- 1. Topband: Digi Mode Spurious Issues (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:59:50 -0500
- W8JI said: <Collins got burned by this. They tried running a pure audio tone into the SSB transmitter of the early S line to generate CW.> .....as did KW with their KW2000 over here. Tom G3OLB ______
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00296.html (6,815 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Slick Contest Operation (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 07:38:16 -0500
- G4FKA: <Once upon a time, all QSOs probably sounded like that!> What do you mean 'Once upon a time'? Have you listened on 160 lately? Tom _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.con
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-01/msg00026.html (6,489 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Slick Contest Operation (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 12:13:30 -0500
- ......sorry, posted to wrong reflector! _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-01/msg00027.html (6,510 bytes)
- 4. Topband: BCB Interference (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:15:05 +0100
- Rather than use a filter capable of handling the transmit power, surely a better solution for the K3 would be to use a separate 160m receiving antenna, via a small filter on the BNC auxiliary antenna
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-09/msg00142.html (6,404 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Laurel & Hardy (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:25:00 +0100
- Frank, Interesting that in the 1930s you folk in the colonies called the thing an aerial and not an antenna! 73 Tom G3OLB _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_top
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-08/msg00066.html (6,278 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: 80-160M remote autotuner needed (Mike DeChristopher) (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:15:05 +0100
- Mike, I just cant figure out why you would use 807s in a remote tuner! 73, Tom G3OLB _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-07/msg00026.html (7,133 bytes)
- 7. Topband: 160 M Inverted 'L' (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 06:41:16 -0500
- Folks, You dont need expensive vacuum capacitors or bread slicers/toast racks to match your 160 metre L. I use a low pass L-network consisting of 0.95 microhenrys in series and 1600 pF in parallel wi
- /archives//html/Topband/2016-11/msg00052.html (6,859 bytes)
- 8. Topband: Jeff's Book (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:46:28 +0000
- Just to say I received my copy of Jeff's 'DXing on the edge' today, complete with 19 chapters, bought from 'Book Depository' via Amazon. Price including shipping was GBP 15.26. Now for some interesti
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-02/msg00042.html (6,402 bytes)
- 9. Topband: Conditions improving (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 05:10:42 -0500
- Really good to hear 160 conditions getting better by the day! Greg ZL3IX was peaking 569 running only 50 watts on long path at my sunrise today. Forget the digital modes and start bashing that key! 7
- /archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00295.html (6,247 bytes)
- 10. Topband: D10 Field Telephone Cable (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:13:14 -0500
- Vic/David looks like D10 field telephone cable may be readily available at: http://armyradio.com/800-Meters-DON-10-WD1-TT-D-10-Twisted-Pair-Telephone-Cable.html GBP 64.50 for 800 metres sound a prett
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00038.html (6,439 bytes)
- 11. Topband: 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Boucher" <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:25:48 -0500
- Just to say that I wholeheartedly endorse Rogers comments on repeat 160 metre contacts. We are not all certificate hunters and many are only too happy to rag-chew. In 58 years on top band, I have no
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00157.html (7,296 bytes)
- 12. Topband: 160 activity night (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 17:06:02 +0000
- Sorry guys, I thought I posted the following about a month ago. Must be a long delay echo on the 160 reflector! Tom G3OLB Just to say that I wholeheartedly endorse Roger's comments on repeat 160 metr
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00164.html (7,129 bytes)
- 13. Topband: Wednesday activity night (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:21:55 +0000
- Roger G3YRO conditions havent been all bad on 160 lately. ZL3IX and I have had 7 good long path QSOs in this month so far. 73, Tom G3OLB Sent from Mail for Windows 10 _________________ Topband Reflec
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00066.html (6,333 bytes)
- 14. Topband: Top band sloper resonance (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 19:50:48 -0400
- Gary KA1J, It struck me that maybe you originally cut your sloper a little longer so you could match it with a simple capacitor. My inverted L is resonant on its own, somewhere down in the 1.750 regi
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-08/msg00090.html (6,644 bytes)
- 15. Topband: Air wound coil (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:19:49 +0100
- Bob W7RH - you don't need expensive hard-to-find vacuum capacitors to match a quarter wave 'L' or 'T' on top band. I use cheap multilayer high voltage disc ceramics and these have been working perfec
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-09/msg00005.html (7,160 bytes)
- 16. Topband: Capacitive vs. Inductive Matching of Inverted 'L'/'T' (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 19:15:37 +0100
- I used to use a slightly shortened 'L' with a small inductor at the base until I was told by LA5HE that he could hear me on 80 as well as 160! Using capacitor matching forms a low pass network which
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-09/msg00023.html (6,921 bytes)
- 17. Topband: Topband conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:35:56 +0100
- A couple of hours this morning on 160 CW yielded FR4NT, VE6WZ and ZL3IX as well as some other old friends, so considering the high static levels, conditions are pretty good! 73, Tom G3OLB ___________
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-09/msg00155.html (6,302 bytes)
- 18. Topband: 160m Parasitic array (VE6WZ_Steve) (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:25:57 +0000
- Fascinating presentation Steve, thank you. Tom G3OLB _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-10/msg00235.html (6,301 bytes)
- 19. Topband: Poor conditions in 2018?? (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:04:11 +0000
- I have to disagree with Steve VK6VZ and Dave W0FLS about conditions so far this season on topband. Although talking about different paths and times, regular daily long path skeds between myself with
- /archives//html/Topband/2018-11/msg00071.html (7,219 bytes)
- 20. Topband: 160 conditions (score: 1)
- Author: Tom Boucher <tomg3olb@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:25:50 +0000
- Outstanding sunrise conditions at 0800 today on top band. FM5BH on 1818 KHz S9+. ZL3IX on 1826.5 long path peaking S8/9 on my meter. RBN skimmers showing excellent path to USA but very little other a
- /archives//html/Topband/2019-01/msg00027.html (6,357 bytes)
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