- 41. Topband: Base Loaded Vertical vs. Asymmetrical Top Loading (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:18:23 -0800
- Dear Topband Aficionados - I could use a little help. I am currently using a 60 foot base loaded vertical, with an 8" diameter coil made of copper tubing. I know top loading gives much better efficie
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00158.html (7,425 bytes)
- 42. Re: Topband: Top Band Receiving Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:52:44 -0800
- John Harden, D.M.D. wrote: The best, and most cost effective, receiving antennas out there are the Hi-Z Antennas triangle, 4-square and 8-circle arrays. I have the triangle array and it works fantast
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-02/msg00174.html (7,525 bytes)
- 43. Re: Topband: Top Band INactivity (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:29:47 -0800
- This morning, the band seemed dead (more on this later). No stations could be heard. I called CQ on and off for maybe 45 minutes, with no answer. When I wasn't calling CQ I was tuning the band looki
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00009.html (8,349 bytes)
- 44. Topband: 160 Not Dead Yet (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:51:50 -0700
- Woke up about 6:00 a.m. California time, stumble to the rig, and was very pleased to hear lots of strong signals out of Asia and Russia ... Du1, RU0, JA, 9M6, etc. The signals were from S1 to S9. Som
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00091.html (8,109 bytes)
- 45. Re: Topband: Asymmetric radials for GP antennas; Just in case others seek what I've just found... (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:17:45 -0700
- Christman has written a number of excellent articles on this subject. Some of which are in the ARRL book "Vertical Antenna Classics". FWIW, I have been using a base loaded 60 foot vertical on my urba
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-05/msg00052.html (10,957 bytes)
- 46. Re: Topband: New entry to TopBand with antenna question (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:51:15 -0700
- Mike, If your rig does not have an RX only port, you can use a rx/tx relay. There are a number of commercial units available. One (with which I have no connection whatsoever) is made by KD9SV and is
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-09/msg00060.html (9,847 bytes)
- 47. Re: Topband: Top band: Preventing QRM (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:56:26 -0800
- Good Morning: I have a very modest 160m station. Since I cannot hear as well as most of you, I run the risk of calling CQ on what appears to be a clear frequency and QRMing a DX station calling CQ or
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-01/msg00149.html (7,287 bytes)
- 48. Re: Topband: Top band despondent (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:55:59 -0800
- John, Do not despair, my fellow Topband Aficionado! I also live on a 1/4 lot in a residential subdivision in San Jose - part of the Black Hole of the 160 meter world. I don't have the luxury of livin
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-02/msg00019.html (10,078 bytes)
- 49. Re: Topband: Radial question (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:32:34 -0800
- I currently use the spray on my patio, lawn and driveway as a ground system. It works so well I took down my elevated radial system which made my XYL very happy. Now I have a much more efficient ante
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-02/msg00154.html (8,531 bytes)
- 50. Topband: LOTW (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:41:41 -0800
- It has been asked: "Why don't more people use LOTW?" I put it off using LOTW for years because I feared, incorrectly, that it would be difficult to set up and use. Just last week, I finally got up th
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-02/msg00272.html (7,682 bytes)
- 51. Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:44:13 -0700
- I think the idea is that a qrp station might not be heard by a station so weak the qrp station needs a beverage to hear him. Of course, one could describe circumstances where that would be true and o
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-03/msg00201.html (14,411 bytes)
- 52. Topband: Meaning of AGC "Delay" (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:40:10 -0700
- Dear All, I am looking at the AGC parameters on the FTdx9000D. Yaesu uses the term "delay" but does not define the term. Other manufactures use the term "attack" time which I understand to mean how q
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-06/msg00014.html (7,343 bytes)
- 53. Re: Topband: New Linear amp (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 03:28:48 +0000
- Uh, I thought the legal limit was 1.5 KW.... Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-07/msg00092.html (8,000 bytes)
- 54. Re: Topband: HK0NA on LOTW (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:26:31 +0000
- Has anyone received a LOTW confirmation fir HK0 yet? Bob AA6VB Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-08/msg00192.html (8,437 bytes)
- 55. Re: Topband: HK0NA and LOTW (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:12:10 +0000
- My missing 160 Q appeared on LOTW yesterday - so worth another look.... Bob/AA6VB " HK0NA LoTW: Bob, N2OO, uploaded the HK0NA QSOs to LoTW. About 15.000 QSOs appear to have been lost in the process,
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-08/msg00242.html (7,358 bytes)
- 56. Re: Topband: HiZ Install Small Lot (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:57:06 +0000
- Hi Joe, I don't have any advice. Only some words of encouragement regarding compromise installations, and that they can yield a substantial improvement. I live on a small city lot, no more than a qua
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-09/msg00257.html (9,979 bytes)
- 57. Topband: Image Rejection (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:25:02 +0000
- Good Day, I am considering an FTdx-5000 (currently use an FTdx-9000) for 160 meters and wondered about the Image and IF Rejection figures of the 5000. They are 60 and 99 db respectively. The Image re
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00221.html (6,932 bytes)
- 58. Re: Topband: Outing The Scofflaws... (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:51:37 +0000
- <<<Mike N2MS wrote: Good advice. Remember to contact the potential offender off-list. Agreed. A few years back, someone sent me a nice email to let me know I had terrible clicks. I immediately determ
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00144.html (8,654 bytes)
- 59. Re: Topband: Outing The Scofflaws... (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:33:30 +0000
- I amazed at the number of DXers who call non stop, almost regardless if whether PT0S is working someone. And then, my favorite, "7DX??". And many who have no possible relation to that call keep sendi
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00170.html (10,459 bytes)
- 60. Re: Topband: Outing The Scofflaws... (score: 1)
- Author: "Chortek, Robert L" <Robert.Chortek@berliner.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:56:01 +0000
- << John, k9uwa wrote: Sometimes its accidental guys. Picture this example. DX says: TU Everybody calls. I drop in my call twice at 30 WPM. Hear nothing. Drop in call twice again. ... during that brie
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-11/msg00174.html (10,011 bytes)
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