- 1. Topband: propagation during the Stew Perry test (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 11:59:36 -0700
- Good morning esteemed reflectees, A good bit has been said about the propogation during the Stew Perry Distance Challenge this past December 28th and 29th. I seems the band was very different in many
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00029.html (7,029 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Searchlight effect during SPDC (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 22:52:48 -0700
- Good evening esteemed Topbanders, A good bit has been said about the propogation during the Stew Perry Distance Challenge this past December 28th and 29th. It seems the band was very different in man
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00056.html (10,519 bytes)
- 3. Topband: CQ160 Rule Changes in 2003 - Multi-Op Time Limit- Summary and Recommendation (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:54:02 -0500
- Hi John and all, It certainly makes the playing field a bit more equitable for all of us that are FAR from any metro area OR large population region. In our situation there would not be ONE Q logged
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00088.html (7,213 bytes)
- 4. Topband: A few words (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:19:40 -0500
- Good evening guys, I have been reading all the posts related to this subject for the past couple of weeks. I have just a few paragraphs to add to the mix. As I am still a normal working stiff with ma
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00146.html (8,471 bytes)
- 5. Topband: XZ0A 160 M Skew Path (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 22:03:19 -0700
- Top Banders, My recent post regarding the skew path experience at XZ0A in January/February 2000 has generated some interest in the log of Top Band contacts. I have already sent some of this informati
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-01/msg00154.html (8,670 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Finding powerline noise (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:30:24 -0500
- Ford, If I might. In my 30+ years of distribution power line experience I have seen/found very few RF noise problems cuased by "leaking" primary voltage conductors. At least in my world and environme
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00152.html (8,829 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Finding powerline noise (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 06:38:56 -0500
- Tom, My response to Ford's post was purposely short. I did not want to write a treatise on the subject. To answer your question: NO. I was stating that, in my area of the country with the types of di
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00174.html (10,698 bytes)
- 8. Topband: beverage support spacing (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:15:06 -0700
- INQUIRY info topic. REPLY at COMMENT I have used 1 1/2" PVC for portable Beverage antenna supports for the last 7 years. I have moved them many times. I also used this system to install the "farm" at
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00137.html (8,114 bytes)
- 9. Topband: 160 Vertical (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:26:30 -0400
- Bill, It will take a bit of experimenting, and quite a lot of time on the tower, but this is the approach that my experience dictates you take. You need to find the effective 1/4 WL point from the to
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-10/msg00054.html (8,212 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Use of the RCS-4 for Remote Beverages? (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen, N5IA)
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 07:02:31 -0700
- Bill, I used two of the RCS-4 in Yangon, Burma, for the XZ1N DXpedition in 1998. Worked well. I have used them here at home and in portable operations many times through 1,000's of feet of 1/2" and R
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-10/msg00120.html (8,017 bytes)
- 11. Topband: XW1HS (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:16:51 +0100
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- /archives//html/Topband/2002-04/msg00011.html (6,891 bytes)
- 12. Topband: Removing RF from lines on a directly fed tower. (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:15:34 +0000
- Ken, For the installation at W7MCO (take a look at www.eaars.org/~n7gp ) at the insulated base located 30 feet above ground I installed the coiled coax chokes made of small silver plated teflon insul
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00009.html (7,624 bytes)
- 13. Topband: Number of radials - elevated vs grounded (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:41:50 +0000
- Don. In late 1965 and early 1966 I completed my 160 M version of your VHF groundplane antenna. The insulated base is 1/8 WL above ground level and the insulated radials (connected only to the feedlin
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00113.html (7,498 bytes)
- 14. Topband: Whatcha callit? (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:59:28 +0000
- It's called "a top loaded, elevated feedpoint Ground Plane (Marconi) antenna" if the description is correct. Milt, N5IA
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00154.html (6,396 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Conditions on 160m last night (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:37:56 +0000
- Ken, We worked you early on, perhaps 30 minutes later than usual, and heard your station well all night long from way out west. The band did not open for us to the 1/2/3 call area until quite late. N
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00150.html (9,430 bytes)
- 16. Topband: CQ Plaque (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:01:28 -0700
- Thanks to Dave, K4JRB. I received yesterday my first CQ Plaque. It is for Zone 3 Single Op in the 1999 CQ WW 160 SSB contest which I did from N7GP. NICE!! 73, and CU all in the CQ 160 CW in about 7.3
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00136.html (6,329 bytes)
- 17. Topband: XU7ACB (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:24:15 -0700
- Exactly the same problem from the W east coast area that I experienced at XZ0A the first good opening of the DXped. DON'T all call on the same freq. Everyone has a MUCH better chance of being heard/w
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00052.html (7,836 bytes)
- 18. Topband: condx and comments 12/28 (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:24:26 +0000
- Hello fellow Top Banders, I picked the MP off the floor of the shack where it had been since being deposited after Field Day in June and installed in on the operating desk last night. I spent the aft
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00136.html (7,501 bytes)
- 19. Topband: W7IUV & N5IA (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:25:05 -0700
- Bill, When I read Larry's comments this PM I was wondering about the same thing; why wasn't Larry hearing these same stations. I heard many others. The listed ones were the only ones I tried to conta
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00160.html (7,434 bytes)
- 20. Topband: QTH (score: 1)
- Author: n5ia@zia-connection.com (Milt Jensen)
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 16:00:32 +0000
- Fellow Top Banders, Robin, WA6CDR and I had tenative plans to do a MS in CQ WW 160 from Herb's place in the VI at the end of January. However, things have arisen that preclude us making the trip. Bel
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-11/msg00023.html (7,808 bytes)
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