. I found many stations would come back with one call and them seem to disappear. With more than a dozen Beverages to select, if a station is weak it may take a few tries to f
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00068.html (6,592 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: Mobile on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:59:27 -0500
- Hi Bill, I've been QRV 160 mobile for about the last 20 months. I use a KJ7U screwdriver antenna (details at www.kj7u.com). It's one of the few (maybe the only one) that tunes 160-6 meters continuous
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00105.html (10,487 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: DX window (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:39:15 -0500
- There's nothing in the CQ contest rules about not CQing in the "window." They just say it should be used for intercontinental QSOs only: http://cq-amateur-radio.com/160%20Contest%20Rules%202004%20111
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00319.html (18,455 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: Beverages over Radials (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:18:26 -0500
- Hi Clive, I have an 880-foot single-wire Beverage running at 162/342 degrees, switchable in each direction, that runs over the TX antenna radial field for about 200 feet. It's about 100 feet from the
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00064.html (8,764 bytes)
- 10. Topband: S21YY QRV (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 07:25:14 -0500
- fyi..... almost every day for another few weeks. And here's a look at his QTH: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/s21yy/ 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list T
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00113.html (6,616 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Pennant Transformer (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:57:11 -0500
- Or wind your own for the cost of a toroid and some wire, under $2.00. 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00156.html (8,083 bytes)
- 12. Topband: Great opening to JA today (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:51:32 -0500
- Started hearing JAs about 1145z this morninng, and had a mini-run starting at 1155z on 1821 with JH8SRI, JA2FJC, JA3CJO, JA5DQH, JF7DOA, JA0MVW and JA3ONB in the log. Signals were 559-579.. VK3ZL als
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00168.html (6,728 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: Notes on early JA to East Coast QSO's (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:24:15 -0500
- Hi John, Interesting roundup! When I was in Shelton, Connecticut, we heard JA3ONB and JA2GQO day after day after day starting in late December of 1980 and through January and February1981, as early a
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00187.html (8,677 bytes)
- 14. Topband: correct 160m contest log address (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:43:39 -0500
- The new address for sending 160m contest logs doesn't work unless you take out the hyphen: 160cw@kkn.net 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@conte
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00239.html (6,323 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Nice OC/JA Opening to Midwest (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:08:00 -0500
- Other than AE9B Tom and W8JI Tom calling CQ and running JA's, the band has been stone dead here the past couple of mornings from 11z till after our sunrise at 1208z. However, today I stayed up hoping
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00007.html (8,043 bytes)
- 16. Topband: condx today at sunrise (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:09:05 -0500
- Kept the watch from 1100z today as usual. The band was very quiet. KL7J was weak but copyable for about an hour. He peaked 569 about 1140z. Always on the direct path. from the NNW. The aurora was les
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00132.html (7,399 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: beverage running over a cyclone fence?? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:24:59 -0500
- Troy, At a previous QTH in Delaware I ran a 660-ft Beverage at about 10 feet high, over cyclone fence that was 4ft high for most of the length of the Beverage. This was switchable as a single-wire Be
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00177.html (8,057 bytes)
- 18. Topband: Delaware DX news (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:18:01 -0500
- ZK3SB had a good signal around 1030z today on 1824.4 kHz, listening up 500 hz. He seemed to alternate between 160 and 40 meters over the next hour or so. He was hearing quite well. About 1150z, just
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00251.html (6,807 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: XMT and RCV antenna questions (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:05:44 -0500
- Hi Dave, That loop should be a killer. I remember K2BU in New Jersey had one a few years ago at a height similar to yours and fed the same way and it equaled or beat my 100-ft shunt fed tower with 20
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00323.html (10,028 bytes)
- 20. Topband: Delaware in phone contest (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 01:57:45 -0500
- A number of DX stations were wondering where was Delaware in the CQ 160m phone contest. I have advised them that, as always in phone contests, I was active above 1843 kHz in accordance with the ARRL
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00046.html (7,037 bytes)
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