- 1. Topband: Stand-off insulators for use w/ receive antennas (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:42:27 -0500
- Where can I locate those old (?) stand-off insulators used in exterior antenna tuning/matching boxes, etc? Only need a handful of them. Substitute? Hate to use those "Banana-plug binding posts" from
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-09/msg00099.html (6,916 bytes)
- 2. Topband: Beverage ends: taper down or not? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 09:39:09 -0500
- Recently I saw some comments, referenced particularly to two wire Beverages and about not tapering the last 60 feet or so to ground at each end. I thought I read something also, that a single wire be
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-10/msg00024.html (6,805 bytes)
- 3. Topband: Grounding protection-Beverage? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:30:18 -0600
- What are some options for lightning protection of a Beverage...and...a remote preamp at the Beverage feedpoint? How about an electric fence grounding apparatus? I have seen them in the ranch stores.
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00156.html (6,484 bytes)
- 4. Topband: Pennants at VK9XG?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:31:30 -0600
- I wonder if anyone has heard any comments on the performance of the pennants used at VK9XG most recently? Maybe W0YG, Burt is lurking in the background can elaborate to performance/pro-cons, etc. I u
- /archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00254.html (6,980 bytes)
- 5. Topband: Fw: Cattle-proofing (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 17:18:05 -0500
- At the "Goat (antelope) Ranch" in Wyoming we had a problem w/ cows knocking down the vertical uprights. We put an old tire around each pole. That stopped the knocking over problem. They need to be so
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-05/msg00005.html (6,852 bytes)
- 6. Topband: Reversible Beverage (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:51:31 -0500
- What has been the experience of a reversible Beverage? I am looking at building two of these to optimize the diagonal of my property and cover four directions. I will have a 9:1 Balun and a terminati
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-09/msg00033.html (6,872 bytes)
- 7. Topband: CN2R !! (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:58:38 -0600
- I thought there would be a lot of whoopee over CN2R's appearance on 160 Tuesday evening (not night!) maybe 30 mins + prior to my South Texas location sunset. Maybe that is common DX for op's farther
- /archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00024.html (6,543 bytes)
- 8. Topband: Common-mode noise/long buried feedline runs (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 07:40:52 -0600
- TB-er's: OK; best to suppress common-mode at the feed-point; agree. What about long feedline runs...buried? My 80 , 160 xmit antenna's and Beverages each have at least 300 foot coaxial feedline runs,
- /archives//html/Topband/2007-01/msg00027.html (8,769 bytes)
- 9. Topband: Reversible Bev using ladderline?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:43:41 -0600
- All this good discussion re: WD1-A comm line is appreciated. 1. ...But, how about ladderline, specifically 450 Ohm ladderline? Having run 2 wire spaced 18"-24", WD1-A and now 450 Ohm ladderline, I am
- /archives//html/Topband/2008-11/msg00184.html (8,116 bytes)
- 10. Topband: Burying radials (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:23:23 -0600
- My near neighbor tried the on-top-of-the-ground method and it did not work well at. Years later you could still very visibly see the radials. I think the success depends, in part, on the type of gras
- /archives//html/Topband/2009-12/msg00147.html (7,469 bytes)
- 11. Topband: How tall Beverage poles, etc (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:59:28 -0600
- ...........(trimmed) 10' tall Phragmites, those marsh reeds that look .......................................................................................................<>........................
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-02/msg00099.html (8,392 bytes)
- 12. Topband: W9AC: Your noise problems search (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:40:34 -0500
- Paul: A very enlightening report. I think other subscribers would be most interested in your further successes and tracing techniques as you move forward....please! 73 Mike, K5UO One device at a time
- /archives//html/Topband/2010-09/msg00009.html (7,948 bytes)
- 13. Topband: Pirates and K9W (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Bragassa" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 14:03:12 -0600
- I had to work them 3-4 times to get a good RTTY QSO. You would think I could achieve "DXCC-K9W-N.I.L-All-Band". Finally got as good one for that mode.. de Mike, K5UO .................................
- /archives//html/Topband/2013-11/msg00237.html (6,587 bytes)
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