- 1. Re: Topband: antenna pattern (score: 1)
- Author: Jack/AE7DX <vhfplus@bmg50.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:38:26 -0800
- For those on the list interested... I will not be on Friday night/Saturday morning *but* I have been given a 9-foot diameter latex baloon and suitable woven stainless-steel wire so that I can get a 1
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00006.html (7,372 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: RM 11305/11306 (score: 1)
- Author: Jack/AE7DX <vhfplus@bmg50.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:35:13 -0800
- Actually, you might extend that to 28.150MHz...I've heard 'em well into the 10-meter CW band. I've been in broadcasting for the better part of 37 years and the concept of the FCC doing anything sensi
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00143.html (8,666 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Helical vertical (score: 1)
- Author: Jack/NA7RF <vhfplus@bmg50.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:34:11 -0700
- FWIW...I use both the fiberglass and aluminum surplus cammo supports and while the fiberglass poles seem very rigid individually they tend to flex quite a lot when telescoped together, even at the 32
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00102.html (8,125 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Beverage question (score: 1)
- Author: Jack/NA7RF <vhfplus@bmg50.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:33:53 -0700
- Good day, all: I am putting up at least two short (290 foot) Beverage antennas and have a question about orientation... One will be for JA/South America at 300/120 degrees, which is not a problem. Th
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00063.html (9,138 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: Re "good old days" (score: 1)
- Author: Jack/W6NF <vhfplus@bmg50.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:50:45 -0700
- Yeah, the AM's are still there, but the concept of a clear channel, or even a regional channel, is long gone. For example, in the 50's and early 60's folks here in northern Nevada could listen to WBB
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-07/msg00045.html (8,181 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Phased Verticals (score: 1)
- Author: vhfplus@bmg50.com
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:09:33 -0800 (PST)
- Please share any responses, Clive! I have a 65-foot, top-loaded (tee-wire), vertical on 160 and a 65-foot vertical on 80 which is 200-feet away. I have been considering the possibility of using this
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00041.html (7,637 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: Improving the Fabulous CQ 160 Contest (score: 1)
- Author: vhfplus@bmg50.com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:11:45 -0800 (PST)
- How do you rationalize that, Herb? Grid squares would equalize the availability of mults (ignoring the argument that grids are smaller the further you go north/south of the equator) and make the con
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00050.html (9,138 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: CQ 160 weird ideas (score: 1)
- Author: vhfplus@bmg50.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:32:04 -0800 (PST)
- As a relative newcomer to 160 contesting I have been astonished and disappointed at the number of well-known calls I have heard running in the window over the past 3 years. I've never worked EU on t
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00156.html (7,815 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: TB Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: vhfplus@bmg50.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:47:53 -0800 (PST)
- <snip> Conditions must be good, given that I was able to copy SM5EDX last night for an extended period. No joy from Nevada, though, trying to work thru fellows like George ;>) My recently erected K9
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00219.html (7,093 bytes)
- 10. Topband: TB Conditions (score: 1)
- Author: vhfplus@bmg50.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:22:07 -0800 (PST)
- Conditions were exceptional tonight...more EU stations heard here than ever before and, after a couple of hours of calling various stations with nothing but frustration, OG2P peaked at an honest 569
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-01/msg00231.html (7,222 bytes)
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