- 81. Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, less than 24 hours away! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:29:04 -0500
- That site looks interesting, but all the little colored hollow squares scattered all over the map confused me. I thought they were lightning strikes, but from what I can tell, they are simply the loc
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00113.html (8,140 bytes)
- 82. Re: Topband: Receiving loops (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 08:35:58 -0500
- Why don't you try a 150' BOG? I know a guy in Maryland who has one only 140' long, and he hears DX on it on 160 that he doesn't on his inverted-L. Probably better than a BOG is a Slinky Beverage. 73,
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00114.html (7,083 bytes)
- 83. Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, now! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 14:49:23 -0500
- All I hear is distant lightning QRN. But good things come to all who patiently wait for sunset and the ensuing darkness. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00126.html (7,973 bytes)
- 84. Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, now! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:09:23 -0500
- Well, I plan on trying to enjoy the contest a little, even though all I can do today is listen. :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QS
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00128.html (8,547 bytes)
- 85. Re: Topband: Stew Perry, Summer Edition, now! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:45:05 -0500
- My 160 inverted-L support rope broke, Bill. And there are other issues. (Long story.) When I am able to put it back up, it will absolutely have Guy's FCP instead of the two elevated radials like I ha
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00130.html (9,352 bytes)
- 86. Re: Topband: Beverage Antennas & Trees (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:24:47 -0500
- I agree with Jim. Beverages don't have to be ideal to work very well indeed, thank you. It's the matching transformers (and maybe their grounds) that are a more important thing to worry about. You ne
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00173.html (8,389 bytes)
- 87. Re: Topband: Chokes for Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:10:27 -0500
- Speaking of flooded coax... I noticed something recently about at least one of my spools of flooded quad-aluminum-shield "RG-6". Since the flooding compound is only in the outer shield (the braid rig
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00200.html (9,861 bytes)
- 88. Re: Topband: Cables for Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:17:13 -0500
- Hi Tom, I'm not saying it's a good idea, or that anyone should. :-) I'm just asking, What might happen if water got in there, wicked along the inner braid, causing corrosion? My gut feeling is that s
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00206.html (9,433 bytes)
- 89. Re: Topband: Cables for Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:47:33 -0500
- All the RG-6 CATV stuff I have is quad shield. From the outside to the inside: 1. Outer jacket 2. Flooded alum. braid 3. Alum. foil 4. "Unflooded" alum. braid (is there such a word? :-) 5. Alum. foil
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00215.html (9,991 bytes)
- 90. Re: Topband: Chokes for Beverages (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:17:29 -0500
- Does there always need to be electrical continuity between the various shields along the length of coax? I don't think so. According to https://awapps.commscope.com/catalog/broadband/product_details.
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00241.html (10,425 bytes)
- 91. Re: Topband: Ferrite core (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 08:04:26 -0500
- They don't sell direct, Rune. Here's their distributor list: http://www.fair-rite.com/newfair/support.htm The BN-73-202 binocular cores for Beverage transformers can be purchased from https://www.ami
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00001.html (8,336 bytes)
- 92. Re: Topband: Ferrite core (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 10:58:46 -0500
- Where's a better place to get those cores, Carl? Last time I bought 100 of them from Amidon, the cost was about $0.60 each when we factored in shipping. Mouser does not stock them. 73, Mike www.w0btu
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00005.html (7,784 bytes)
- 93. Re: Topband: small rx loops and ferrite (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:24:44 -0500
- Speaking of ferrite RX loops... I picked up the July 2012 issue of Popular Communications from the local grocery store's magazine rack, just to see what the unusual antenna on the front cover was all
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00046.html (7,872 bytes)
- 94. Re: Topband: UFOs (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:35:32 -0500
- Don't knock those deflection yoke cores! :-) I've used a lot of those for RFI suppression over the years, especially the last place I worked. They started calling me a "wizard" there after a simple t
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00047.html (7,740 bytes)
- 95. Re: Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise! (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:11:18 -0500
- I don't know about you, but we have data that is far too important not to make multiple backup copies ourselves. Think about whether you are willing to take a of risk losing it all because "the cloud
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00079.html (8,663 bytes)
- 96. Re: Topband: Relays for Beveridge Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:49:51 -0500
- NO relay --or any other Beverage component-- will take a direct hit. :-) There are some criteria we need to look for in a Beverage relay, but the voltage rating is not necessarily one of them. It's i
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00126.html (6,938 bytes)
- 97. Re: Topband: Cable shields (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:07:34 -0500
- Very good, Tom. I still wonder what the answer is to my earlier question (in late June) about a flooded quad-shield coax with a corroded inner shield. I suspect with a bonded foil inner shield, not m
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00131.html (7,161 bytes)
- 98. Re: Topband: Chokes, et. al. (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:21:09 -0500
- I'm in full agreement with this, unless we consider our shack computer part of our "gear". :-) I could not avoid a severe RFI problem on 75/80 meters without winding my CAT5 network cable around some
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00197.html (8,376 bytes)
- 99. Re: Topband: Chokes, et. al. (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:23:19 -0500
- Hi Tom, Ok, understood. Could very well be. Now to figure out how to track it down and solve it. (FWIW, only one keyboard has ever done this; this is one is a mini "Alaska" keyboard made by LiteOn, m
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00201.html (9,223 bytes)
- 100. Re: Topband: Beverage strain auto-disconnects (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:02:07 -0500
- That is crazy! It sounds like they're using something like MIG welding wire. I thought I'd heard everything. Another potential issue I see with wire like that is that the RF is bound to penetrate tha
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00245.html (9,497 bytes)
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