- 81. Re: Topband: Any way to check isolation transformer for FCP (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 23:04:09 -0500
- Hi Andy, I'll be responding to you off reflector tomorrow. 73, Guy K2AV -- Sent via Gmail Mobile on my iPhone _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00454.html (8,350 bytes)
- 82. Re: Topband: direct buried beverage coaxial (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:55:00 -0500
- I seem to remember that someone mentioned the availability of an all copper buriable RG6 type. I have an application that I want to do just once and not have it start deteriorating right away. Cost d
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00690.html (8,966 bytes)
- 83. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 14:19:04 -0500
- Hi Gary, As preface, you are in my CQ160CW log. And lest someone have the idea that the following is some kind of whining about QRP... Particularly in a contest, I ENJOY trying to pull QRP stations o
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00713.html (10,630 bytes)
- 84. Re: Topband: CW160 (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:25:38 -0500
- I felt like the SE US was under a propagation blanket. A look at RBN, NA spotted by EU nodes made us notable by our absence, K3ZM the notable exception of course. EU would pop in for a few minutes an
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-01/msg00715.html (8,881 bytes)
- 85. Topband: Shipping Radio Items to Cuba (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 01:00:42 -0500
- Is there anyone who knows how to ship radio components to Cuba from the US without going afoul of the law? Please reply off list. 73, Guy K2AV _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://ww
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-02/msg00013.html (6,430 bytes)
- 86. Re: Topband: Handheld Impedance Analyzer (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 03:29:02 -0400
- Grant has a good list of possibilities in his post. Some newer ones I haven't tried yet. SWR is an extremely limited measurement to analyze antennas. I have had many correspondences with hams led off
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00239.html (14,748 bytes)
- 87. Re: Topband: Handheld Impedance Analyzer (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:49:10 -0400
- THIS is the way that you do it. The newer graphing boxes (most of them since AIM4170) will allow you to pre-calibrate a transmission line, and then see all results as if you were really up there. Get
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-03/msg00250.html (11,186 bytes)
- 88. Topband: BOGs vs. Beverage behavior. (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:04:20 -0400
- We really gotta quit analyzing BOGs as if they were actually a Beverage. (This is a late response to a thread some months ago.) A BOG, laying on the ground, regardless of the "B" word represented in
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-04/msg00096.html (14,882 bytes)
- 89. Topband: Folded CounterPoise ??? (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:33:44 -0400
- A grossly late insertion to this discussion...apologies. Medical situations have not been conducive to quick replies. The FCP is always fed in the center. FCP dimensions should *not* be changed for t
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-04/msg00097.html (12,600 bytes)
- 90. Re: Topband: 2 wire BOG antenna update (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:48:14 -0400
- The pattern is essentially under the influence of several items: 1) the electrical length [physical length times velocity factor (VF)], 2) interference between the speed of incoming RF in the air an
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00018.html (10,457 bytes)
- 91. Re: Topband: re 2 wire BOG antenna update (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 02:29:45 -0400
- As long as one understands the cranky way the thing behaves, one is free to pick one's poison and live with it :>) I would find that the self mulching mowers will gradually bury the wire. If the cutt
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00022.html (7,665 bytes)
- 92. Re: Topband: BOG data (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 03:24:28 -0400
- It is tricky nasty to model a BOG, but can be done. One of the exceptional problems is to get a ground characteristic for EZNEC that causes the model to mimic reality. Sometimes people just can't com
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00023.html (13,374 bytes)
- 93. Re: Topband: ma160v (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 14:20:21 -0400
- Sorry for getting in on this late. Various forms of wife-inspired busy-ness. The real kicker here isn't the pattern, it's LOSS. It is helpful when mentally eyeballing an installation like this to see
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00058.html (13,479 bytes)
- 94. Re: Topband: OT: Studying the ionosphere using RBN (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 20:24:03 -0400
- This sounds really interesting. Should be able to ramp up a mob of activity for that. 160 up through VHF. Be very interesting to see if edge of eclipse is a propagation enhancer. Too bad eclipse isn'
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-05/msg00064.html (8,111 bytes)
- 95. Topband: modeling BOGs (or whatever we call them) (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 16:56:46 -0400
- Running way, way, way behind in responses to postings. Getting hopefully well-thought-out responses the same day or even the same week or month is apparently not always going to happen. Short Version
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00012.html (17,313 bytes)
- 96. Re: Topband: Maunder References (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:59:21 -0400
- I would note that some of that material got scalding negatives in commentary, bemoaning nonexistent references to data, etc, one commentor calling an article a "puff" piece. Stuff from CERN is one th
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00036.html (10,087 bytes)
- 97. Re: Topband: best headphones for cw (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 21:50:50 -0400
- I have experience with various Alphas including my current 8410. Their relays *are* loud. Noise cancelling headsets can take that way down. As to going to diodes to get rid of relay clang, that is an
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00089.html (13,436 bytes)
- 98. Re: Topband: W3LPL station (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 17:33:22 -0400
- Oh yeah, way worse. Look at his property from Google Earth and see how the tornado threaded a needle to only take down the one tower and that line of trees. Didn't hit his house. Only took down one t
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00112.html (8,427 bytes)
- 99. Re: Topband: Best way to jury rig a quick 160m contest antenna? (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 21:53:26 -0400
- Oh, I don't know. Actually the ghastly set of restrictions he's put upon himself pretty well gloms his chances. One of the advisories on the FCP is to keep it away from dielectric materials and metal
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00116.html (9,515 bytes)
- 100. Re: Topband: Working Europe (score: 1)
- Author: Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 15:13:00 -0400
- There is the issue of when people are actually listening on 160. *Sounds* dead because no one is there. Then there is the issue of when the band is actually open. Summer QRN in the northern hemispher
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-06/msg00123.html (8,829 bytes)
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