- 1. Topband: salt the ground? (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:07:31 -0400
- As a 9 yr old SWL in 1959, I watered my salted ground rod every afternoon when I arived home from school. Sure helped the old Philco receive the Chicago PD down near 160 mtrs, way down here in Dixie.
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00096.html (8,801 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Conditions on 160m last night (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 17:01:59 -0500
- In the first night of the CQ SSB contest I have worked 28 different countries with the majority of them European. On the other hand, my qso totals overall are poor versus last year and ver! appear to
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00149.html (8,466 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Conditions on 160m last night (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 19:11:40 -0500
- who Hi Milt-- I think one reason you didn't hear many CW sigs last night and probably tonight is because a lot of us stayed off the band so as to not QRM the SSB DX ops xmiting down there in the cont
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-02/msg00155.html (8,262 bytes)
- 4. Topband: VP8THU (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:37:49 -0500
- Hello George es all -- Same info repeated several times today by 17m CW op. I'm sure he meant "at all", but miracles have been known to happen. hi 73 es CUL, John WA4TT
- /archives//html/Topband/2002-01/msg00156.html (6,904 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Bnd Pln- my solution! (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:21:11 -0400
- I'm not a contester, but for over 40 yrs on the ham bands I've spent many a contest weekend hunting friends and others whose callsigns were familiar,to give them points on many bands. Also, I'm not a
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-10/msg00152.html (7,673 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Last Ditch (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:52:11 -0400
- Topband friends-- Tom is very generous with his comparison between my Inv L and his 4 Sq, but it did seem to work much better than I expected. With 50 1/4 WL radials it showed negligible changes betw
- /archives//html/Topband/2001-08/msg00056.html (7,157 bytes)
- 7. Topband: VP6BR (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:48:52 -0400
- Dennis-- reports are -- TopBand Ant's down and he's leaving for home tommorrow. No more 160M work. Sri es 73 John WA4TT -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/topband.html Submissions: topband@cont
- /archives//html/Topband/2000-04/msg00047.html (7,002 bytes)
- 8. Topband: Prop-- Alert (score: 1)
- Author: wa4tt@nlamerica.com (John Vickers)
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:34:02 -0500
- This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_000A_01BF32DE.2E06F680 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tried to send this an h
- /archives//html/Topband/1999-11/msg00116.html (6,783 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: Aurora Info (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:51:07 -0500
- Lots of links at this site Javier. www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/ 73, John WA4TT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00025.html (7,440 bytes)
- 10. Re: Topband: Aurora Info (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:57:01 -0500
- This is the link I should've sent Javier, sorry.http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html/ 73 John/TT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://list
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00027.html (7,467 bytes)
- 11. Re: Topband: hurray (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:41:39 -0400
- Tom, Don't spend too much time on it -- just was that type of propagation. Tx ant and low 80 mtr dipole were the best here last night. Used the beverages very little. -- WA4TT _______________________
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00286.html (7,423 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: Genius Loci (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:54:29 -0500
- Hi steve, Sure would've been nice to have Email in those days, much less a Dx cluster. I spent months in the early 60's sending post cards to Mr Stew for skeds until I finally worked him. My rig was
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00114.html (8,242 bytes)
- 13. Re: Topband: Stew Perry and logging (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:25:51 -0500
- Just a precaution, if anyones not familiar with the Stew rules, spotting help is disallowed. Would be a shame to operate the test and find it out later. Good luck to all-- especially that OM up the
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00221.html (7,469 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: Beverage above chain link fence (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:58:33 -0500
- Ken, Several yrs ago I had a 1000 ft Bev suspended (2 ft) above a 4 wire electric fence. The fence was used to cut of a pasture and was not energized all the time. It was pointed at S. Europe and wor
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00397.html (8,410 bytes)
- 15. Re: Topband: Beverage Installation Question. (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:39:44 -0400
- If not for the brush, mine would be on the ground ! I use insulated wire and route it over limbs, hang it with small cord under limbs etc. I do keep them straight and at a fairly uniform heighth. If
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-08/msg00084.html (8,324 bytes)
- 16. Topband: DBGrid (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:04:58 -0500
- Anyone know if Earls program (DBGrid) is available on the web ? I did a search but came up empty. Tnx es 73, WA4TT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contest
- /archives//html/Topband/2006-12/msg00375.html (6,328 bytes)
- 17. Re: Topband: 160m Jammer (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:48:01 -0500
- Their increased activity over the past days may be tied to the other events in todays news from that part of the world. I doubt that complaining to them directly will help much. May take awhile for t
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00323.html (7,583 bytes)
- 18. Re: Topband: 160 Meter QRM from WRJS (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:49:40 -0500
- Tom... Only 35 miles from the offending station..... sent you an eMail John WA4TT _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.c
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-01/msg00154.html (6,611 bytes)
- 19. Topband: IT9ZGY SK (score: 1)
- Author: "John Vickers" <wa4tt@nlamerica.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:36:46 -0400
- Just saw this post by Joe on CQ-contest. Peter was a regular on Topband for years until recently. I'm sure many remember him. RIP OT, WA4TT In behalf of his contest team, IB9T/IR9Y, I'm very sad to i
- /archives//html/Topband/2014-07/msg00040.html (6,649 bytes)
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