- 1. Topband: EchoLink Comments (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri Aug 1 10:40:31 2003
- Isn't there also a 160M IRC chat channel? Try http://www.on4kst.com/chat/start.php 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database was updated 17 June 03. Are you current? www.pvrc.org/wcsd/wcsds
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00003.html (7,441 bytes)
- 2. Topband: BPL (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Aug 16 22:19:11 2003
- They do indeed, and the results of the extensive modeling and measurement effort they describe are obviously of critical interest to ARRL. It would be very interesting to know the extent of the coope
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00083.html (8,019 bytes)
- 3. Topband: receiving bandpass filters (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Tue Aug 19 15:35:00 2003
- Is there a commercial source for pre-built 160M bandpass filters for receiving applications? I'm looking for a filter to use ahead of a preamplifier in a pennant array. I've been looking at W3LPL's b
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-08/msg00092.html (6,635 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Re: UCW+LCW (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sun Jul 20 12:50:24 2003
- Interesting, since this is what PIEXX did when they built their replacement microprocessor board for the TS-930 -- they set it up so that when the dial lock button was pushed the main VFO knob functi
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-07/msg00098.html (6,952 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Quarter wave Vs Eigth Wave (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Thu Apr 17 17:29:34 2003
- Also, in his recent series in NCJ, W4RNL went extensively into this using NEC-4, which can accurately model buried radials. I remember being surprised by his results; while radials could help, and ce
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-04/msg00033.html (9,194 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Quarter wave Vs Eigth Wave (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sun Apr 20 18:06:40 2003
- If the models don't represent real conditions, why bother? The whole idea of modeling is to predict how physical systems will operate in the real world. If the results are meaningless.... 73, Pete N4
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-04/msg00041.html (8,090 bytes)
- 7. Topband: ZJ Electronics Beverage Box (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Thu Mar 13 12:01:03 2003
- I just opened up a ZJ Electronics Beverage Box that I was thinking of using at the feedpoint of a K9AY loop. To my surprise, it appears to use a very small encapsulated 9:1 transformer and an almost
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-03/msg00036.html (6,691 bytes)
- 8. Topband: New To 160 meters (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Sat Feb 1 21:23:14 2003
- Dennis, check out http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/bandplan.html#160m. The DX window is a function (less and less common) of rules for individual contests. Welcome to topband! 73, Pete N
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-02/msg00008.html (6,934 bytes)
- 9. Topband: EWE/pennant transformer kits (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Tue Jan 28 09:13:23 2003
- Who sells kits (cores/wire) for transformers of this sort? I want to retrofit a ZJ Beverage Box for use with a pennant. 73, Pete N4ZR The World HF Contest Station Database has just been updated. Are
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00252.html (6,383 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Contest Problems (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Tue Jan 28 16:41:38 2003
- I think the problem is less in the measurement than in the assignment of the "letter grades." Is 60 dB down at 1 kHz "good", "fair", or "very good"? And is the ARRL willing to run the risk of alienat
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00258.html (8,701 bytes)
- 11. Topband: Contest Problems (score: 132)
- Author: n4zr at contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Wed Jan 29 17:57:10 2003
- I see bits and pieces of good sense on all sides of this discussion. A few things that occur to me. I actually think that the ARRL lab is increasingly responsive to the amateur community and is liste
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00274.html (8,939 bytes)
- 12. Topband: FT-1000D External Receive (score: 10)
- Author: n4zr@contesting.com (Pete Smith)
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 08:32:00 -0500
- I've asked this question in the past on towertalk, and been strongly advised to use protectors, particularly in an SO2R situation where any built-in relay protection is not a factor. You might check
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00089.html (7,995 bytes)
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