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181. Re: Topband: Top Band Antenna (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 07:36:32 -0400
My most recent method of connecting radials at the base of a vertical is to drive in a short copper pipe ground rod and use an all-stainless hose clamp to attach the wires to it. But in some portable
/archives//html/Topband/2015-08/msg00039.html (8,394 bytes)

182. Topband: Delaware DX report (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 08:18:48 -0400
The weeks approaching the equinox have brought steady VK/ZL/KH6 openings before sunrise. This morning we had a pleasant surprise with JH1HDT calling in at 10:30z for our first JA of the season. A bit
/archives//html/Topband/2015-09/msg00104.html (7,541 bytes)

183. Re: Topband: Beverage length (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:23:21 -0400
I have three separate European Beverages, each a phased pair, at 535 feet long, 750 feet and 950 feet. Each one may be the "best" Beverage at a particular time but if I could only have one it would b
/archives//html/Topband/2015-10/msg00016.html (7,250 bytes)

184. Re: Topband: beverage layout (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 11:01:40 -0500
An alternative to Bill's "stacked" wires is to use a single wire, with feedlines to both ends, and a SPDT relay at each end to either connect the Beverage wire to the feedline transformer or to groun
/archives//html/Topband/2015-11/msg00042.html (11,043 bytes)

185. Re: Topband: beverage layout (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 16:24:03 -0500
Hi Mike, I did typically run one of the feedlines on the ground beneath some or all of the Beverage length. Didn't use any chokes, seemed to work fine in both directions with good f/b. 73/Jon AA1K Fr
/archives//html/Topband/2015-11/msg00046.html (9,661 bytes)

186. Topband: New Year and band opens (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 11:02:11 -0500
The New Year has quickly brought us some nice openings to Asia, with numerous JA stations worked the past few days in the hour before our 1221z sunrise. Nice too that some of these were first-time co
/archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00077.html (7,229 bytes)

187. Re: Topband: FT4JA easy copy tonite (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:10:59 -0400
They also peaked from the northeast here (so much for the two new 92-degree Beverages I put up this week!). Here's one of the recordings I made of last night's great opening (but not great enough for
/archives//html/Topband/2016-04/msg00023.html (8,213 bytes)

188. Re: Topband: Inverted L off tower? (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 08:26:39 -0400
Jim, Why not just shunt feed the tower? 70 feet with that beam for top-loading is a good height for 160. If it will be a guyed tower these would need to be insulated, and run all cabling from the bot
/archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00042.html (8,782 bytes)

189. Topband: Sad news N5IA SK (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:26:24 -0400
N5IA's son posted this on Milt's QRZ.com page: "Hello to all of Milt's Amatuer contact, friends, acquaintances and others, "I am Milt's oldest son Jason, some of you know me, most of you probably don
/archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00057.html (7,652 bytes)

190. Topband: Delaware report (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 00:39:38 -0400
Friday morning at 1041z, about 10 minutes before sunrise, JA9FHB called in for our first JA QSO of the season. Another JA9 called right after but unfortunately we did not complete that QSO. Nice to h
/archives//html/Topband/2016-09/msg00099.html (6,513 bytes)

191. Re: Topband: 160M Four Square array phasing lines (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:44:33 -0400
Al, I have two 160m transmit arrays, one a modified K3LR style parasitic and another a BS/EF array. The K3LR was installed in 1998 and I buried the feedline through conduit (about 100 feet of corruga
/archives//html/Topband/2016-10/msg00155.html (11,047 bytes)

192. Re: Topband: Strange resistance between Beverage ground rods (score: 1)
Author: Jon Zaimes <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:24:56 -0500
As I recall mine are typically in the hundreds of ohms or low thousands, never as high as 20k, even on a 950 ft wire. I do see large variations of these across my 12 acres, even significantly differe
/archives//html/Topband/2016-11/msg00090.html (9,869 bytes)

193. Re: Topband: 1809.2 kHz constant dashes (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 06:59:26 -0500
Hearing it at 1157z. Peaks on 280-degree Beverage from central Delaware. S5 on my K3 meter. 73/Jon AA1K Update. Still hearing it at 1026 UTC. Heading approximately 90 to 100 degrees from Fishers Indi
/archives//html/Topband/2016-12/msg00093.html (9,291 bytes)

194. Re: Topband: Beverage in a slope (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 07:01:45 -0400
Gabriel, At a previous QTH I had a 600-foot Beverage on a hill, dropping from 90 feet to about 10 feet elevation and it worked great. Was switchable NW/SE. Heard and worked many JA stations on it. 73
/archives//html/Topband/2017-04/msg00020.html (8,757 bytes)

195. Topband: CQ W1 topbanders (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 07:45:13 -0400
Hiro, JJ5GMJ, who gave many of us a new one on 160 when he was /DU1, is now in Massachusetts till next year and looking to connect with Topbanders there. His email is jj5gmj@gmail.com. More info in h
/archives//html/Topband/2017-08/msg00000.html (6,919 bytes)

196. Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long) (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Zaimes" <jz73@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 21:29:07 -0400
Jack has always been one of my heroes on Topband. I usually gave Jack birthday greetings each Dec. 24, after he mentioned he was 79 on that date in 2011. My log shows I missed him in 2015 but gave hi
/archives//html/Topband/2018-10/msg00136.html (26,120 bytes)

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