- 1. Topband: DX, Radials and Noise (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger Parsons)
- Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 20:00:41 +0000
- This morning ZK1NCP was audible from 1100Z until after my sunrise with some periods of QSB. Also heard ZL3IX for about 30 minutes, but Greg couldn't hear me - not one ..--.. ! I think I agree with W1
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-11/msg00009.html (8,019 bytes)
- 2. Topband: ZK1QMA (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger Parsons)
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 13:33:33 +0000
- ZK1QMA was on 40 this morning with hardly any takers. He did an immediate QSY to 160 for me where he was 569 at about 30 minutes before my sunrise. However, he only stayed for a few minutes when he c
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-09/msg00021.html (6,521 bytes)
- 3. Topband: RF resistance of wire (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger Parsons)
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 01:22:38 +0000
- I have been reading the thread on rf resistance of solid vs stranded wires at hf. Quite some time ago I did some work on the design of coax cables (actually leaky feeders). The characteristics of cab
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-07/msg00080.html (7,646 bytes)
- 4. Topband: RF resistance of wire (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger Parsons)
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:42:41 +0000
- I don't know! The losses are certainly calculable as wires, but measurement would be extremely difficult. When I was involved with this the stranded conductors were centre cores of coaxial cables. I
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-07/msg00084.html (7,836 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Beverages, Lightning and Moose (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger Parsons)
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:14:10 -0000
- I am having a little trouble with lightning and moose spoiling my beverages and would appreciate some help! My beverages are several thousand feet from the shack, and have two 'nodes' each with a swi
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-05/msg00029.html (8,833 bytes)
- 6. Topband: 160m Conditions last night! (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:28:16
- In this neck of the woods the band was completely and utterly dead - even the static from the US East Coast snow storm was quite weak. A look at the Auroral Oval showed it to be well south of James B
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-03/msg00052.html (7,456 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Clicks (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:47:01
- I would like to apologise to anybody whose contacts and enjoyment of the band have been disrupted by my clicks. I thought I was being very smart by using the low level TX/RX connection to my IC-765 r
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-03/msg00053.html (8,073 bytes)
- 8. Topband: ant-field flooded (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:23:31
- I rather doubt whether Beverages would work well actually under water! I do know for sure that they work with no apparent difference when they are buried under feet of snow! Rumour has it that spring
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-03/msg00104.html (6,821 bytes)
- 9. Topband: Re: JAs this morning (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 01:53:30
- I am several hundred miles north of Brian, VY2MGY/3. I heard several JAs, none of them very strong, and on bearings rapidly changing between West, South West and North West. Of course, none of them c
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-01/msg00101.html (6,557 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Loop-family antenna notes (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:51:30
- I agree with Tom's comments. The only thing I would add is that, certainly up here in North East Ontario where I am greatly affected by the auroral oval, it takes a long time to determine whether a d
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-12/msg00003.html (7,877 bytes)
- 11. Topband: re: Auroral Zone (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:22:37 PST
- Interesting comments on the XZ signal. Yesterday morning he was varying between 449 and zero from about 1200 until I had to QRT at about 1230Z. This morning I could just detect scratchy traces betwee
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-01/msg00178.html (6,763 bytes)
- 12. Topband: VA3 not UA3 (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 17:14:05 PST
- I guess I should have corrected that bust at the time, but had to QRT! Conditions were most peculiar here this morning (in North Eastern Ontario). I (eventually) worked VK6HD and gave him a good repo
- /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00066.html (7,011 bytes)
- 13. TopBand: RE C21SX (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:02:57 PST
- I had the same experience as Bill, only worse! I heard him for a few minutes on Friday, but nothing at all on Saturday or Sunday, even while Ivan VE3DO was working him. Ivan is about 150 miles south
- /archives//html/Topband/1999-03/msg00043.html (6,540 bytes)
- 14. TopBand: Pacific DX this morning (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 06:05:29 PST
- Hi All Excellent conditions to the Pacific this morning. VK6HD, VK6VZ and 3D2DK were all 599 for considerable periods. NH0/JH4ADK was 449 up and down for about 15 minutes before my sunrise. Unfortuna
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-12/msg00339.html (7,290 bytes)
- 15. TopBand: Spurii (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:05:36 PDT
- Hi All I have just put up a couple of short (500') beverages as being all I can reasonably do before the snow flies. They seem to work well (quite beautifully on A35ZL!), but both pass under telephon
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-10/msg00052.html (7,373 bytes)
- 16. TopBand: Radials (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:53:54 PDT
- Hi All I really don't want to reopen the elevated -v- buried radials debate, but I am unsure as to how to proceed. I am just putting up a somewhat better vertical for 160. It is right next to a lanew
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-09/msg00079.html (7,221 bytes)
- 17. TopBand: FW2EH -MAGIC (score: 1)
- Author: ve3zi@hotmail.com (Roger P)
- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1998 07:01:49 PST
- It's 15 minutes before sunrise. You're tuning the receiver with one hand and drinking tea with the other. Suddenly, there is FW2EH calling CQ loud and clear. He signs, you call. Decision - how many t
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00031.html (7,195 bytes)
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