- 101. TopBand: DX still happens (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:34:59 +0000
- On 5/29 QSOs ZL2REX, ZL2JR, VK3ZL, VK2IO, VK3IO Others active 9M6AAT?? on 1827 at 1043Z. Propagation continues day after day into VK/ZL, with long openings that cover the whole period I'm on the air.
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-05/msg00092.html (6,866 bytes)
- 102. TopBand: EWEs (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 08:11:40 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> I agree with him, it worked that way for me...and it worked that way for W8LRL..... and about a dozen others who answered a poll I took a year or so ago. Not necessarily.
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00004.html (10,911 bytes)
- 103. TopBand: EWEs (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 08:11:40 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Pete, I've had many Beverages in marsh land (VERY wet rich deep black dirt, 30 mS/ m) and very poor dirt, and they worked the same as over poor dirt near as I could te
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00005.html (8,037 bytes)
- 104. TopBand: EWEs (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 10:01:44 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Earl, I appreciate your comments. I just wanted to point out Eric was dead on about a few things, at least from what I observed here and others report. Yes. One is bas
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00011.html (11,985 bytes)
- 105. TopBand: EWEs (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:33:17 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Earl, The EWE is easily and correctly analyzed as two short verticals. The elements are 180 out of phase. The phase delay is 41 degrees plus the 180 degree inversion.
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00022.html (9,232 bytes)
- 106. TopBand: H40AA on the two Low Bands (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 07:55:17 +0000
- Hopefully they will also move up away from the QRM caused by 1823 SSB signals every morning. 1824 is a very poor frequency choice in the Southern USA for sunrise DX. 73, Tom W8JI w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00038.html (7,400 bytes)
- 107. TopBand: 3D2 callsign switching this AM on 1828 (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 06:32:56 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Jeff, Every time I heard him ID he was WC, but I didn't listen steadily. Last week about a dozen people worked him and called him CB when he was clearly signing WC at
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00054.html (7,675 bytes)
- 108. TopBand: CW segment (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:04:19 +0000
- I think it's about time we all got together and asked for a CW segment. That would at least eliminate the SSB ops who QRM DX. Did anything ever happen out of the last push? I asked the SE director, a
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00062.html (7,211 bytes)
- 109. TopBand: 160m Beverage transformer core material? (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 12:06:01 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Rick, This has been covered before, but let me briefly repeat some important points. What you want is a core material with an ui (permeability) that has the highest po
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00091.html (8,784 bytes)
- 110. TopBand: High Input Intercept SMD Devices (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:20:53 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Peter, I'd be careful using MMIC's, since the intercept ratings can sometimes be misleading. I have to use MMIC's almost monthly in new designs, and they are pretty po
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00103.html (8,727 bytes)
- 111. FW: TopBand: High input intercept devices (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 06:08:20 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Mike, Ulric published the details in RF Design magazine back in the early 70's. VK5KL and myself mailed some preamps back and forth using that design. I used LT-1001 g
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00122.html (8,279 bytes)
- 112. TopBand: H40AA (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:04:37 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Yes, and tonite--when they don't or can't try-- there isn't a single static crash and the VK broadcast signal on 2310 is the strongest in a week! Murphy's law of DXing. 7
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00134.html (7,584 bytes)
- 113. TopBand: Umbrella Antenna (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:27:33 +0000
- The umbrella antenna does not eliminate the need for ground systems, as Earl points out. It's also important to remember when the element to element spacing is less than 1/4 wl, the efficiency of an
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00192.html (7,492 bytes)
- 114. TopBand: FO0FR (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:49:55 +0000
- What a great signal, no matter what island he is on! FO0FR was 579 at 0930, long before the sunrise peak. 73, Tom W8JI w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/topband.html Submis
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00219.html (6,659 bytes)
- 115. TopBand: Re: [TowerTalk] Chokes on Dipoles (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 21:27:51 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Lee, I use chokes because they prevent the feedline from arcing over to the tower legs or other cables, as well as the more common reasons. I had two experiences where
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-04/msg00262.html (8,132 bytes)
- 116. TopBand: QRM on 1910 (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 21:17:01 +0000
- I've been hearing a rough sounding carrier on 1910 with bassy modulation. It's even bothering the 3's that rag chew on 1910 in PA. Tonight I determined it to be an AM radio station operating on 1560
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00019.html (6,952 bytes)
- 117. TopBand: 1910 QRM station ID'ed (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 07:58:22 +0000
- Thanks for the help. The station causing the QRM on 1910 is WGUN in Tampa Bay. They simulcast on SEVERAL frequencies (including 1560) and so I have no idea which transmitter has the spur. I called WG
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00031.html (6,687 bytes)
- 118. TopBand: BCB IMD and harmonics, and mobile Dx (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 18:14:13 +0000
- John WD4JRA pointed out I posted WGUN when it is really WGUL. There were too many responses to e-mail a reply (about 40 last count). Thanks to all for all the help, it was greatly appreciated. The BC
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00041.html (7,733 bytes)
- 119. TopBand: Beverages close to xmt (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 04:24:48 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> I agree with you Merv. It certainly is influenced. A spirited debate about antenna performance when one wire is stuck randomly in the near field of other large wires (or
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00050.html (8,764 bytes)
- 120. TopBand: Elevated GP vs. Vertical Antennas (score: 1)
- Author: w8ji.tom@MCIONE.com (Tom Rauch)
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 10:39:44 +0000
- To: <topband@contesting.com> Hi Tom, Gee, this sure spread to lot's of groups! While that is a novel and simple feed method, and very creative, users should be aware of some potential problems (just
- /archives//html/Topband/1998-03/msg00070.html (11,704 bytes)
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