- 1. Re: Topband: Shunt fed T (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:49:43 +1300
- John, Though I am no expert, I think you are on the right lines. The Tee-top, or X-top, or disc-top, or self-supporting top-hat are all, to my mind, working as "capacity hats". As with earth radials
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00046.html (7,564 bytes)
- 2. Re: Topband: Equal opportunity] (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:03:03 +1300
- I believe I know who you mean. I have heard a station give the "NO DUPES NO DUPES" message in ordinary DX pileups (painfully slowly, while everybody - bar the Southern Europeans naturally - stands p
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00039.html (8,815 bytes)
- 3. Re: Topband: Narrow Filtering (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:17:24 +1300
- That's *one* option. If everyone listened properly, was on-the-ball enough to get the timing spot-on and followed the right procedures, a bit of off-tuning shouldn't matter too much. When CQing with
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00043.html (9,739 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Earth conductivity (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:07:01 +1300
- Talking of that, any idea how conductive my soil might be? It's about 12" of topsoil on a clay base, the depth of which exceeds any holes I have yet dug. It's the sort of solid Real Man's Clay I cou
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00214.html (9,014 bytes)
- 5. Re: Topband: 5N7M QSL information (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:32:27 +1200
- Hi Price. http://www.ik3qar.it/manager/man_result.php?call=5n7m&s=n gives QSL via OM3CGN: Ivan Gombos, Dr.Clementisa 4/161, 97901 Rimavska Sobota, Slovak Republic Don't know if it works - just passin
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-05/msg00009.html (8,272 bytes)
- 6. Re: Topband: Inverted L wire (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 10:51:53 +1200
- Actually you can use an arrow or slingshot: 1. Put a line right over the tree, or over a convenient high clear branch. 2. Tie both ends of the line together at ground level (this way you will be abl
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-05/msg00060.html (8,407 bytes)
- 7. Re: Topband: 160m Noise Floor (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:36:49 +1200
- Move to the country :-) Use another band :-) Use a remote receiver in a better QTH :-) If none of those are an option, there are some practical things you can do such as systematically hunt down and
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-09/msg00006.html (9,005 bytes)
- 8. Re: Topband: Elevated Radials as a sub for the real thing? (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 15:09:26 +1300
- Me too Herb! Well said. Despite the current interest, I am dubious about the value of just a few elevated radials over a decent earth mat but I suspect it will take some patient scientific experimen
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-11/msg00009.html (7,694 bytes)
- 9. Re: Topband: T30RH & Pile-Up Decorum (score: 1)
- Author: "Gary Hinson" <Gary@isect.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:08:03 +1300
- I think you've hit the nail on the head, Steve. The key factor is the DX operator's pileup management and general operating techniques, things such as: - Being careful where they dump or move their p
- /archives//html/Topband/2011-03/msg00059.html (14,350 bytes)
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