Greetings fellow Top Band enthusiasts! I'm Mark K3MSB, and I live south of York PA. This is my first time posting to this list. Ive been licensed for 43 years and got on 160M in November 2014, so thi
Good Evening Everyone Thank you for all the responses, some public, some private. Since some content overlapped, Ill post my answers to the group. I replaced the 2K pot with a 1.2K resistor. No chang
By the way, there is a thread on 160M Noise Levels that is active. Is the noise that I'm seeing common to what others are seeing? If it is, that means it's not local to me (which doesn't mitigate the
Bjorn, Tim: Thanks for your comments. I don't have much time to play with the antennas until the weekend, but I did manage to hook up an SWR Analyzer. The analyzer says 1.5:1 at 1820 Kc (35 ohms R).
Well, I think doing QRP is nuts on 160M, but I tired it during the RAC Winter Contest and made 26 QSOs in about 1.5 hours, and I have to admit it was kinda fun, and I was just pokin' along..... So, m
Good Evening I completely repositioned the EWE today, it's about 70 feet from it's original position and is not pointing at the INV-L. It's pointing towards southern EU. I Verified the feedline was O
Hello Tim I am a "Johnny Novice" on Top Band; my best was 25 EU DX contacts the night before last night. That was the first time I was able to call CQ and have EU stations answer me! Last night I wor
Good Morning! Last night was the second night in a row with nice conditions between the east coast and Europe on 160M. I took the time to get a cup of coffee and spend a few hours comparing the Inver
I emailed the East Coast pilot station this morning inquiring about the 80M situation, and said I had heard that they may be having 80M TX problems. Don was kind enough to respond, and said "It seems
Well, for some of us that don't have RX antennas (yet) he was definitely not super easy to copy, but there was at least a 30-45 minute interval when he was very workable using my Inv-L on TB and I wa
I live about 50 miles northeast of Frank's QTH. My family was away for a few days and I was coming home just after lunch to take care of the critters, and I saw those thunder cells SW of me as I drov
Hello All -- Do any of you have any experience with this antenna ? 73 Mark K3MSB _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
Hi Bob Thank you for your post. In addition to the link you provided, the only other info I have for this antenna is from http://lists.contesting.com/_topband/1996-10/msg00146.html and http://www.kcd
I've been doing some reading on elevated radials for Inverted-L antennas. The existing literature seems to fall into two types; ground radials where the feed point is very close the ground, and syste
Based upon N9LBs comments, I just emailed Bruce and told him to hold my order for a KB-1. I have just enough room for 200 ft for a BOG. Extending it to 250, 290 feet etc is NOT an option for me. From
Gents Thanks for your very quick replies, a lot via private emails you guys are great and this 160M JN really appreciates it. I didnt realize the Lloyds BOG was a few inches above the ground, which m
There's a lot of truth in what Jorge says. At 2 AM EDT (The timestamp of Don's post) I'm in the sack unless 160 has been open the evening before into EU, in which case I'll play radio until the SR li
I put in my BOG the Saturday before the contest. Its the basic 200 feet installation with a pair of 8 foot ground rods at each end. One of those rods was almost impossible to hammer in, but thats why