- 1. Topband: HiQ antenna question (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:14:27 -0500
- Hello to the list, I just joined and have a few questions for the list. I live in an apartment complex. I will be placing a Hi-Q 5/160 antenna on the roof in the near future. The roof at 20 feet and
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-06/msg00072.html (8,174 bytes)
- 2. Topband: 5/160 installation results report (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:20 -0500
- I have been meaning to make a report on my results with the Hi-Q 5/160 install, but the 4 weeks it took me to get someone to put it up, lousy band conditions, plus the other miscellaneous life events
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-07/msg00079.html (11,891 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: 5/160 installation results report (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:33:17 -0500
- wow, lots of effort on your part to correct those problems. Thankfully I am not having any rfi type issues with my current setup, that may or may not change with the addition of my new 300w amplifier
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-07/msg00084.html (8,548 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Alaska (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:04:19 -0500
- 559 him / 539 me @ 11:45z this morning with 35w on 1.824.5 and a 10 foot tall Hi-Q 5/160 screwdriver antenna @ 20 feet on roof. Blew me away, 1st KL7 from the apartment, I had thought my 160m days we
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-08/msg00083.html (7,113 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: 160 CW (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:29:48 -0500
- I had once considered trying to build up a "puffer" type of key, since I had played a trumpet I knew just how fast you could tongue/key a rig. What I was fantasizing about was using something like th
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00022.html (7,866 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: 160m (& 6m) MOBILE antennas? (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:31:28 -0600
- Not mobile, but maybe some of this info will be useful. The following was the most efficient screwdriver styled antenna I could figure out for my apartment dweller situation. I use a Hi-Q 5/160 (scre
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00082.html (9,036 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: 160m (& 6m) MOBILE antennas? (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:52:49 -0600
- here's a couple of pictures of the antenna: http://jass-ltd.org/images/SW-view.jpg http://jass-ltd.org/images/Hi-Q_NE-view.jpg -- GB & 73 KA5OAI Sam Morgan http://linuxbasics.org Linux, the lifetime
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00083.html (7,538 bytes)
- 8. Topband: WTX section activity in ARRL 160m test (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:22:34 -0600
- Was I the only WTX station active in the ARRL 160m contest? Surely not, but I I never hear any others? Heres a little summery of play time from San Angelo, Tx. Modest WTX QRP effort. I finally got to
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00068.html (8,918 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: WTX section activity in ARRL 160m test (score: 1)
- Author: Sam M <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:31:50 -0600
- I used the miles per watt calculator here: http://copaseticflow.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-qsl-mapper.html and it seems my best contact of the contest was W4MYA 1345.56 miles away from San Angelo, TX i
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00106.html (8,068 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Morning Stew Perry from DM91 (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:15:16 -0600
- Well this morning was strictly swling from DM91 San Angelo, TX. Noise from the upper Midwest storms made listening a real pain. My mighty miniature 13 foot tall Hi-Q vertical @ 20 feet up on the 2nd
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00243.html (7,359 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Stew Perry Rules? (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:00:07 -0600
- == == Guess I misinterpreted the rules also then. I was under the impression that: "Remote or Cluster spotting shall not be used." refered to using the cluster to gain advantage by enabling one to ju
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00252.html (8,820 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Morning Stew Perry from DM91 (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:46:55 -0600
- Fortunately the return of darkness was much kinder to me @ DM91. Finished with 59 contacts and 176 points. I think that gets multiplied by 1.5 cause I ran my big gun TS-450S 100w station, it's classi
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-12/msg00261.html (9,308 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: 160 to NA (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:29:26 -0600
- I understand your feelings Rag, however, I was also search and pouncing up and down the band this morning, and even though I had to sometimes give my call a number of times before I was heard, I was
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00243.html (8,152 bytes)
- 14. Topband: Gud morning on 160m (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:39:27 -0600
- Wow, my first QRP DX on 160m /me does happy dance <-- not a pretty picture PJ2/K8ND from TX to Netherlands Antilles with 5w into 13' tall Hi-Q 5/160 @ 20' 5w x 1.3% efficiency ERP=65mw /me slithers b
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00291.html (6,932 bytes)
- 15. Topband: 1.900 cw beacon ? (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:29:12 -0500
- Anyone have info on a cw beacon on about 1.900mhz ? -- GB & 73 KA5OAI Sam Morgan _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.co
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00023.html (6,269 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: Receive Splitter or Not? (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:43:18 -0500
- here's hoping you meant: I've *used* ..... not sued, heheheeh. -- GB & 73 KA5OAI Sam Morgan _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.co
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00072.html (7,684 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: 1/2 wave tower.... (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:54:15 -0500
- lets get wild here... 2 ele delta loop point at top and horizontally fed in middle of bottom of side (base) of triangle with radiation direction electronically reversible (maybe around 132 feet from
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-04/msg00009.html (8,107 bytes)
- 18. Topband: help identify noise (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:15:10 -0500
- I know it's only partially 160m related, but I figured you folks have dealt with all kind of noises and perhaps one of you would have heard this one before. I hear it on 1.923mhz or so but only that
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-04/msg00025.html (6,843 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: help identify noise (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:28:08 -0500
- sigh, that's what I get for hurrying to get the post out... for got the links, go here and you can see and hear the noise: http://pages.suddenlink.net/ka5oai-1/#40m-noise -- GB & 73 KA5OAI Sam Morgan
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-04/msg00026.html (7,929 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: Beacon at band edges (score: 1)
- Author: Sam Morgan <ka5oai@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 07:19:15 -0500
- K2 with IF fed into softrock 6.2 lite using Rocky to see signal strengths. I used a Hi-Q 5/160 @ 20 feet for my receive antenna so it takes about 10 sec to re-tune to the other band edge. I first tri
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-05/msg00015.html (7,893 bytes)
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