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1. Topband: P43W heard in VK6 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 21:13:47 +0800; After hearing strong central/south american signals on 40m around 1000Z today (Sunday), I tuned down to 1.8308 at 1008Z and was amazed to hear P43W calling CQ at a solid RST 559. Unfortunately, after; /archives//html/Topband/1999-08/msg00016.html (7,432 bytes)
2. Topband: WA7UQV SK (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:58:54 +0800; I was very sorry to hear about the death of Ron WA7UQV. He gave me the biggest thrill of my first couple of years on 160m from Western Australia, with a QSO in January 1996 when he was operating from; /archives//html/Topband/1999-08/msg00046.html (6,834 bytes)
3. Topband: 5H3RK heard in VK6 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 07:57:54 +0800; What a buzz! I got this morning for a quick look at the band before the kids got up and there at 2211Z on 1832, listening on 1833 was 5H3RK. He was peaking RST 559 and steadily working Europeans. I c; /archives//html/Topband/1999-08/msg00072.html (7,053 bytes)
4. Topband: The eleventh commandment of 160m DXing? (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 07:57:57 +0800; In early August some reflectees may remember a posting about P43 being heard at VK6VZ on 8/8. Hearing Zone 9 at any time of year in Western Australia is very very rare and no QSOs had ever been made; /archives//html/Topband/1999-08/msg00073.html (8,674 bytes)
5. Topband: 5H3RK heard again (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 06:56:08 +0800; For those who need 5H, it looks like 5H3RK is a regular on 1832, listening on 1833, during his evening time. He was RST 549 from 2215Z until just after my sunrise at 2235Z, calling CQ solidly but wit; /archives//html/Topband/1999-08/msg00075.html (6,732 bytes)
6. Topband: PACIFIC 160 METRES CONTEST 1999 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:51:00 +0800; Just a reminder to let all topbanders everywhere that next Saturday - 17 July - is the 1999 Pacific 160m Contest. Below are the times/rules of engagement. Please support the contest - it is a lot of; /archives//html/Topband/1999-07/msg00017.html (10,711 bytes)
7. Topband: Low 160m dipoles versus higher ones (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:50:57 +0800; For the last couple of weeks, I have been playing around doing some crude comparisons between my old inverted-U dipole at 45' (in the centre) and a new inverted vee at 90' at the apex. Now, I may be; /archives//html/Topband/1999-07/msg00018.html (8,406 bytes)
8. Topband: R1AND and R1MVA (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 13:52:56 +0800; Conditions were very interesting this morning, with Mike R1AND worked for my first QSO with Antarctica at 2253Z on 1831 kHz. Mike has been quite active during the last couple of weeks at around 2300Z; /archives//html/Topband/1999-07/msg00019.html (7,129 bytes)
9. Topband: Pacific DX Test - hard times at VK6VZ (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 06:47:02 +0800; A blanket of poor propagation and atmospheric noise, causing frustration and despondency, fell onto the VK6VZ QTH as soon as the Pacific DX Test commenced. With a steady S5 - S7 noise level and even; /archives//html/Topband/1999-07/msg00045.html (7,679 bytes)
10. Topband: VK9XX/VK9YY (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:11:12 +0800; For those of you who pursued VK9XX/VK9YY on 160m earlier this year, you might be interested to read Jerry WB9Z's account of the trip on: http://www.W9AZ.com Vy 73, Steve, VK6VZ -- FAQ on WWW: http://; /archives//html/Topband/1999-05/msg00012.html (6,482 bytes)
11. Topband: Birthday present from HC8 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:33:35 +0800; It was my birthday on May 26 (no. 44) and I said I would bring fish and chips home for my wife Deb and the kids and we would have this with a birthday cake before the kids went to bed. What with all; /archives//html/Topband/1999-05/msg00042.html (8,093 bytes)
12. Topband: Working into Africa from Eu/EL2WW (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 07:24:47 +0800; It was interesting to see the e-mail from Steve HA0DU asking whether Mark EL2WW has been active - over the last six weeks, Mark has been regularly heard in VK6 and was last worked on 19/4/99 at 2231Z; /archives//html/Topband/1999-04/msg00098.html (7,277 bytes)
13. Topband: 3B8/DL2HWA (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:09:08 +0800; 3B8/DL2HWA was heard at a solid RST 559 at 2244Z (just about Perth sunrise) on 25/04/99 on 1828, calling CQ. Unfortunately, I wasn't quite quick enough to catch him before he went QSY or QRT, but his; /archives//html/Topband/1999-04/msg00102.html (6,626 bytes)
14. TopBand: Lazy U for 160m (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 06:39:13 +0800; I was very interested to read the piece by W3EKT about his Lazy U antenna. Funnily enough, the antenna I use to work loads of DX on 160m is the very same sort of antenna he actually rejected for DX w; /archives//html/Topband/1999-03/msg00031.html (7,624 bytes)
15. TopBand: Top feed verticals? (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 06:27:14 +0800; Dear Vic, John Heys G3BDQ has done a lot of work with this kind of antenna - he used to run an inverted-L, which was earthed at the base of the vertical with lots of radials and fed via a horizontal; /archives//html/Topband/1999-03/msg00039.html (7,975 bytes)
16. TopBand: Good conditions return to the southern hemisphere (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:56:55 +0800; After a couple of weeks away on holiday, the band seemed in as bad shape as when I left - dead, dead and dead, despite FB propagation in the northern half of the globe. In the last two days, things h; /archives//html/Topband/1999-03/msg00185.html (7,620 bytes)
17. TopBand: VK9XX/TU2MA (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:34:57 +0800; After poor conditions since Saturday, propagation is picking up again down in the Indian Ocean. The gang at VK9XX were going well into Europe this morning at 2100Z or so, Txing on 1826.5 and listenin; /archives//html/Topband/1999-02/msg00045.html (6,787 bytes)
18. TopBand: VK9XX (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 07:25:54 +0800; I had a short QSO with the VK9XX gang last night on 160m - they are doing it very tough, with an S9 noise level. With the problems with the noise, if no signals can be heard on 160m (after much much; /archives//html/Topband/1999-02/msg00059.html (7,308 bytes)
19. TopBand: VK9XX/YY operating schedule (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:16:24 +0800; There have been a few queries about the VK9XX operating pattern on the reflector. Well, here it is, as explained to me. VK9XX is either on 160 or 80m right through the hours of darkness, operating 16; /archives//html/Topband/1999-02/msg00065.html (8,121 bytes)
20. TopBand: VK9XX QRT/VK9YY lives (almost) (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:22:22 +0800; VK9XX is now QRT and VK9YY should start up operation by sunrise on Sunday in the US. Same team, same frequencies and pattern of operation - but hopefully less electrical noise and QRN. The BCS on Coc; /archives//html/Topband/1999-02/msg00066.html (6,807 bytes)

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