- 61. Topband: good conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:51:06 -0400
- Band was in great shape last night, with 5 continents worked in 25 minutes just after 0300z despite some heavy QRN: 5Z4DZ, 4X4WN, VE1ZJ, I4LCK and ZP6CW. Tried to find a KH6 for a WAC sweep but no lu
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-09/msg00030.html (6,587 bytes)
- 62. Topband: QRM in Asia (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:12:26 -0400
- Does this new broadband QRM cover the entire band 1800-2000 kHz? Or are there frequencies high in the band we could try transmitting on and listening down the band split frequency for JA and other As
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00097.html (6,683 bytes)
- 63. Topband: dead band? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 10:25:07 -0500
- Driving home from work late last night, only a couple of weak European signals were heard. By the time I got in the shack just before 07z, the band seemed dead -- not a signal found across the lower
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00058.html (6,633 bytes)
- 64. Topband: daylight DX (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:47:10 -0500
- Tuesday at 1930z -- two and a half hours before my sundown -- I was copying EA3JE CQing on 1830 kHz, peaking 569. The signal stayed in for 15-20 minutes with solid copy. I tuned across the band but d
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00063.html (6,930 bytes)
- 65. Re: Topband: Intresting condx thim morning (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:29:50 -0500
- Hi Gary, The spotlight was really doing its thing -- Kaz was the only JA I heard, and I worked him 15 minutes after sunrise! I could still hear him 25 minutes past SR, but by then VK6HD was down and
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00203.html (7,270 bytes)
- 66. Topband: T88AB still QRV? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:55:04 -0500
- Anyone know if T88AB will be QRV on the band tomorrow (Nov. 30) 07z-1230z? 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contest
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00350.html (6,146 bytes)
- 67. Re: Topband: The death of 160m DX contests? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:10:01 -0500
- Only S&P'ing greatly reduces the number of stations who can work you. Single ops and Multi-singles can't afford to sit on 160 and CQ very long, if at all. But they will listen briefly at peak periods
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00136.html (9,314 bytes)
- 68. Topband: A JA morning (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:51:34 -0500
- Nice opening to JA today with four in the log. The path initially was from the West/Southwest with JA8ISU coming through just after 1130z. About 1200z signals shifted to the NW, with JA1HQT, JH0BBE a
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00333.html (6,966 bytes)
- 69. Re: Topband: Electric fences (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:48:20 -0500
- Hi Charles, I have had electric fence noise from 8-10 miles away. It usually comes in two forms. One is a steady or intermittent tick, tick, tick .... the sound of the make/brake switch in the fence
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00348.html (8,657 bytes)
- 70. Re: Topband: Beverage above chain link fence (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:02:23 -0500
- Hi Ken, I've had numerous Beverages running over chain link fences and field wire fences. They all worked great and performed like other Beverages. I generally used 10-foot supports so the wire was 4
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00398.html (7,583 bytes)
- 71. Topband: Delaware report (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:55:57 -0500
- High winds -- gusting over 50 mph -- woke me up early today, so I decided to check the band for a few minutes. Still lots of QRN, but after a few CQs I heard a weak JA6 calling me a bit before 1000z.
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00229.html (7,756 bytes)
- 72. Re: Topband: Beverage question... (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:44:27 -0500
- I have found it doesn't matter whether the matching xfmr is at ground level or at the height of the antenna (most of mine are up 10-11 feet). I don't slope any ends either. For convenience of checkin
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00252.html (7,239 bytes)
- 73. Topband: BOG in phase? (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:49:17 -0500
- Has anyone successfully tried Beverages on the ground in phase -- either stagger-phased (echelon) or broadside? 73/Jon AA1K www.aa1k.us _______________________________________________ Topband mailing
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00286.html (6,475 bytes)
- 74. Re: Topband: CQ 160M Contest and a question about shunt feeding (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:57:03 -0500
- Hi Stan, About 25 percent of the time my 3-el (or 4-el toward Eu) parastic TX vertical array is better than the Beverages on RX. Maybe another 25 percent of the time it is about the same as the Bever
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00293.html (8,845 bytes)
- 75. Topband: Delaware report (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:46:11 -0500
- It was a great JA morning, with the first QSO in the log at 1119z and a total of 22 JA by 1218z, just after our sunrise. Many signals were S9, and band conditions were very quiet. The broadside phase
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00357.html (7,213 bytes)
- 76. Re: Topband: CQ 160 WW experience (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 03:31:19 -0500
- On Saturday night I took some time out from CQing to slowly tune the whole band in search-and-pounce mode, bottom to top, a number of times. I was using my FT1000MP, with the Inrad roofing filter, an
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00007.html (8,245 bytes)
- 77. Re: Topband: Should Be A Great Night! (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:36:34 -0500
- The December morning I worked XU7ACB -- three years ago? -- he was the only DX on the band. The same the morning I worked JT1CO two years ago. And this past Dec. 23 when I heard HL3IUA answer W4DR's
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00047.html (7,296 bytes)
- 78. Re: Topband: CQ 160 WW experience (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:02:51 -0500
- Good one Tree! I see this many nights from the mobile.....The nights the band is "short" and I can work loud Europeans from the car, I hear few if any of the left coast making it across. But the nig
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00055.html (8,054 bytes)
- 79. Re: Topband: Morning TopBand Condx (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:17:42 -0500
- Hi Jarda, Congratulations on the FO! It is faily common from this QTH to hear and work DX after sunrise. This morning HL3IUA (a new one) called me just after my sunrise while I was finishing a QSO wi
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00072.html (7,072 bytes)
- 80. Re: Topband: W1AW (score: 1)
- Author: Jon Zaimes AA1K <jz73@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:44:33 -0500
- Even moving to 1800.5 would be an improvement and get them out of the active DX portion of the band. 73/Jon AA1K _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contestin
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00112.html (7,318 bytes)
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