Gday During the last 40 hours Ive been giving the band a bit of a workout from VK6. Prior to this, family and work commitments and heaps of unseasonable QRN has made spending time on the band before
Gday Over the last 20 years Ive been slowly working my way towards 40 zone WAZ on the topband 37 down and three to go zones 2, 12 and 13. Please, does anyone know if any lowbander is planning activit
Gday all As someone who has extensively used a digital down conversion/digital up conversion transceiver (original HPSDR) on the Topband, it is good to see this myth being debunked publicly as much a
The brick-wall sided constantly variable filtering provided by the fully digital HPSDR and its associated OpenHPSDR software and the way this filtering handled noise in comparison to the K3s crystal
None of the below has anything to do with overload from local transmitters. Or did I miss that part? Dear Tom Yes I think you did - but never mind. :) I've put the part of the post just below. For ab
Gday For those topbanders, who have medium wave stations nearby and are thinking about trying a DDC/DUC SDR, you may find the comments below from Phil VK6APH/VK6PH (in answer to a query on the Apache
Hi Jim Clearly in a large US city, there is going to be a whole larger degree of difficulty than here. Perth is still pretty much a small city in world terms, with a population of about 2 million. In
Hi Jim (Murray) Jim K9YC is absolutely right - I live in a similar situation to you and the problems have been markedly improved by getting the grounding and bonding to earth improved around the hous
Gday For those who are wondering where the VKs have gone on 160m, the answer is we have had high levels of QRN for the last two weeks- plus. Whenever I have turned on at sunset or during the evening,
G'day What has happened to the topband conditions the last couple of decades? As a topbander from 1969 (first as an SWL and then licenced as G3ZZD in February 1971, running 9W DC input to a 5763) I'd
Gday As a long-time supporter of the Stew Perry TBDC and donor of Royal Flying Doctor Service caps, it has been great fun reading the various responses to the Boring Amateur Radio Clubs innovation of
Gday Oops. I meant from Western Australia the time between the Spring and Autumn (in southern hemisphere terms) equinoxes is by far the best time to work into North America and Europe, i.e. during ou
Gday It has been interesting to read about the spotlight propagation being experienced by USA operators chasing VP8STI. In my experience the size of a spotlight can be very small 50km or less perhaps
Gday For those looking for insight into how the NCC-1 noise canceller works, Id suggest looking at the following two web pages: 1. http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php?topic=75951.0 This is a
Gday all Like Greg ZL3IX, I want to pay a tribute to Jo YC0LOW (SK), who obtained 160m DXCC no #1455 back in 2008. Until Jo became ill some several years back, he was actively on a daily basis on 160
G'day Decided time to check out the band before the Big Stew contest next weekend, as the words of the esteemed Lew W7EW about being prepared kept nagging in my brain. Last night at the Glen Forrest,
Gday all and Happy New Year Conditions have been great into Europe over the last few days, making me think LP QSOs into North America ought to be possible again after my sunrise (currently 2115Z). Us
Gday Thanks to all those in eastern USA who have been listening for my signals on the long path for the last five or six days it is much appreciated. Unfortunately Ive become ill in the last day or s
Gday Very sorry to hear of the passing of Robin VK6LK. The passion of Robin and his great friend Mike VK6HD for lowband DXing was an inspiration to me when first arriving in Western Australia in 1989
Gday One of the great myths about 160m is that low angle radiation is always needed to work DX on the topband. The other is that almost any kind of vertical antenna will always beat a relatively low