- 1. Re: Topband: Phased Pennants: Staggered? (score: 1)
- Author: <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:46:21 -0500
- Right on, Tom. Nearly repeating what Tom posted, beverages, pennants, et al are all about **NOT** HEARING WHAT YOU **DON'T** WANT TO HEAR. That means you need to know WHERE what you DON'T want to hea
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-11/msg00062.html (10,700 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: RDF (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:01:06 -0500
- In EZNEC 3.0, on your chosen antenna, set the plot type to 3D. Then select FF Plot. At the bottom of the main EZNEC window (not the plot window) it will give the average gain. Use real ground and spe
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-11/msg00082.html (8,569 bytes)
- 3. Topband: FERRITE BEADS, an alternative (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:52:25 -0500
- Getting significant common mode suppression on 160 meters with split blocks or "beads" for RG8 size coax is rather expensive unless you just happen to have a private stock. Try 76" of RG-400/U and a
- /archives//html/Topband/2003-12/msg00162.html (8,779 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: Transceiver Key Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:02:43 -0500
- If you get on the Elecraft reflector archives, and search on "clicks" you will see quite a thread on it. I have a K2, and I have measured the clicks on mine. A crude summary, K2 does have clicks, but
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00051.html (8,461 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: More clicks with QSK? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:23:04 -0500
- radios, undesirable If you are doing things right, your relays should be "making" before the 850's rf out rises, and "breaking" after it dies. If not you are closing/opening relay contacts under powe
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00051.html (7,592 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: More clicks with QSK? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 01:17:26 -0500
- Hmm, what would have been the cause of the blackened, pitted contacts on the antenna relay on my AL1200, which I had to replace, before I caught on to the delay settings in my MP. I would definitely
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00056.html (10,062 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: SteppIR for Tophat? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:47:56 -0400
- The problem with a SteppIR would be that the tower tuning changes with the band and frequency the SteppIR is set to. At the very least the SteppIR would need to always be set for a certain frequency
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00046.html (8,313 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Tophat? Does it have to be at the top? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:05:01 -0400
- I agree with Earl. Much of the difference in opinion on this subject has to do with what is really a fairly complex situation. It is convenient if a whole category of proposed construction is defined
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-06/msg00025.html (9,540 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: Tophat? Does it have to be at the top? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:30:16 -0400
- Folks, agree And likely what the correspondent is describing that you refer to as "upside-down Christmas tree" is not actually a complete description, and unintentionally leaves out some critical det
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-06/msg00041.html (11,249 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: 450 ohms ladder line (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:23:01 -0400
- The high end 450 window line from Wireman (and others?) is a stranded copper-clad variety that is quite flexible. They sell a copperweld solid #18, which is as you describe it (#551), but also sell t
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-07/msg00033.html (8,780 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Quieting the transmit antenna duirng receive (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 23:27:19 -0400
- If you use an MP, you can use the menu to set a running fixed delay between key down and power out on CW. This causes the entire cw waveform to be continuously delayed by up to 30 ms. This is like a
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00006.html (9,039 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Inverted L Matching Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 23:08:01 -0500
- Try http://www.rfparts.com/caps.html#doorknob 73, Guy. -- Original Message -- From: "George McCrary" <k8qm@nc.rr.com> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:38 PM Subject: To
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00020.html (8,689 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: broadbanding an L (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:57:24 -0500
- In the spirit of listing things you can't do to artificially make the "L" broad... How about nixing a pathetic ground system at the feed point that wastes half or more of the energy keeping the earth
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00013.html (7,626 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: wideband inv-L (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 09:41:44 -0500
- ... However, the slightest loss really extends the bandwidth and I suspect this is > what many find.... Dave WX7G Yep, the universal bugger on 160. So much so that any sign of new "bandwidth" generat
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00059.html (7,253 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Re: S-meter (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 22:57:50 -0500
- Top ten list of reasons why a DX station might send you a 599 and still ask for a repeat on your exchange: -- Number Ten: The guy can't copy anything over 3 wpm in his head, his little code copying b
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00145.html (10,861 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: ? Key-clicks FT1000MK-V field ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:52:33 -0500
- It has NOT been the same there without JA1MP. -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Tippett" <btippett@alum.mit.edu> To: <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 9:36 AM Subject: Topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00225.html (9,804 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: EZNEC prediction help (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:50:58 -0500
- Probably not so complicated as you might think. In any event, any 1/4 vertical over anything other than salt water or a copper-plated ranch is going to lose a lot of power to ground loss. Typically -
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00118.html (8,011 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: Help de-coupling the TX antenna (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:17:00 -0500
- Assuming (bad word, I know) that you are running coax directly to the antenna feedpoint, and any matching you do is right at the antenna feedpoint... Check and see if the path of the TX antenna in th
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00140.html (9,004 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: 160M wire (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:08:06 -0500
- You can find SILVER-plated, teflon coated, stranded #12 in 400 or 500 foot reels from time to time on EBay. Think that might hold up rather well and possibly perform a little better over time. I've a
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00214.html (8,015 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: SPAM:(L1) antenna question (score: 1)
- Author: "Guy Olinger, K2AV" <olinger@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:37:16 -0400
- "my antenna options seem to me to be a wire slanting from the window down to the parking lot below ... with an antenna tuner and the building neutral as a counterpoise." The antenna you propose may
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-08/msg00035.html (8,278 bytes)
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