- 41. Re: Topband: fyi 1820 harmonic (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:08:29 -0800 (PST)
- I am certainly not hearing it here this morning so it seems that they have fixed it. Good job Jon. Season's Greetings to all. 73 Roger VE3ZI _______________________________________________ UR RST IS
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-12/msg00542.html (6,762 bytes)
- 42. Re: Topband: Hi-Pass filter for 160 to reject BC Band (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 08:36:52 -0800 (PST)
- Hi Eddy You are correct, but obviously this is not the best approach for multiple broadcast stations. When I first built my remote station there was a high power AM station with an 8 element array be
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-01/msg00136.html (8,754 bytes)
- 43. Topband: Spurious Signal on 1810.8 (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 04:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
- For some while I have been hearing a strong spurious signal on about 1810.8 kHz. I thought it was a local SMPS or similar until I started trying to find it. It is not local to me it - I can hear it o
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00031.html (7,078 bytes)
- 44. Topband: Spurious Signal on 1810.8 (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2012 08:27:31 -0700 (PDT)
- As has been pointed out, I did indeed mean south EAST of me! Interesting that it was not just me that thought it must be local. I can't imagine that it is anything other than a misbehaving transmitte
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-10/msg00045.html (7,096 bytes)
- 45. Topband: DX WINDOW (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 05:22:14 -0800 (PST)
- The DX window (most unfortunately) does not exist for normal operation. It does however exist for the ARRL 160m contest: "6. Miscellaneous: 6.1. The segment 1.830 to 1.835 should be used for intercon
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00005.html (6,782 bytes)
- 46. Topband: Fw: Short Bogs (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:01:27 -0800 (PST)
- Tom was not referring to the sheathing on a cable but to the velocity factor of coax. Not the same thing at all. It is well established that covering a cable with a dielectric will change its electri
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00618.html (6,690 bytes)
- 47. Topband: G3FPQ SK (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:15:39 -0800 (PST)
- G3FPQ, David Courtier-Dutton, passed away on Sunday February 3rd. He was 79. Roger VE3ZI _________________ Topband Reflector
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-02/msg00078.html (6,586 bytes)
- 48. Topband: Fw: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â?" the 1921 Trans (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:08:10 -0800 (PST)
- "Are T-tops ever used in NA for commercial BCB stations? Tim N3QE" The CBC still have a number of 40W AM stations serving small isolated communities. Those stations use inverted L antennas - which ar
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-02/msg00167.html (7,517 bytes)
- 49. Topband: CABLE TV HARDLINE (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:59:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Mike - I suspect that none of the following will apply to you but FWIW: I have had some problems with joints in very long runs (>2000') of hardline - using the 'proper' CATV connectors. The hardline
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-04/msg00009.html (7,250 bytes)
- 50. Topband: YB0ARA/9 (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 18:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Quite shortly after I moved to Canada, on 31 January 1998 to be precise, I worked YB0ARA/9 on 160m. I didn't realise initially just how lucky I was - I have never heard another YB station since despi
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-05/msg00000.html (6,917 bytes)
- 51. Topband: YB0ARA/9 (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 13:45:31 -0700 (PDT)
- I would like to place on record my gratitude to Art, N2AU, for sending QSLs to N0XA, W1FV and myself for 160m contacts made with YB0ARA/9 some 15 years ago. I hope that Art will not mind my mentionin
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-05/msg00086.html (7,651 bytes)
- 52. Re: Topband: Tree losses.... (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
- I just did a small and inelegant piece of modelling with EZNEC. I took a wire 128' vertical, and it showed a gain of about 1.7dBi over a particular ground. Keeping everything else the same, I introdu
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-08/msg00097.html (8,773 bytes)
- 53. Re: Topband: Verifying integrity of 75 ohm coax. (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:34:01 -0800 (PST)
- "Dielectric grease has been used to preserve electrical connections in low pressure connections and high pressure connections at least since the 1960's or early 1970's." Possibly even earlier than th
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-11/msg00318.html (9,102 bytes)
- 54. Re: Topband: Verifying integrity of 75 ohm coax., (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:23:31 -0800 (PST)
- FWIW, the silicone grease that I have used more recently has been Dow Corning MS4. That is specifically described by them as being a lubricant suitable for wiping contacts, as well as multiple other
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-11/msg00347.html (7,063 bytes)
- 55. Re: Topband: DX Window (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 06:55:29 -0800 (PST)
- I agree with the remarks made by others regarding the DX window in the ARRL contest. I have been more concerned for many years about the various phone contests which take place on 160m. During those
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00099.html (9,724 bytes)
- 56. Re: Topband: DX Window (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:45:27 -0800 (PST)
- "The issue I believe is that many peoples 160 antennas are limited in frequency breadth. There is really just one SSB contest." Many 80m antennas will not cover both the CW and phone parts of that ba
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-12/msg00102.html (8,435 bytes)
- 57. Re: Topband: Contest in progress - few signals (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:25:00 -0800 (PST)
- This doesn't apply to the contest this past weekend, but each year in CQWW I am very grateful to the Zone 2 VE who answers my call even though he will get no points for the contact. 73 Roger VE3ZI __
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-02/msg00313.html (8,321 bytes)
- 58. Re: Topband: Teflon Tubing (score: 1)
- Author: Roger Parsons <ve3zi@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 07:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Just as a matter of interest, I have purchased teflon tubing several times in the past from Active Surplus on Queen St in Toronto. Not been there for a while so I don't know their current stock posit
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-03/msg00174.html (7,524 bytes)
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