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1. Topband: CQWW106 & Logic 8 (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:03:29 -0500; Anyone used Logic 8 for CQWW160 before & using it again for this upcoming weekend banquet? I'd like to go over how you've customized the contest setup for CQ160WW. Got the hardware ready, now to set; /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00217.html (6,508 bytes)
2. Topband: BOG & transformer (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:36:51 -0500; I've got a K9AY but it's not really as good at hearing weak signals as I'd like. With the contest coming up this weekend I thought I ought to try laying out some wire and see how that will do. The wi; /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00233.html (9,014 bytes)
3. Topband: Need to know more about beverages... (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:04:29 -0500; Well, it was a scramble trying to make these hastily thrown together beverages for the contest. I found some interesting discoveries which means I need to learn more. Radio is a K3. The preamp is tur; /archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00247.html (9,056 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: Contest (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:56:53 -0500; I concur. I admit to using very narrow a filtering when in a contest, sometimes going down to 50Hz but when I do, I am not the one doing the calling. Most stations reply when I respond to their CQ s; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00011.html (8,958 bytes)
5. Topband: Need to know more about beverages... (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:54:43 -0500; together which First off I want to thank the many people who have written both to me directly and back to the reflector as well, regarding my Beverage query. It's nice to find the camaraderie and pe; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00013.html (9,271 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: Narrow Filtering (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:27:11 -0500; them? Steve in a word: Yes. This answer applies to me, not to you, we all have our own reasons to make a judgment. Yours & mine may coincide but here they diverge. If you enter a contest to win but; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00033.html (10,791 bytes)
7. Topband: Coax for beverage (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:54:55 -0500; I need some long lengths of coax. I tried to find some of the flooded variety locally but no luck. The best price I could find a long run of coax at was Home Depot. I doubt this stuff is much good bu; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00093.html (7,003 bytes)
8. Topband: Beverage supports - Thinking of Deer... (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:37:05 -0500; I was looking at using PVC & thinking of getting 1/2" or 3/4" PVC and spreading them out every 40 feet or so. I ventured out today to where these are going to be laid out in a NW & NE direction & mos; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00094.html (7,320 bytes)
9. Re: Topband: Beverage supports - Thinking of Deer... (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:04:36 -0500; First of all I want to thank those of you who took the time to answer my questions regarding beverages and finally, to the people who responded regarding supports. I ended up getting the two directio; /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00201.html (12,420 bytes)
10. Re: Topband: Magic Antenna Land (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:58:50 -0500; Hi, To reiterate what I posted a short time ago, I have a beautiful location for transmitting, salt water tributaries within 100' of my radials and a salt marsh for 40 of the 60 radials, the others a; /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00021.html (11,610 bytes)
11. Re: Topband: suitable wire for top loading wires? (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:54:15 -0400; I concur. Granted, my system for the inv-L is not ideal but it seems to work for me. I have dead bug radial base with 60 some 130' radials. Dead bug in that in the middle of the stainless plate is a; /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00087.html (13,382 bytes)
12. Re: Topband: 'Spud Gun' (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:23:40 -0400; Tom, It was written up in the March 09 QST. I found that using an air jet with dead man throttle is the perfect trigger, not the solenoid mentioned in the article. I had to experiment with the sprink; /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00097.html (9,864 bytes)
13. Re: Topband: 'Spud Gun' (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:11:00 -0400; I don't want this to become an OT thread for Top Band, most people here have fine antennae for 160M but some of us are antennae challenged and make the best of our circumstances. What I did was use t; /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00107.html (14,465 bytes)
14. Re: Topband: Spud Gun (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:15:03 -0400; What you need to do it this, decide on the size of barrel you want to use (The whole thing is made of PVC cept for the valve itself). Look for PVC endcaps that will slide inside the barrel and be alm; /archives//html/Topband/2010-03/msg00113.html (9,178 bytes)
15. Topband: Inverted L wire (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 19:26:47 -0400; Hi, I just fired up 160 to see what I might find active at this time of year & found the SWR was terrible. Resonance is now around 2 MHz and my guess is the wire has broken inside the insulation agai; /archives//html/Topband/2010-05/msg00054.html (6,807 bytes)
16. Topband: Rx antenna suggestions (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:06:22 -0400; Hello again, Rig is a fully loaded K3. Tx antenna is an inv-L. I need to do something with my Rx antennae; I have a couple 500+ foot bi-directional Beverage antennae set up from a couple of years ago; /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00007.html (8,468 bytes)
17. Re: Topband: Capacitor for Inverted L (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:05:50 -0400; I used to use an ugly, beat up 500pf vac variable at the base of my 160M inv-L & used the MFJ SWR Analyzer to adjust it. The CAT-5 cable I used for wire was brought up over a tall tree and chafing fr; /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00082.html (7,772 bytes)
18. Topband: More uses for my Topband Inv-L (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:18:26 -0400; Funny how we're creatures of habit... I have 60 130' radials half on a salt marsh & half on the boggy wood beside it. I used a spud gun to get my 160 inv-l over the tops of trees at the marsh's edge.; /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00173.html (7,436 bytes)
19. Topband: Hi-Z or DXE Active Rx antennae (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:14:28 -0400; My Beverages are lousy to the point of being useless over the salt marsh and I'm going out there & taking them down as soon as the deer ticks go dormant for the fall. Looking at the replies I've gott; /archives//html/Topband/2011-10/msg00186.html (7,241 bytes)
20. Topband: Rx antenna, Rf Limiter & preamp sequence (score: 1): Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>; Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:31:19 -0400; Hi, I've just picked up a used HI-Z triangular antenna array & wonder where I might best insert my ICE RF limiter/arrestor (model 196) & the in-line preamp. I'm guessing to not overload the preamp an; /archives//html/Topband/2011-11/msg00014.html (6,886 bytes)

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