- 101. Topband: Fw: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:01:24 -0400
- I would have to agree with Herb 100%, in fact, I believe in this past ARRL 160, Herb got me as "VE9??" and I sent AA AA (maybe I sent AA 3 times, I don't recall) and he came right back with VE9AA 5NN
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00146.html (8,746 bytes)
- 102. Re: Topband: DX window (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:36:23 -0400
- Why don't folks ever name names? (callsigns) Are we such a "PC" group of humans worldwide these days that we should not risk stepping on someones' toes dare we insult them or shame them into obeying
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00237.html (9,021 bytes)
- 103. Topband: Thanks for the Wood ! (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:41:03 -0400
- Plaque arrived today in the middle of a snowstorm. Looks very smart indeed. Thanks to Lew, Tree, The (not so) Boring Gang and of course Stew himself, may he RIP. dit dit, Mike VE9AA _________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00523.html (7,054 bytes)
- 104. Re: Topband: CQ160CW Exchange for VO1 & VO2? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:56:01 -0400
- Tree: Can you pse forward to the list? My msg's aren't making it. == To further muddy the waters, contest organizers (not just this contest) seem to sometimes think there are no VE1's in NB or PEI, w
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-01/msg00186.html (8,205 bytes)
- 105. Re: Topband: Modeling the proverbial "vertical on a beach" (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:10:45 -0300
- I can only provide anecdotal evidence. In July 1997 we did CY9AA and our 160m antenna turned out to be a 130' wire, suspended by a large helium/mylar balloon. We mounted the base in the rocks right a
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-08/msg00085.html (9,368 bytes)
- 106. Re: Topband: tool for install radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:11:23 -0400
- Jorge, The VE9 (NB) way of doing in-ground (and other) radials: I made a tool for installing radials in my VERY rocky soil and it likely took me less than an hour to get it up and running. I had my l
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00177.html (11,717 bytes)
- 107. Re: Topband: Unknown Pulse Signal Wiping out 1900-1925 kHz (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:16:46 -0400
- At about 30 mins past SS here in FN66 (s. central NB) it's about 20dB over 9, no QSB. I did listen about 1.5 hrs before SS and did not hear it. It's from about 1900-1930kHz easily. Unfortunately, no
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00191.html (8,823 bytes)
- 108. Re: Topband: That 1.9 MHz radar signal... (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:19:08 -0400
- We may be able to exclude Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or PEI as it isn't being heard on groundwave by ve9aa who is the middle of Nova Scotia. Correct me if I am wrong please. == OUCH ! Every Canadian
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00206.html (8,344 bytes)
- 109. Topband: K1N what time are they QRV on top? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 18:03:36 -0400
- OK, finally, Friday has arrived and although I have a new one on 14MHz from the car (on my way to work) , I don't yet have it on TOP. My house radio has been off since the SSB Sprint. Are they follow
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00279.html (7,329 bytes)
- 110. Re: Topband: K1N what time are they QRV on top? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 08:07:53 -0400
- Thanks everyone for your advice on times. I had not been paying attn. at all this week due to work & home responsibilities. I tried late last evening and although they were an honest S9 here, the p/u
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00298.html (9,792 bytes)
- 111. Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:39:46 -0400
- de VE9AA I know inverted L's have been hashed out quite a few times on this list, and I have gleaned some knowledge. At my previous QTH I had a 5/16th WL one which seemed to work tons better than my
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00771.html (8,723 bytes)
- 112. Re: Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 15:19:51 -0400
- 24 hours and even not one comment? What if I had a BOG for RX, buried, uninsulated radials and had worked K1N with it during my move into a Brave New World? Maybe I really should've said I was rentin
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00021.html (10,148 bytes)
- 113. Re: Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
- Author: <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:03:39 -0400
- Hi & Thanks Yuri. That's good info to know. I had wondered about that actually... I may be able to get the hz portion over to a far away tree, just slightly lower than the 35' peak of the first tree,
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00037.html (12,755 bytes)
- 114. Topband: Fair Contest? It's the STEW PERRY ! (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:55:53 -0300
- OK, Let's talk fair. For many years I was pretty much completely off HF (nevermind contesting) however I've only ever missed a few STEWS..why? Well, being a long time VHFer, I was amazed that an (ahe
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00127.html (8,517 bytes)
- 115. Re: Topband: VE1PZ (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:17:42 -0300
- VE1PZ is a good friend of mine based out of Pictou, NS. ( I say based as at times he's had different houses and cottages in the region) He's never operated remote that I know of. Doug is a stand up g
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00191.html (7,307 bytes)
- 116. Topband: ZS6BKW(G5RV) on 160m? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:57:18 -0300
- I might have a chance to operate from a portable location this summer for a contest or two but at the location they have no antennas, nor is there room for any huge vertical, inverted L, guys ropes e
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00203.html (8,669 bytes)
- 117. Re: Topband: ZS6BKW(G5RV) on 160m? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:12:11 -0300
- Marsh, Kevin, Jim, everyone This is great info. Hey, thanks guys,.////As I read these comments, I am now wondering if there is a magic length of coax, that attaches to the 40 of 450 ladder line that
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00209.html (13,753 bytes)
- 118. Topband: ZS6BKW (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:44:10 -0300
- Thanks very much Marsh. Obviously you have some serious antenna modeling skills and I do thank you for that second analysis. If I may indulge you for one last request (tweak) pse? If you could keep e
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00222.html (7,144 bytes)
- 119. Re: Topband: verticals by the sea (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:17:48 -0300
- Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE by the sea? Didn't I read inverted VEEs had a lot of vertical polarization? Reason I ask is I plan to do the IOTA contest on an Island in NB or NS and
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-04/msg00044.html (7,293 bytes)
- 120. Topband: Verticals on the beach (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 19:23:25 -0300
- I am quite enjoying this discussion, even though some of it is anecdotal and some is theoretical/mathematical. Are there any readers of this list, who, say, has a home (or did a portable op) whereby
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-04/msg00076.html (8,158 bytes)
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