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81. TopBand: 1/8 wave radials (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 06:10:19 +0800; There has been some discussions lately that has included references to 1/8 wave length radials. For those of a technical frame of mind who would like to do some research on this, I would refer you to; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00109.html (7,326 bytes)
82. TopBand: Static on dipoles (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 06:27:05 +0800; As the Australian summer moves into its later stages, we get lots of trouble with static from thunderstorms, wind, etc. On a bad night, I can draw a spark a couple of inches long off the end of my in; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00128.html (7,004 bytes)
83. TopBand: Warning! Warning! Outbreak of QSX Disease! (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:49:29 +0800; At this time of the year, at the height of the 160m DX season, the QSX disease is at its worst. DX stations all over the globe QSX (listen) in other parts of the band (particularly in the JA window),; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00142.html (7,669 bytes)
84. TopBand: FT1000MP Rx Antenna Connections (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 06:13:48 +0800; With recent experiments using separate Rx antennas on 160m, my attention was drawn to the facilities on my FT1000MP for using/switching such an antenna. What I found was that the description of this; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00210.html (7,447 bytes)
85. TopBand: Barbecues, garage sales and the CQ 160 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 15:34:21 +0800; Strange conditions and a strange contest. This year, the CQ 160 had to be fitted around various Australia Day weekend activities - a street party, participation in a car boot sale and a typical Aussi; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00270.html (9,620 bytes)
86. TopBand: CQ 160 DX window (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:17:17 +0800; Just a few thoughts from someone who is a long way from anywhere else - close to Perth, the most isolated capital city in the world. I think the DX window in the contest is a great idea - it helped m; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00303.html (8,295 bytes)
87. TopBand: Folded unipole study (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:00:31 +0800; G'day from WA! A few weeks ago there was a message posted about a folded unipole study at http://www.dir.com/Nabpaper.htm Anybody got any ideas what has happened/how I can get to see the study? 73, S; /archives//html/Topband/1998-01/msg00324.html (6,902 bytes)
88. TopBand: Sentimental tale of a baby and the CQ WW CW (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 17:58:53 +0800; It was a funny kind of contest for me - and the 160m conditions in VK6 were even stranger. My wife Deb gave birth to our second child, Samuel Joseph, on the Thursday before CQ WW. This meant that any; /archives//html/Topband/1997-12/msg00031.html (9,040 bytes)
89. TopBand: Down Under Diary (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 05:26:23 +0800; While those good conditions have been happening in the northern half of the world, on the whole it has been somewhat noisy and dead down under on 160m since the CQ WW CW. Conditions during the ARRL 1; /archives//html/Topband/1997-12/msg00177.html (7,550 bytes)
90. TopBand: Down Under Diary - summer solstice (frustration) edition (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 06:23:36 +0800; Solstices are always interesting times of the year - pagan dancing, crop circles appearing and the whiff of the old magic. Fittingly, sometimes topband opens in a really twisted mystic way... This ye; /archives//html/Topband/1997-12/msg00260.html (7,798 bytes)
91. TopBand: LP USA from Zone 29 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 06:09:03 +0800; Band opened into eastern North America and Europe somewhat spectacularly last nite, but in patches. First in the log was VE1ZZ at 2114, peaking at 589. When Jack is this strong, sometimes signals go; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00036.html (7,108 bytes)
92. TopBand: slinky beverage - VK style? (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 07:06:14 +0800; Please, are there any VK 160m operators who have managed to get hold of Slinkys locally, and if so, where? The Toys R Us store in Perth says it doesn't keep them. There is nothing so frustrating as a; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00181.html (7,619 bytes)
93. TopBand: Slinky beverage - VK style (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 13:07:36 +0800; For those Australian 160m fans who would like to build a Slinky beverage, the following may be helpful. It seems that Slinky are sold in Australia in games rather than toy shops. I bought my Slinky O; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00292.html (7,117 bytes)
94. TopBand: 'Down Under' Diary (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 07:32:00 +0800; G'day from WA! So far, conditions here have been poorer for November than in the last couple of years, with European openings around sunrise and North American openings after sunset being noticeably; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00321.html (8,719 bytes)
95. TopBand: ATUs on 160m (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 20:32:01 +0800; Just some 'food for thought' for those out there using 160m dipoles fed with open wire so they can use the antennas on the other low bands. Until recently, I used a similar arrangement until I finall; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00333.html (8,006 bytes)
96. TopBand: Nightmare in VK6! (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 05:37:36 +0800; I had just got on the band about 10 minutes before my sunrise when I heard a station called 'QRL?' on 1826. The next thing I knew, the station identified as 5B4ADA - a new country - but was calling Q; /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00400.html (7,514 bytes)
97. TopBand: Long Path QSOs (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 05:49:17 +0800; I was very interested to see Earl, K6SE's e-mail about long path QSOs. Here in VK6 at the height of the northern hemisphere DX season, we get 'long path' openings into the eastern USA each year on a; /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00240.html (7,532 bytes)
98. TopBand: inverted-L versus dipole (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 06:08:40 +0800; G'day from West Australia! Conditions in the last week have been frustatingly poor, in particular to Europe. The one bright European spell came on 10/10/97 when GU3WHN was a solid RST559 on 1.828, ca; /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00252.html (9,532 bytes)
99. TopBand: Long Path 160m QSOs (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 06:22:40 +0800; A couple of corrections to my earlier posting on 160m long path QSOs from VK - this what happens when you write things too quickly without consulting your log book/atlas! The occcasion when I heard V; /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00253.html (7,188 bytes)
100. TopBand: Vertical vs horizontal (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.com.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 06:32:59 +0800; Dear Don, You make some interesting observations here, which I think for QTHs with relatively good soil conductivity, such as in the UK, hold good in particular. However, here in WA, on a green belt; /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00323.html (10,696 bytes)

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