- 1. TopBand: High Input Intercept SMD Devices (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 15:45:59 +0000
- Tom, I hope you meant 20 db gain. I'm not sure a preamp with a noise figure of 20 DB (at 1.8 mhz) is wise. What is the noise figure on 160 for the typical receiver? Probably less than that. Ambient n
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00108.html (7,806 bytes)
- 2. TopBand: KH3 (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 05:42:26 +0000
- Someone mentioned that the KH3 boys will go QRT at 0800Z tonight. 73, Dave - W5UN w5un@wt.net homepage: http://web.wt.net/~w5un phone: (281)331-4200 9102 Kings Drive Manvel, TX 77578 -- FAQ on WWW: h
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00226.html (6,734 bytes)
- 3. TopBand: Texas Gulf Coast Report (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 15:39:23 +0000
- I see all the great openings being posted. Here near the Texas Gulf Coast it was line noise and no dx signals, even DF2PY was pitifully weak. I did hear all you calling the likes of A45ZN, TF3, etc.,
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-12/msg00150.html (7,013 bytes)
- 4. TopBand: 160 One way Propagation (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:04:11 +0000
- I believe 2130Z is right at sunrise in VK6 73, Dave - W5UN w5un@wt.net homepage: http://web.wt.net/~w5un phone: (281)331-4200 9102 Kings Drive Manvel, TX 77578 -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.co
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00057.html (7,695 bytes)
- 5. TopBand: Condx (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:54:30 +0000
- I see all the GREAT CONDITIONS being posted this morning for last night. Well it sure wasn't that way here near the Texas gulf coast. The only off continent DX station I heard all evening was EM1HO.
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00303.html (7,638 bytes)
- 6. TopBand: VK9LX (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:31:06 +0000
- VK9LX started coming through here at 0830Z on 1821.8 mhz after QSYing from 7 mhz. He began by working JA's, and then listened briefly for W's. He worked me at 0930Z, and then worked a few W7's. Very
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-11/msg00343.html (7,835 bytes)
- 7. TopBand: K9AY receiving antenna (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 04:58:52 -0100
- I have seen no comments regarding K9AY's terminated loop receiving antenna, described on page 43 of the September 1997 issue of QST. Has anyone built this antenna? If so what are your impressions and
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00002.html (6,842 bytes)
- 8. TopBand: regarding condx (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 05:11:40 -0100
- Sunday night local time, I could hear the west coast gang having a field day with Europe. Absolutely nothing heard here near the Texas gulf coast. on top-band (except the usual QRN). It seems a more
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00080.html (7,113 bytes)
- 9. TopBand: BELDEN 9913 vs RG-213 (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:20:26 -0100
- Beware of 9913, as it can get water inside, as so many have sadly found in the 2 meter eme group. Texas Towers in Plano, TX (and others, I'm sure) has a nice alternative coax which does not have this
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-10/msg00128.html (7,928 bytes)
- 10. TopBand: ZK1XXP (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:28:03 +0000
- I worked ZK1XXP (I'm in Manvel, south of Houston) at 1225Z, on 1.822 mhz. This was shortly after my sunrise. They were answering calls up 2 to 3 khz. I was surprised that their signal strength was be
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-09/msg00241.html (7,667 bytes)
- 11. TopBand: K7K (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David Blaschke)
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:32:01 -0100
- Can someone help me remember K7K's home page address. 73, Dave - W5UN w5un@wt.net homepage: http://web.wt.net/~w5un phone: (281)331-4200 9102 Kings Drive Manvel, TX 77578 - -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.
- /archives//html/Topband/1997-09/msg00343.html (7,119 bytes)
- 12. TopBand: Beverage Help (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David R. Blaschke)
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:42:39 +0000
- Jim, this sounds like a classic case of receiver front-end intermod overload. It could be from that 10 KW station. To test this theory, place a 10 or 20 db attenuator between your receiver input and
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-12/msg00045.html (9,369 bytes)
- 13. No subject (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David R. Blaschke)
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 05:19:08 +0000
- I don't usually submit here unless it is something quite useful, but I will make an exception just this once. Tonite on 160 during a 5 minute span I observed N5KO/HC8 work the following stations - W4
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-11/msg00304.html (7,689 bytes)
- 14. TopBand: M1M (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David R. Blaschke)
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:31:36 +0100
- Can anyone help me with QSL route to M1M? Worked last night on 1831 at 0449Z. 73, Dave - W5UN Home Page at: http://web.wt.net/~w5un -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/topband.html Submissions:
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-10/msg00359.html (6,562 bytes)
- 15. TopBand: M1M (score: 1)
- Author: w5un@wt.net (David R. Blaschke)
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:51:18 +0100
- Can anyone help me with QSL route to M1M? Worked last night on 1831 at 0449Z. 73, Dave - W5UN Home Page at: http://web.wt.net/~w5un -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/topband.html Submissions:
- /archives//html/Topband/1996-10/msg00363.html (6,566 bytes)
- 16. Topband: Top Band DXing Long Ago (score: 1)
- Author: W5UN <w5un@wt.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:39:43 -0500
- I am reading with interest, all the comments about 160 DX nostalgia. My first experience was listening to a couple of local Hams running AM on my crystal set in the late 1940's as a young teenager. Y
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-01/msg00215.html (6,920 bytes)
- 17. Topband: A61AJ, etc. (score: 1)
- Author: W5UN <w5un@wt.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:44:32 -0500
- Best conditions I've heard this season. A61AJ was 589 in here for over an hour on 1.824 (a new one for me). I had a clue it was going to be one of those evenings when I5JVA & RA6AX was booming in her
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-02/msg00027.html (6,441 bytes)
- 18. Topband: WOW (score: 1)
- Author: W5UN <w5un@wt.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:17:27 -0500
- What an opening to Western Europe we had tonight here in Texas from 0500 to 0630 UTC last night. Twenty stations in ten countries in the log here. Best I've heard this season. 73, Dave - W5UN w5un@wt
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00000.html (5,859 bytes)
- 19. Topband: JY9QJ (score: 1)
- Author: W5UN <w5un@wt.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 04:28:53 +0000
- What a thrill to work JY9QJ on 160 tonight at 0344 UTC, then to immediately receive an email from him thanking me for his first Texas QSO on top band. Wow. Made my day; tnx George. 73, Dave - W5UN w5
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00189.html (6,708 bytes)
- 20. Topband: 3B9C in Texas (score: 1)
- Author: W5UN <w5un@wt.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:09:45 +0000
- Conditions on the low bands were amazingly excellent last evening here between 3B9 and northeast Texas. It began with my QSO with 3B9C on 7 mHz at 0022 UTC, followed by one on 3.5 mHz at 0033 UTC, an
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00227.html (6,620 bytes)
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