- 101. Re: Topband: qsling (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:29:34 -0700
- AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have to show anyone anything to know that I DID IT!!!!! de Milt, N5IA _______________________________________________ 160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated with
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-10/msg00457.html (7,678 bytes)
- 102. Re: Topband: WAS on 160 meters in three (3) days (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:49:42 -0700
- Wonder how many worked WAS during this year's ARRL160, and it would have been a completely different game had it occurred this past weekend. -- Julius, My experience this year from DM52, extreme Sout
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-12/msg00174.html (8,529 bytes)
- 103. Re: Topband: 160, what a night it was for me! (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:28:53 -0700
- Think about it Rick. Is there much else to do in the upper Midwest in the dead of winter? Same here though. Lots of MN stations in my NM log. Milt, N5IA ______________________________________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00097.html (7,579 bytes)
- 104. Re: Topband: PJ2T on 160 Meters: Europe Before Sunset (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:00:45 -0700
- <SNIP> -- Jeff, The exact same thing was noted from 24 degrees South and 124 degrees West at Ducie Island, VP6DX, in middle and late February, 2008. Remember this is the equivalent of middle and late
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00082.html (8,913 bytes)
- 105. Re: Topband: Inverted L (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:17:33 -0700
- I had forgotten about the insulating of the parasitics on the F12 stuff. He would just have to remove the slit plastic tubing (slit pvc water pipe) and tighten the element mount U bolts directly on t
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00123.html (9,597 bytes)
- 106. Topband: Noise resolution at N5BG/NI5T (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:22:23 -0700
- This is a followup to the report in our 3830 posting for the CQ 160 CW contest. It is intended as a help for others that might be plagued with a long term, or suddenly appearing, power line noise sou
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00147.html (12,341 bytes)
- 107. Re: Topband: CE1/K7CA (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:28:28 -0700
- Neil, Al is located quite a distance north of Santiago, the capital city, in the small community of Huasco. Therefore he was quite distant from the epicenter of the quake, about 500 miles to the nort
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00020.html (7,963 bytes)
- 108. Re: Topband: Fish net beacon locations? (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:41:48 -0700
- All, We "rescued" a couple of "flotsam and jetsom" beacons that had washed up on shore at Ducie Atoll, VP6DX. A couple of the more hardened Top Banders in the group took them apart and examined them.
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00131.html (9,003 bytes)
- 109. Topband: Fish net beacon locations? Photos now posted. (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:17:54 -0700
- -- All, Brian, N9ADG made a site available to me. The photos are now posted there for all to view. You can get to them by clicking on the link below. Once the page loads, double click on the first ph
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00139.html (9,175 bytes)
- 110. Re: Topband: K3NA Loop Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:59:39 -0700
- In the most simple explanation of the theory of operation of the Beverage antenna you must understand that the single wire above (or on) the ground is 1/2 of an unbalanced transmission line. The eart
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00064.html (13,285 bytes)
- 111. Re: Topband: K3NA Loop Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:09:30 -0700
- Herb, My only response is to suppose that the layer or "normal" dirt you have, the former hay field is in fact acting as it should without or with very little influence from the brackish water table
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00071.html (17,993 bytes)
- 112. Re: Topband: K3NA Loop Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:28:21 -0700
- Greg, If I understand your comment and question correctly, my answer is the following. These are my opinions based on the knowledge I have obtained and the experience of working with Beverages for 15
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-06/msg00072.html (12,313 bytes)
- 113. Re: Topband: your opinions (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:36:00 -0700
- Good morning Larry, To start with I would lay out the whole array as a wheel with the hub as the collection/switching point for all the Beverages. The Beverages would form the spokes of the wheel. Th
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-07/msg00088.html (8,562 bytes)
- 114. Re: Topband: 2 wire beverage question (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:01:57 -0700
- Ken, I have been constructing 2-wire Beverages for the past 15 years using separate feeds for each direction. In fact, I have never constructed them any other way. My reasoning for doing this is as f
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00079.html (8,945 bytes)
- 115. Re: Topband: [Topband] DX window for the southern hemisphere (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:13:20 -0700
- The "Contest within a Contest" should be sponsored by, and PROMOTED, by the CQ 160 contest. Additionally, the DX window should be reinstituted, for CQing, ONLY by those stations physically located in
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00097.html (9,215 bytes)
- 116. Re: Topband: Preferred Choke Baluns (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 22:32:09 -0700
- And I make all of my choke baluns for 160 Meter energy from 30 turns, 6" in diameter, of whatever cable it is. This is coaxial leads as well as rotor cables, etc. Works like a champ. Milt, N5IA Charl
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00028.html (9,679 bytes)
- 117. Re: Topband: Preferred Choke Baluns (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:55:27 -0700
- Jim, Thanks for your response to my post. I accept your reasons for what you do and have recommended. However, for all my applications, I stand by my statement. For me, many, many, many installations
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00037.html (8,775 bytes)
- 118. Re: Topband: Beverages near the ocean (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:29:58 -0700
- Mike, It is not that they are near an ocean. It is if the conductivity of the salt water is near enough under the beverage element such that the salt water (or salted earth ie. salt marsh) is acting
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-04/msg00073.html (10,412 bytes)
- 119. Re: Topband: Effect of current max not at base of vertical. (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:10:54 -0700
- This is an answer to an off reflector conversation, relating to a "too long" electrical length over radials reducing performance. I am writing to the list since the subject and it's objection occur i
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-09/msg00089.html (8,361 bytes)
- 120. Re: Topband: PL 259 for RG6 (score: 1)
- Author: "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:13:11 -0700
- Mike, I have had the same problem you describe with the "chassis" mount female "F" connectors. I am now using the PC board mounted female "F" connectors and installing them on a small PC board where
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00068.html (9,736 bytes)
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