Your success is appealing. You are The Man! The Top Pond-Crosser I know! I took a header in the kitchen to celebrate my 79th birthday on Dec 27th, and broke two bones in my left wrist/sprained thumb
While In London in 1973, I just HAD to pick up some sports jackets along Savile Row. Unfortunately, they didnt have any that fit me...and I didnt have time to have them tailor them, so I bought three
a High Z array of typically 4-8 short verticals that give RDF'a of c. 13 db....lifting almost anybody out of the noise. _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Top
Its so good Im thinking about getting the 4 square version.....:) that´s a great antenna! like 8 beverages in a 200 ft circle! 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W El jue, 4 feb 2021 a las 17:05, escribió: a High Z
Fri night from 9:30- midnight was terrific on 160 from the Columbus OH area. ( Its always surprising how spotty the openings are, however. But the fickle spotlight keeps moving around, thank heavens.
Here in central Ohio ( nr Columbus) , Fri night was quite good from EU with strong sigs from SW and Eastern EU. but no Scandanavia! The on-going high speed solar wind disrupted the northern latitudes
around 559 on peaks here in central Ohio. Also heard a central Euro stations about the same. Not great but at least making the haul. Will listen again tonight. Bob Send Topband mailing list submissio
Very helpful comments Tom. Mni tnx. I have a 52 ft INV-L that I cant get any higher. and was thinking about converting it to a T. The current L with 26 radials does great in 160 contests, and pretty
Been a long winter of very very few openings to VK, nothing much to the Far Pacific, and a smattering of JA/HL/UA0's. Europe has been pretty consistent post sunset, esp around 0300z and again at Euro
Andy you were coming in head over heels above any other Euro last night. I CQ'd but all my RBN reports were on the weak side. So maybe it was a bit of one way skip. However, this morning at SR I was
sosunds like you may have power line noise which wont go away, but may vary with weather. I had similar problems which I tracked down with an AM radio, and driving along the roads around my house til
Been hearing Don, VE9XX a lot lately. Worked him a couple days ago beaming at 70 degrees. Today he was strongest at 15 degrees ( from central Ohio.) I tried five times to point the 5 el yagi at anywh
Been reading the encouraging posts. So, I got up and heard good activity, working: VK3HJ - ZL1AZ - VK2WR at Ohio SR and up to 20 minutes after, when the band faded out. Gud to hear Luke, Dennis and A
I got the idea of winding some #6 or 8? solid copper wire on a pvc coke bottle from DJ0IP's website. Now I can "play" its length to about 2-2.5 times the original, and it resonates my 1/4 wave L nice
. Here in Ohio we are still having moderate QRN especially in the evenings. When I get on at our SR, the VK/ZL boys are often coming through fairly well with much less QRN. My INV-L has a ceramic ins
1. Had a fabulous 95 ft Buckeye tree at the rear of my last property. After staring at it for a couple years, it got me on 160m with a 1/4 wave Inv-L (apex around 90 ft) Top Band came alive with my 1
Roger, Ive been at this QTH since 2009. Use #14 solid copper (insulated) through the top corner insulator. It started out as a 20 ft tall, 1/4 wave for TB with a single ground rod and no radials. Tha
Two nights ago they were fairly strong around 0500z on 1832 but so was the QRN. Brutal copy. Last night they were much better copy but again at 0500z they didnt seem to be replying to NA stations, or
Thursday was the charm as I got them in my log ( and theirs) on 40-30-80-160 cw. Nice to see their almost instantaneous log confirming qso's and eliminating the need to work them 2-3-4-5 times to be
Just had a sudden isssue of my ACOM 1000 tripping due to high swr. It had been fine, then began an intermittent, come and go problem. I checked the feed point for my 160 and 80m wires at the base of