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1. Topband: strange band (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 07:06:58 +0800; A couple of years ago, Mike VK6HD lived about 25 - 30km away from me. On a fairly regular basis, there would be early mornings/evenings where one of us could hear signals the other couldn't, or one w; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00000.html (7,522 bytes)
2. Topband: 6W6/K3IPK (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 07:20:45 +0800; I have noticed that 6W6/K3IPK has been active around the 0400Z time slot and would be interested in trying to make a sked with him during March at around my sunrise (around 2215Z). If anyone can prov; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00001.html (6,227 bytes)
3. Topband: VP6BR activity (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 06:34:55 +0800; I wonder if anyone has heard or worked VP6BR since the CQ 160, or knows if there is likely to be any more 160m activity? Been looking in the hour prior to VP6 sunrise (around 1415Z) around the band,; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00062.html (6,926 bytes)
4. Topband: Getting the best out of your rx (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:19:13 +0800; It has been very interesting, reading the recent e-mails concerning the use of DSP, in particular on the FT1000MP, and prompted me to go back and experiment with not just the dsp but the basic rx set; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00090.html (9,762 bytes)
5. Topband: poor antenna, rich score (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 07:49:21 +0800; It has been nice to see Ivo 5B4ADA, Kele YU1AO/6 and Rys SP5EWY remarks about supposedly poor cloud-warming antennas. My 160m DXCC was worked using an inverted-U dipole for 160m at around 13 - 15m hi; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00097.html (8,258 bytes)
6. Topband: Magnetic storm (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 07:12:22 +0800; This morning (Sunday 13 Feb, from 2130Z) found a very very quiet 160m band, totally dead except for Werner HB9ATA, who was a solid 579 for about 30 minutes, and at about 15 minutes before sunrise, I; /archives//html/Topband/2000-02/msg00115.html (6,759 bytes)
7. Topband: Beverage now too short? (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 16:17:15 +0800; A couple of weeks ago, I received the bad news that my neighbour who lets me run a Beverage onto her land had decided to move house. This meant that the Beverage had got to go! Its last serious engag; /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00003.html (9,043 bytes)
8. Topband: Extraordinary conditions (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 06:37:08 +0800; Extraordinary conditions here in Glen Forrest, Western Australia on 160m today around sunrise. I came on 160m about half an hour before sunrise (2128Z) and found a few G signals around S4 - S6. I qui; /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00140.html (7,832 bytes)
9. Topband: LP North America opening from VK6 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:00:23 +0800; There were very interesting conditions on 22/1/2000 at around Perth sunrise time. At 2118Z, 15 minutes or so before my sunrise, Jack VE1ZZ replied to a CQ DX call with an amazing 599 plus signal - ac; /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00182.html (8,205 bytes)
10. Topband: Down Under Diary 9/12/99 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 07:52:16 +0800; Conditions here into the Northern hemisphere at sunrise have been simply awesome for the last five days, with signals as loud - or louder - than I have ever heard them. I don't think I can ever recal; /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00072.html (8,824 bytes)
11. Topband: Unterminated Beverages (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 06:08:03 +0800; Just a note to say that I find my unterminated 400' Beverage extremely useful as a 160m Rx antenna and have never bothered with a terminated Beverage. Over the last five days, the atmospheric noise h; /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00083.html (9,039 bytes)
12. Topband: VE1ZZ (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:10:58 +0800; The signal from Jack VE1ZZ is simply far the best and most consistent out of North America into VK6 (Perth area). Jack's signals on the SP (ie. at VK6 sunset) are consistent, but are not necessarily; /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00103.html (8,595 bytes)
13. Topband: EA8/G4CAZ (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:58:35 +0800; Conditions seemed much poorer at VK6 sunrise today than in the last week or so and in the 20 minutes period before sunrise, only two relatively weak signals - OK1AMB (559) and OE5KE (349, pkg 459) we; /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00108.html (7,271 bytes)
14. Topband: Down Under in the Stew 99 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:43:03 +0800; Stew Perry TBDC 99 was a real rollercoaster of a ride from VK6. A few hours before the contest, I was dragged away from clearing up the kid's Christmas preparations by a phone call from Mike VK6HD to; /archives//html/Topband/1999-12/msg00230.html (9,037 bytes)
15. Topband: Down Under Diary - CQ WW CW (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 09:28:46 +0800; Strange times - and strange conditions - in the 1999 CQ WW CW at VK6VZ. The first day of the CQ WW CW was my son Sam's 2nd birthday, so preparations were very limited and I have visitors from the UK,; /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00001.html (10,346 bytes)
16. Topband: Down Under Diary October/November 1999 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:13:23 +0800; The last two months have been something of a mixed bag with regard to 160m propagation and DX, with a few very good days and a lot of poor ones. Checking the band regularly has proved the key in orde; /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00073.html (9,657 bytes)
17. Topband: Hamgear PMIID Preselector (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:25:21 +0800; Looking for a little bit of extra RF gain for experimental RX antennas at VK6VZ, I recently bought an old 1970s vintage preselector at a local hamfest. This is a Hamgear PMIID Preselector, tunable fr; /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00145.html (7,103 bytes)
18. Topband: One-way conditions 23/11/99 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 07:18:30 +0800; occur at sunrise here in VK6. This morning (23/11/99) I started hearing Europeans from about 25 minutes before sunrise (the latter is currently about 2104Z at VK6VZ). Although signals were RST559 at; /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00146.html (7,587 bytes)
19. Topband: One-way conditions 23/11/99 (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:22:19 +0800; Dear Bob, Great to hear from you, as always. Boy, I wish I had your knowledge/wisdom in these matters. I actually forgot to mention one crucial thing - there was no actual peak of the signals as sunr; /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00161.html (8,988 bytes)
20. Topband: 160m CW warm-up for the CQ WW SSB/CQ WW CW (score: 1): Author: sire@omen.net.au (Steve Ireland); Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 06:48:56 +0800; Mike VK6HD and I are keen to hear from any stations being assembled in the Caribbean for the CQ WW SSB Contest who have topbanders in the crew who are interested in trying for a QSO at VK6 sunset (ar; /archives//html/Topband/1999-10/msg00034.html (7,408 bytes)

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