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1. Topband: How to File BPL Comments With the FCC (score: 1): Author: k3ky at erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Mon Aug 18 05:49:20 2003; This prevent Band! I got some time Friday night late and wrote my Reply Comments to the UPLC Comments. Just as I was ready to transmit them to FCC, I saw the following on the ECFS website, around 2-3; /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00085.html (10,172 bytes)
2. Topband: Apparent ground (score: 1): Author: k3ky at erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Wed Mar 5 17:12:52 2003; Hi, FordI know little about the MF ground shielding aspects of the experiment, but would suggest that to implement it properly, you would want to avoid any metallic conductors going down the hole, as; /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00012.html (8,978 bytes)
3. Topband: Ionosphere = "Ignorosphere": Still Quite A Mysterious Area To Science (score: 1): Author: k3ky at erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Fri Feb 7 16:39:19 2003; An interesting science 'news' piece sent by an internet friend http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/07/MN200326.DTL I have no idea if there is anything to this theory or not, but h; /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00045.html (8,140 bytes)
4. Topband: K6STI Loop (score: 1): Author: k3ky at erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Wed Jan 22 06:06:01 2003; On average, a Flag/Pennant/K9AY/Ewe type antenna is going to work better for you- *but*... There are occasions when my K6STI hears the best or is the only antenna that is hearing the DX. Although it; /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00183.html (7,721 bytes)
5. Topband: A Vertical (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 22:48:14 -0500; Possible good location for a 'low' horizontallypolarized radiator like a dipole, I would think. 73, David K3KY; /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00073.html (6,815 bytes)
6. Topband: LOOP ANTENNA update (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:06:41 -0500; (snip) (snip) (snip) Hi, DanIf you are trying to come up with a good 160m DX antenna, the loop will probably be only so-so. Think vertical! I highly recommend you take a look at EI7BA's antenna page:; /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00058.html (7,342 bytes)
7. Topband: Lightning Damage and Protection (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 05:08:25 -0500; Hi, RogerIt sounds to me like you might get a lot out of PolyPhaser's book on the subject- it is called something like "The Grounds for EMC (EMP?) and Lightning Protection". They make some of the bes; /archives//html/Topband/2002-10/msg00170.html (10,312 bytes)
8. Topband: Radial wire selection and installation (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 04:04:07 -0400; Here's my take on radial wires- I agree that copper is a good way to go, although some hams with some types of soils have gotten pretty good results using aluminum fence wire. Steel would be a very d; /archives//html/Topband/2002-09/msg00055.html (9,549 bytes)
9. Topband: Inverted Ground Plane (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>); Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:57:27 -0400; Hi, JayThis sounds like a variant of the 30-30, popular on 40 meters in the early part of the 20th century. They ran a wire 30 feet vertically and then another 30 feet horizontally, and fed it agains; /archives//html/Topband/2002-09/msg00181.html (9,839 bytes)
10. Topband: Silent Feedline for RX antennas (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 13:59:48 -0400; Sounds like it might be worth investigating. My initial reaction, however, is that there might be problems of an electrical/ mechanical nature. Unlike single insulated wires, which are easily twisted; /archives//html/Topband/2002-08/msg00075.html (10,024 bytes)
11. Topband: 4U1UN and VP9 activity (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:33:10 -0400; One of the former ops (probably K2GM) who got booted out of 4U1UN over politics told me that 160m operation there is quite problematic. It is an extremely noisy environment in NYC and no one has foun; /archives//html/Topband/2002-08/msg00079.html (9,250 bytes)
12. Topband: Silent Feedline for RX antennas (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>); Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:29:42 -0400; Tom casts doubt on the value of converting from unbalanced to balanced feedline in real world situations. My suggestion: while you still have those trenches open, install *conduit*. Probably some lar; /archives//html/Topband/2002-08/msg00095.html (8,262 bytes)
13. Topband: Diversity receiving (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:59:50 -0400; Er- I don't know about the "phase-locked" part, but this is essentially what is done with the FT-1000D/BPF-1/G3TKF Synchro Mod combination. Anyone who owns an older FT-1000D can do this very simple m; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00012.html (9,040 bytes)
14. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:32:29 -0400; When the Roman legions attacked an area, they killed, looted, etc. If they were especially angry with the folks they had just overrun, they sometimes salted the ground. Made it unable to support plan; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00090.html (8,927 bytes)
15. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:43:59 -0400; Since the topic has migrated from "will salting the ground improve my low band antenna" to something along the lines of "defoliating a victory garden", let me up my ante to 4 cents by pointing out th; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00109.html (8,865 bytes)
16. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:49:19 -0400; There are countless well-documented examples in history where the majority was clearly shown later to have been totally wrong. Just for one example, there was Galileo with his absurd notion that the; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00112.html (9,529 bytes)
17. Topband: Beverage Frustrations (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 12:11:27 -0400; how you solved the problem of This sounds like a situation where good use could be made of an epoxy encapsulant- just a suggestion. Condensation alone led to the open circuit? You must have used some; /archives//html/Topband/2002-06/msg00046.html (11,252 bytes)
18. Topband: Diversity Reception on 160 (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:38:47 -0400; My observations with a small lot, miminal antennas, and a FT-1000D equipped for full antenna diversity: You will be amazed which antenna combinations give a useful boost in intelligibility- and which; /archives//html/Topband/2002-06/msg00073.html (7,273 bytes)
19. Topband: Source of Vactrol device for K9AY loop (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 00:00:03 -0400; Thanks to Lionel for this great tip. This is a good price. I ordered 20 of them and did a quick bench test to determine 'tuning range'. I can't say whether these might be out of spec units, but there; /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00018.html (9,706 bytes)
20. Topband: Lightning and Beverages (score: 1): Author: k3ky@erols.com (k3ky@erols.com); Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:44:06 -0400; It so happens that I found an open terminating resistor on my 225ft 'shorty' Beverage recently. I tripped over the wire while mowing the front lawn, breaking it off where it connects to the ground ro; /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00060.html (8,959 bytes)

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