- 1. Topband: Fw: CQWW 160 CW from the black hole of Asia (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob 9V1GO/G4VGO" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>(by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 12:27:49 -0500
- The first night (here) was not good until about one and a half to two hours after SS local time as the uplift as the sun goes down disappeared about July last year. A few locals came out of the noise
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00014.html (8,386 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Time to QSY (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>(by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:53:49 -0500
- Hello Top Banders, The UMTS 3G network for Singapore took two years to get running and now it's working so time to move on to another challenge. The 160m antennas will be coming down in a week or so
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00037.html (7,906 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: C21DL (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 06:50:27 +0800
- Ain't no antenna that will reduce our noise at the equator, it just takes cast iron ears and a lot of patience. 73 Bob 9V1GO _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topb
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00047.html (7,316 bytes)
- 4. Topband: 9V1PC QRV Again (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 06:37:33 +0800
- Top Banders, Spent a while under the hot tropical sun getting the far end of Peter, 9V1PC's inverted L up into a tree in the jungle behind his new house. The last attempt involved black spitting cobr
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00141.html (7,358 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Support for Flags? (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:26:08 +0800 (SGT)
- Hi Eric, Nose-to-nose I have found in the past works well, DPDT relay at the feedpoint. Back to back I found kills the F/B ratio. GL es 73 Bob YB5AQB 9V1GO G4VGO KY0C (Sent from my GPRS mobile) Power
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-06/msg00006.html (8,409 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: T vertical is up (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:21:34 +0800 (SGT)
- I have used about 10 elevated radials, all at about the height you suggest, each less than a 1/4 wave (about 25m long). The installation at EI7IU a few years ago did well, working XZ0 and more than
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00012.html (8,448 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: QRM from ASIA on TOP BAND (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:36:29 +0800 (SGT)
- Snip: Nothing ! Nil ! Nada !..... Join the club, JA is just up the road from YB5 and four months of CQ and listening every weekend has brought ZERO results from JA. The past two years from 9V1 (30 mi
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00072.html (7,622 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Re Asian Jammer.. (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:41:18 +0800 (SGT)
- Snip... "If it is to become a permanent fixture then I guess a lot of operators will lose interest in the band......" My feelings exactly. There must be a way to stop this, the JARL is supposedly try
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00232.html (7,748 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: UW0MF re: Asian Jammer (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:40:11 +0700
- Snip.... ....As described by the guys in JA, this is not pulse & therefore cannot be OTHR. From JA5DQH's post, there is some convergence of QTEs, but need to eliminate P5, W-portable-HL & HL as sourc
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00241.html (8,035 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: VK9 in comparison to VK6 (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:32:24 +0700
- Snip...."Mike 6HD and I have it easy compared to VK9, 9V1 and YB operators in this respect."..... AMEN!!! The QRN, fickle propagation, all helped by whoever is jamming 160m makes this season very int
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00323.html (7,196 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: Technology "QSO's" (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:28:25 +0800 (SGT)
- Snip.... .....................End What Jeff and I were doing was not for the 'first' between our stations or even for a new country on Top Band. What we were trying to do was to find out where and wh
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00145.html (10,177 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: OTHR kills VK9CG (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:02:54 +0700
- I have found that the Dragon is off on some Wednesday and most Thursday nights, maybe lucky then 73 Bob YB5AQB/9V1GO _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@conte
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00169.html (6,543 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: The death of 160m DX contests? (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:54:33 +0700
- Snip.......... I just hope you blokes in Europe and the USA like working each other (should I cynically say, like shooting fish in a barrel?), because if there isn't some changes in rules to make lif
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00138.html (7,707 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: "Magnetic Receiving Loop / small loop , brief summary. (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:35:13 +0700
- --Original Message-- To paraphrase K1ZM: "Try and have available every type of receive antenna you have room for." There is no substitute for trying an antenna to see how it works - especially when t
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00287.html (10,284 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: noise cancellers (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:15:39 +0700
- Are they useful or only expensive toys ?? == Very, very useful in an urban environment, I have used the MFJ 1025 and 1026 to great advantage in many noise saturated locations. Also they do a great jo
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00064.html (7,154 bytes)
- 16. Topband: The Black Hole is Real (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 13:12:02 +0800 (SGT)
- Hello Top Banders, It has taken several months of operation to confirm what I suspected all along, a move 35 miles closer to the equator has landed me in a real propagation black hole. This weekend's
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00400.html (8,505 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: Weak signal-fast CW (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:02:25 +0800 (SGT)
- My question is, what is the Greg, I agree, the fast keying rings in bad conditions and narrow filters here in the tropics, very slow speeds used by many and the QSB eats the signal. 20 wpm is a good
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-02/msg00206.html (7,795 bytes)
- 18. Topband: Jakarta Ham Fest Special Event Station (score: 1)
- Author: "Robert Marshall-Read" <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:52:20 +0700
- Top Banders.... YB0ZEE is now on the air (1819.3) with a full sized 1/4 wave vertical suspended from a balloon. Dudy (YB0DPO) and Jo (YC0LOW) and I will be taking shifts at the SR and SS windows for
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-06/msg00040.html (6,900 bytes)
- 19. Re: Topband: Totally Deaf (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:46:42 +0700
- SNIP.......... I suppose I should just quit trying to work through the ever strong Equatorial noise on 160M and work the easy bands instead. It's a lot less strain on my ears, and I don't have to sta
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00091.html (7,900 bytes)
- 20. Re: Topband: Radials Again (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Marshall-Read <rmread@starhub.net.sg>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:30:04 +0700
- We miss something magical about Amateur Radio when we stop dreaming. Isn't that why we collectively got into this game in the first place...? End......... Yep Eddy, you got it in one try! I have deg
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00034.html (8,144 bytes)
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