- 1. Re: Topband: strange conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:21:03 -0500
- I am a newcomer to 160M this season and, admittedly, am not using low noise, directional antennas on receive, but I have observed what Larry has described here. Often I have heard other stations 100-
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00329.html (7,564 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: beverage lobes (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:32:31 -0500
- When observers are making judgments on arrival angles, are they basing their judgments on which of several different types of antennas with different TOAs produces the loudest received signal? 73, Jo
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00160.html (9,192 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Best Height Above Ground for a Beverage RX Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:12:25 -0500
- As a newcomer to 160M, you've raised an issue that was troubling me. I live on a hilltop that slopes off rapidly in all directions, dropping about 400', except to the south. If I were to install Beve
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00222.html (11,027 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: 160m Jammer (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:12:37 -0500
- I forwarded one of the TopBand reports of the 160M jammer to Brett, VR2BG. When I had visited him in VR2 earlier this year, he had complained of problems on several bands with jamming from the Chines
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00336.html (10,385 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Daytime Propagation (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:54:38 -0500
- "IF there is going to be a DX Window (and that's another discussion entirely) it should be day and night since it is so easy for stations in daylight to QRM stations in darkness who are still working
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00066.html (7,843 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Titanex Verticals (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:43:55 -0500
- Does anyone know if Titanex has a US distributor? I wrote their German office asking for that information but received no reply. 73, Joe K2XX _______________________________________________ Topband m
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00033.html (6,833 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: QSL:s (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:09:01 -0500
- cards which could have led to delays in answering received QSLs. I know for certain that the X** suffixes were involved. It's possible that there may have been others. To the best of my knowledge, th
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-02/msg00141.html (8,720 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Titanex parts (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 19:01:04 -0400
- Joe, I was trying to contact them several months ago, but without success. I am told that they're not that responsive to customer inquiries or, at least, very slow to answer. This was the advice that
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00030.html (8,406 bytes)
- 9. Topband: DXE Receive 4-Square (DXE RFS-TS2P) (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:40:46 -0400
- I have a an opportunity to get a DXE Receive 4-Square (DXE RFS-TS2P) at a reasonable price. I understand in reading the manual that it uses 8.5' whips for the verticals. Has anyone on this list used
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-10/msg00282.html (7,237 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: DXE Receive 4-Square (DXE RFS-TS2P) (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:00:18 -0400
- Many thanks to Don, Dean, Dave, Bob and Ed for their input. Generally speaking, the evaluations were quite positive. However, after reading the manual, it looks like that it's important for optimum p
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-10/msg00307.html (9,940 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: AAARRRAAGH ##$!@@!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:20 -0500
- I have never experienced so many incidents of people tuning up on the DX station's frequency as I have this year on 80 and 160M. I'm beginning to believe that auto antenna tuners are a bane to all ma
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-11/msg00059.html (7,963 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Re insulated vs:bare radial wires/Chicke Wire (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:08:00 -0500
- Yes, when I had inquired on the Towertalk reflector several months ago regarding the use of chicken wire, someone responded privately and said that BC stations had abandoned wire mesh screens many ye
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-12/msg00083.html (8,558 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: Antenna Modeling (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:51:32 -0500
- Eddy, I have been an EZNEC user for about 12 years or so. Last year, 4NEC2 was recommended to me by a German ham visitor. I did spend a lot of time with it trying to learn it because I thought it had
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00033.html (9,390 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: Fish net beacon locations? (score: 1)
- Author: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:57:48 -0400
- Does anyone know how much power and what kinds of antennas these beacons are using? They are often quite strong at my QTH. Just curious. 73, Joe K2XX _______________________________________________ U
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00127.html (7,938 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Preferred Topband transceiver (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:10:30 -0500
- I have agreed with Steve on his assessment of the 9000's contour control vs the 7800's APF in several other venues and continue to do so. There is no difference between the 7800 and 9000 in MDS, but
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-12/msg00052.html (12,331 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: Boring Report - December (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:14:10 -0500
- Last year, I put up my first vertical for 160M and my very first QSO with it was JA on September 29. And though I have to admit to not being a dedicated early riser, this morning was the first time t
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-01/msg00018.html (11,373 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: Wow, great conditions (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:56:53 -0500
- The signals from Europe at this QTH last night were about the best that I've heard all season. There were some real S9 signals such as SV8JE, UT7QF and DL5AWI. ZS1JX was about as strong as I've ever
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00102.html (7,846 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: Top Band INactivity (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:18:30 -0500
- George, I couldn't agree more. At 0000Z last night the band seemed pretty quiet with only DF2UU coming through at S4-5 at best. However, at around 0400Z it was as if someone had turned a switch. Unus
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00015.html (9,468 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: MFJ-259B (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:46:16 -0400
- Bruce, I don't just what you're using for a dummy load, but I have a 50 ohm resistor carefully mounted within a PL-259 to minimize lead lengths. I get about X=2. It's likely a matter of lead inductan
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-04/msg00054.html (7,688 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: T32C and 3D2R (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:31:12 -0400
- T32C was quite easy copy here in SW VA just before SR. 3D2R came up out of the mud here just around SR. 73, Joe K2XX _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00019.html (8,438 bytes)
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