- 41. Topband: TEN-TEC IS LISTENING! (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 07:02:12 +0800
- VK6VZ replied: G'day all, Glad to hear that Ten Tec seems to be listening. For another interesting approach, take a look at the Elecraft K2 kit at http://www.elecraft.com This goes back to a single c
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00079.html (9,804 bytes)
- 42. Topband: Reactance problem (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 02:51:15 +0000
- VK6VZ replied: G'day My Autek RF-1 suffers in a similar manner from BC-pickup - in this case from a 100kW BC station some 20km away. When I put up my Marconi-T with a 66' vertical section, the impeda
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-03/msg00140.html (8,699 bytes)
- 43. Topband: Down Under Diary 8 Feb 2001 (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 06:17:43 +0800
- G'day all Some propagation from VK6 into northern Euope at around 2130Z, with contacts with OH2PJ (56/79) and Gus SM3BCS. Ross 9M2AX was QRV on 1831 at this time. No sign of S9LA or the 5U operation
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00020.html (6,766 bytes)
- 44. Topband: 5u expedition (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 06:59:20 +0800
- G'day all, If anyone has a chance to talk to any of the operators at 5U on HF, please could they ask them to come onto 160m between 2030Z - 2130Z for south east Asia, JA, eastern Indian Ocean and wes
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00035.html (6,532 bytes)
- 45. Topband: S9LA (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 03:19:10 +0000
- G'day I am pretty sure Charles S92SS found a way of getting around the problem when he operated on 160 on Sao Tome a couple of years ago. Does anyone know what he did? This could be something the nex
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00059.html (6,447 bytes)
- 46. Topband: Noise and reception (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:52:39 +0800
- G'day Don, A couple of other simple ideas you might like to try as a low noise rx antenna, as you seem to have plenty of real estate, is to try a couple of low full-size horizontally polarised antenn
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00090.html (9,161 bytes)
- 47. Topband: Let's try stuff (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:44:11 +0800
- Us radio amateurs do so love talking (and listening) and sometimes we talk (or listen) ourselves out of trying something. Some antennas work well in particular situations, while sometimes antennas th
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00095.html (11,735 bytes)
- 48. Topband: Noise and reception (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:04:40 +0000
- W8JI replied: G'day Tom and all, This is an interesting one. Tom's point about horizontal polarised antennas discriminating from noise at a distance is the key one - if the noise source is relatively
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00141.html (10,608 bytes)
- 49. Topband: Polarisation and Power Coupling (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:04:42 +0000
- GM3POI replied: G'day Clive GM3POI is right when he says my 1/8 wave ground screen is a compromise, but is actually far less of one than it appears to be and the reasons for my lack of success with v
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00142.html (9,986 bytes)
- 50. Topband: Let's try stuff (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:10:02 +0800
- W8JI replied: VK6VZ replied: Rex ZL3REX is considerably farther from the geomagnetic equator than VK6 - at a higher latitude where the power coupling into the ionisphere very definitely favours a ver
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00158.html (11,994 bytes)
- 51. Topband: Polarisation and Power Coupling (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:31:01 +0800
- G'day Tom and all Greg ZL3IX and I covered the situations of ZL3REX and VK3ZL in earlier e-mails and their success is explainable by higher latitude/better soil conductivity and better soil conductiv
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00184.html (9,933 bytes)
- 52. Topband: Band planning in contests (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 06:46:18 +0800
- G'day all It has been interesting reading the passionate e-mail thread on 160m band planning in contests. In many countries where 160m operation permitted, space available is relatively limited - in
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00242.html (8,128 bytes)
- 53. Topband: VK6VZ/6 in the Stew (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 07:38:54 +0800
- G'day Operating from the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse, at the extreme south-western point of Western Australia, as VK6VZ/6 in the Stew Perry was an amazing experience - and absolutely exhausting. Conditio
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00016.html (8,770 bytes)
- 54. Topband: Dedicated topband transceiver (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:35:04 +0800
- G'day On the drive back from the VK6VZ/6 operation, my friend Phil VK6APH, who had spent some time (between HF and 6m duties) watching how I operated the FT1000MP during the Stew Perry, remarked that
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00080.html (9,953 bytes)
- 55. Topband: Re: dedicated topband transceiver (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:07:27 +0800
- G'day Poor IF gain distribution seems to be a common problem in several commercial HF transceivers produced during the last decade. I had a pretty poor opinion of the IF gain distribution of my off-t
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00115.html (8,717 bytes)
- 56. Topband: VK6VZ CQ 160 wash-out (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:21:03 +0800
- G'day Hope you are all having fun in the CQ 160. The magic band was a wash-out first night here. Heard W8JI about 5 minutes before sunset, but thought I'd wait until his signal got stronger - at suns
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00208.html (6,701 bytes)
- 57. Topband: Down Under Diary 7/12/01 (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 09:36:33 +0800
- G'day Good conditions from the east coast of North America extending into the Mid-West for around 1 hour, starting at about 1130z. Stations were worked from Conneticut and New Jersey extending south
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00019.html (7,017 bytes)
- 58. Topband: Amendment to Down Under Diary 7/12/01 (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 08:29:55 +0800
- G'day pattern for this season. Oops. I meant west into Texas and west of the Rockies - as most of you would have guessed... Sorry for any confusion. Sometimes I get things a bit back-to-front down he
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00025.html (6,749 bytes)
- 59. Topband: Rotary antenna switch (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 19:07:49 +0800
- G'day, During the last few days, my 4-pole rotary coaxial antenna switch died, after about seven years constant use. I was never particularly happy with the standard of its construction and would be
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00027.html (7,255 bytes)
- 60. Topband: VK6 in the ARRL (score: 1)
- Author: sire@iinet.net.au (Steve Ireland)
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:33:10 +0800
- G'day, For those who would like an example of how selective topband openings can be, in contrast to the 70+ stations worked by Mike VK6HD (some 450 km south east of me) last night, I worked exactly o
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-12/msg00031.html (7,283 bytes)
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