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41. Topband: BAND CONDX LAST NIGHT (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:39:38 -0500
My Beverages all seem to have slightly different "noise output", with my 82 degree antenna somewhat quieter than the others. Last night the noise on the 52 degree antenna, which is always a bit highe
/archives//html/Topband/2007-12/msg00126.html (6,943 bytes)

42. Topband: RX LOOP VARIATION (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:46:13 -0500
You all know Ivan, VE3DO....he is the fellow who posts all those rare DX spots which most of us often cannot hear on our Beverages or other receive-only antennas. Well, the secret is out....Ivan has
/archives//html/Topband/2007-12/msg00178.html (8,249 bytes)

43. Topband: DO LOOP (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:36:12 -0500
For those who asked for further details on VE3DO's loop RX antenna I have placed further information on my web page www.isp.ca/ve3nh and follow the Topband link. 73, Bill VE3CSK _____________________
/archives//html/Topband/2007-12/msg00206.html (6,210 bytes)

44. Topband: 160/80 Inverted L (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:35:59 -0500
The late W1FB had a very good article on a dual-band inverted L in QST; it employed a relay to switch two matching circuits at the base. This was my first 160M antenna and I worked about 40 DX before
/archives//html/Topband/2008-02/msg00033.html (6,507 bytes)

45. Topband: T-TYPE TOP-LOADED VERTICAL (score: 1)
Author: "Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:57:20 -0400
I have been following the posts for the "T" antenna and hope that the lengths given for the tophat wires don't discourage some from building this very excellent antenna. By adding a third wire and ma
/archives//html/Topband/2008-10/msg00085.html (9,078 bytes)

46. Topband: CLIPPERTON L (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:10:47 -0500
For those who may have a Dentron Clipperton L linear and contemplate making it a better performer on 160M, I recently added to and updated my web page on this fine little unit. Some of the material g
/archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00221.html (6,739 bytes)

47. Topband: TOPBAND CONDITIONS TO NA (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:16:08 -0500
While many experienced the frustration of hearing EU stations calling endlessly while answering very few calls, imagine my utter surprise when, at 2200Z yesterday in full sunlight I heard CN3A with a
/archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00267.html (6,641 bytes)

48. Topband: BEVERAGE READINGS (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:26:05 -0400
I had occasion to check two of my Beverages after an ice jam took out a run of hardline where it crosses a creek (ice piled up 6 ft high...guess I need to raise the level of the hardline!!). I used m
/archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00042.html (7,616 bytes)

49. Topband: JD1BMM (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:23:37 -0400
Interesting that he peaked on my 92 degree Beverage this AM just before 1100Z...signal was as high as 569 at times. So, skewed propagation or a pirate? Bill VE3CSK ___________________________________
/archives//html/Topband/2009-03/msg00063.html (6,260 bytes)

50. Topband: COPPER BRAIDED ROPE (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:42:10 -0400
Has anyone had experience with this stuff? I just had a failure on one of the pigtails connecting a top loading wire to the mast on my 160M vertical....most disconcerting, as it requires a 75 ft clim
/archives//html/Topband/2009-04/msg00059.html (7,068 bytes)

51. Topband: VERTICAL ANTENNA MATCHING (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:10:33 -0400
There have been quite a number of posts recently requesting info on how to match an inverted "L" or a short vertical. Most of the responses suggest one method or another, but I have seen very few sug
/archives//html/Topband/2009-10/msg00097.html (7,114 bytes)

52. Topband: AAARRRAAGH###$$@@!! (score: 1)
Author: "Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:02:27 -0500
Y'know-maybe....just maybe...these tuner-uppers chose 1830.5 in error this AM! Not knowing much about DXing on topband, couldn't hear the DX anyhow, heard a pileup around 1826 so "got ready just in c
/archives//html/Topband/2009-11/msg00078.html (6,916 bytes)

53. Topband: DOUBLE DIAMOND (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:34:45 -0400
Has anyone who built one of these experienced any loss in performance due to proximity of metallic objects such as hydro lines, wire fences or such? Those I have seen described have been built totall
/archives//html/Topband/2010-04/msg00052.html (6,295 bytes)

54. Topband: HARDLINE CONNECTORS (score: 1)
Author: "Mr Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:51:57 -0400
I have acquired some connectors for 1/2" Commspec JCKASS hardline which I wish to use to feed my new vertical array. These particular connectors are for terminating in a junction box, and the centre
/archives//html/Topband/2010-05/msg00049.html (7,276 bytes)

55. Topband: MFJ259B QUERY (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 23:17:38 -0400
I'm cutting a couple of 1/4 wave sections on topband and, in tuning for X=0, I notice that this value exists over about 30+ khz. If I "fine tune" for R=1 and X=0 there is still a healthy bandwidth of
/archives//html/Topband/2010-05/msg00065.html (6,465 bytes)

56. Topband: VERTICAL SPACING (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 07:05:32 -0400
A friend up north is attempting to install a pair of phased 60 ft verticals, top-loaded for 160M using wires dropped from fairly tall trees. He can't get the needed 134 ft spacing...the trees went on
/archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00018.html (6,668 bytes)

57. Topband: BEVERAGES OVER GOOD GROUND (score: 1)
Author: "Mr Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:14:20 -0400
The soil at my home QTH is classified as "very good" which makes my Beverages during spring, summer and fall work at a level far below what I consider optimum. However, as soon as the great freeze oc
/archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00067.html (7,172 bytes)

58. Topband: PORTABLE RX ANTENNAS (score: 1)
Author: "Mr Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:57:43 -0400
Regarding W5ZN's post about making an RX antenna "portable" using a mast supported in a bucket of cement: I tried that trick a few years ago when I used to string Beverages out across my neighbour's
/archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00115.html (6,966 bytes)

59. Topband: NOISE PROBLEM (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:03:31 -0500
This AM I was fortunate to work KH2/N2NL but it was touch and go as I am being plagued by an intermittent noise which typically takes a 559 signal right into the noise.....this AM as the DX was givin
/archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00074.html (6,797 bytes)

60. Topband: MY INTERFERENCE PROBLEM (score: 1)
Author: "Mr. and Mrs. Magoo" <magoo@isp.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:58:00 -0500
Thanks to all who responded to my request for help on the intermittent noise problem. Many suggested a bad streetlight, and that appears to be the cause. I went out at dusk the other evening and loca
/archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00081.html (7,239 bytes)

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