- 1. Re: Topband: Totally Deaf (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:45:29 -0500
- SNIP.......... I suppose I should just quit trying to work through the ever strong Equatorial noise on 160M and work the easy bands instead. It's a lot less strain on my ears, and I don't have to sta
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00092.html (7,494 bytes)
- 2. Topband: HA-10 warrior (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:22:29 -0500
- Good afternoon all: Does anyone have the mod info for putting the Heathkit HA-10 Warrior on 160? I have searched the internet and found reference to the page, but it apparently is no longer available
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00138.html (6,466 bytes)
- 3. Topband: HA-10 Got it! (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:27:55 -0500
- Good Morning All: Call off the dogs! Thanks to Roy Morgan I was able to find a site where old info is stored and retrieved the article. Many thanks to all who offered suggestions. Maybe I can help my
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00144.html (6,457 bytes)
- 4. Topband: HA-10 on 160 (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:54:49 -0500
- Several have sent requests for the location of the article on converting the HA-10 for 160, so here it is for others. The site is called The Wayback Machine, and it can be found at: http://www.archiv
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-09/msg00147.html (7,588 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Radials Again (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:41:52 -0500
- While searching the Topband archives for information on radials I came across a very interesting bit of information submitted in October 1996 by W1FV. This information references a paper by Brown, Le
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00013.html (7,800 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Radials again (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:13:40 -0500
- Thanks to all who responded to this inquiry. It appears that 64 is a good place to start given the limited space to put them. That will eat up most of that 2000 feet of wire. Then, on to a RX antenna
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00018.html (7,265 bytes)
- 7. Topband: Radial length (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:48:11 -0500
- While reading all of the references that many of you kindly provided, a recurring theme kept popping up; that being that a very small number of very long radials essentially are ineffective. However,
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00023.html (7,128 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Radials Again (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:18:20 -0500
- http://members.cox.net/w5uc/ I have not seen any comments about ground screens...I have been using a screen of chicken wire around the base of my antenna for several years...The only emperical data o
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00029.html (8,763 bytes)
- 9. Topband: Radials, Noise, & Water (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:38:45 -0500
- Good Morning All: It has been as dry as a chip here in East Texas for weeks, so yesterday afternoon I decided that maybe it would be worthwhile to set the sprinkler to cover as much of the area & rad
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00071.html (6,948 bytes)
- 10. Topband: KH6CC and other DX (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:22:48 -0500
- Good Morning All: Condx were good this AM. KL7J was gang busters in Em21. Tnx new one on 160. Hrd W5UN (about 145 driving miles from me) wkg sone VK's, but I could not hear them. More work to do. Wkd
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00076.html (7,034 bytes)
- 11. Topband: Receiving Loops (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:52:12 -0500
- Good Afternoon All: At last the radials are down and it is time to put up a receiving antenna. As is the case for most city dwellers, some compromises must be made. Therefore, let me ask: Has anyone
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00090.html (6,586 bytes)
- 12. Topband: K9AY Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:08:33 -0500
- Many thanks to all who sent comments on the K9AY proximity question. Much good information. I'm waiting for the toroids to arrive from Amidon, and I will be off & running. I feel like a kid awaiting
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00098.html (6,870 bytes)
- 13. Topband: (no subject) (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:41:04 -0500
- "An interesting -- and very easy to overlook! -- reference in ON4UN's latest lowband bible in the matter of ground radials... Specifically, wire laid atop the ground may be considered to have a velo
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00100.html (7,214 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: Tee Verticals (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:27:50 -0500
- Amen. Last fall I decided to rework my radial system. Here on this small city lot it's difficult, and nice long, straight, 1/4 wl radials are out of the question. I put down 16 thirty foot radials.
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00135.html (8,372 bytes)
- 15. Topband: K9AY Rcv Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:27:59 -0500
- Good Evening All: Today I finally completed construction on a K9AY receiving array. After listening for a while this evening, I determined that a signal has to be in the S9 to 20 over range to be abl
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00140.html (7,825 bytes)
- 16. Topband: K9AY Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:32:23 -0500
- I think I may have caused some confusion about what I am hearing on my deaf K9AY array. I get VERY little signal, but LOTS of noise. The noise input to the rcvr is lower than that from my Inv L, but
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00143.html (7,207 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: K9AY Array (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:12:11 -0500
- The signal from WWV was great last night on the Inv L, but couldn't hear them at all on the K9AY, although the noise from the array is WELL above the noise floor of the rcvr. OOPs, I should have said
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00145.html (7,720 bytes)
- 18. Topband: RFC's (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:52:43 -0500
- After being so overjoyed that I had the K9AY system working I woke up yesterday to find out that it didn't work. Recall that I put a 2.5 mH RFC in place of the 100 uH choke called for by K9AY in his
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-10/msg00167.html (7,413 bytes)
- 19. Topband: Noisy (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH) Watson" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:27:34 -0600
- Good Morning all: Both last evening and this morning(Wed PM, Thurs AM) 160 was terribly noisy, and the K9AY type antenna was totally ineffective. It sounded like lightning static. Was this a general
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00065.html (6,837 bytes)
- 20. Topband: 160 Wake-up (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH" <w5uc@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:48:09 -0600
- Shazam! Did 160 ever wake up this weekend! With 125 watts I worked Greece, Italy, Ireland, and two JA's. All except the JA's were new countries. I was, and still am, suspicious of the SV(SV3RF). He w
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-11/msg00091.html (6,463 bytes)
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