- 1. Re: Topband: Boring Report (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:31:51 -0500
- Interesting. In support of Tree's statement about Beverages in ravines, I have a similar (?) situation. I have 4 Beverages, 485 feet south, 590 feet southwest, west, and northwest. All of these Beve
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00028.html (9,266 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Sunset peak today (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:43:18 -0500
- Conditions this season have been mostly poor to terrible for me. Until today I had not seen any evidence of a real sunset peak. Today was a radical change! A few JA's were 339 briefly at my sunset an
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00118.html (7,166 bytes)
- 3. Topband: mysterious band (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:17:56 -0500
- Wow! I had only been asleep for about 2 hours when something woke me up. It was just sunrise and all the equipment was still on. To my amazement, I found the band full of JA's with VERY strong signal
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00358.html (8,492 bytes)
- 4. Re: Topband: conditions this morning (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:13:10 -0500
- Don't give up on that path just because you have no darkness overlap. It may be different for you, but from here in central Maine I was able to work VK6HD last season while we were both in daylight.
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00363.html (8,163 bytes)
- 5. Topband: great condx (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:13:02 -0500
- The topband season seems to be heating up at last. Maybe it's just a late bloomer. :-) As so often happens during the opening hours of a geomagnetic disturbance which happens to follow a long quiet s
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00389.html (7,766 bytes)
- 6. Topband: More JA and contest (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:58:16 -0500
- We had a rather unusual opening to JA this morning. That path normally peaks right at sunrise (on the few days there is anything at all). This morning the peak was 30 minutes before sunrise. I heard
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00403.html (6,977 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: CQ 160 and DXwindow (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:58:40 -0500
- And because I wanted a nice clear frequency where I could hear them call I wound up running at and above 1855. Sometimes up to 1865. I'm certain that the US run rates could have been higher lower in
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00018.html (7,565 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Topband and the DX-Window (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:37:41 -0500
- I usually avoid discussions on band usage / planning like the plague because it inevitably gets us nowhere. I will make an exception this one time because the above quote was in response to something
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00031.html (9,059 bytes)
- 9. Topband: Shunt fed tower guying question (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:20:24 -0400
- Hi topbanders, If I've missed an obvious answer to this question I apologize. I couldn't find any reference which really seems to provide an answer. I'm getting ready to put up a tower which will be
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00057.html (7,141 bytes)
- 10. Topband: gamma match question (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:03:32 -0400
- Fellow topbanders, I have a question for the antenna gurus. This may be a stupid question, but having searched the list archives and read every reference I could get my hands on (and finding no answe
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00093.html (7,683 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Auroral Oval (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:44:24 -0400
- It's all part of the magic I guess. Even up here in the soon to be frozen north, where in general we suffer more with geomagnetic disturbances, they sometimes help. Sometimes even very challenging pa
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00154.html (7,805 bytes)
- 12. Topband: Unusual condx (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:14:38 -0500
- Interesting conditions last night. Worked Mike VK6HD around sunset. Great to see you again Mike. The usually easy VK6 path has not been good so far this season. Mike was coming in northeast over Euro
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00062.html (7,019 bytes)
- 13. Topband: 3 wire gamma section (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:32:12 -0500
- Fellow Topbanders, This is probably another of those questions I can't find an answer to because it is obvious to everyone else. But it's so late in the season and so cold working topside I will show
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00179.html (7,234 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: 160 mtr low signal - CW Pitch (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:52:00 -0500
- Having been involved in weak signal CW operation on low bands and VHF (EME) for years I have heard this question come up numerous times and seen a lot of interesting debates. The bottom line is what
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00196.html (9,416 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Protecting RX input & FK8CP this morning (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:42:08 -0400
- Greetings fellow Topbanders, When my rig comes back from the repair shop I want to modify it to add a RX antenna input. My current method of selecting RX antennas is awkward and may have resulted in
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00024.html (8,464 bytes)
- 16. Re: Topband: End of season ???????? (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:23:42 -0400
- Not me, I hope! I missed much of the so-called "season" due to illness and then rig failure. I'm hoping to have a replacement rig soon and get my flood ravaged Beverages repaired as soon as it's safe
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-04/msg00129.html (7,660 bytes)
- 17. Topband: OX/NA1SA (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:04:56 -0400
- I know I'm not the only one still looking for OX on top band so I thought I would pass this on. I asked the 20m op if the current expedition would be on 160 and he said yes. Good luck to those seekin
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-05/msg00027.html (6,274 bytes)
- 18. Topband: FT-2000 for serious TB DXing? (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:00:49 -0400
- I am trying to reach a decision as to what rig to get. I would like to hear from any topband DXers who have used the FT-2000. I am interested in any comments on this rig, good or bad, but am especial
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-05/msg00088.html (6,820 bytes)
- 19. Topband: Africa (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:48:44 -0400
- There is life in the band. June 24 sunset brought readable signals from 5H3EE, 5X1VB, and 9Q1TB using vertical and inverted V. My Beverages are temporarily unavailable. All were 559 or better at one
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-06/msg00046.html (6,282 bytes)
- 20. Topband: shunt fed tower detuning (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Kelley N1BUG <paul.kelley.n1bug@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:47:03 -0400
- Once again summer is drawing to a close and I have not completed half what I set out to do. And once again I'm looking for a little nudge in the right direction to speed things up. My new 160m transm
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-08/msg00121.html (7,519 bytes)
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