Carsten, What a great adventure - and thanks for sharing the results with us. I have a question: what was the baseline noise level at SM6DOI's QTH and was it the same for the beverages and the 4SQ? I
Bob, Here's some comments There are folks who rave over them and others who say they add nothing. You won't know until you try it at your QTH. <snip> The signal levels will be way down on a larger an
<snip> Remember Phil, the bandplan is only 'advisory' in Region1 so it makes sense to spread ourselves up the band. (http://www.iaru-r1.org/05%2010%2009%20Region%201%20HF%20Bandplan%202006%20(Amended
Eddy, Thanks for advertising this for us G's! A slight correction - its 4 hours long (21:00 Saturday - 01:00 Sunday). Typically the first hour to 90 mins in manic and then it slows down. Propagation
Eddy, George et al, We approached the beverages at 3B7C with the same level of trepidation. Being a narrow island we elected to run the EU/NA beverage so that the feedpoint was on the south shore and
George and others, Agree. We concluded that the coral sand was sufficiently poor to allow the beverage to work and as others have said, its the soil under the beverage that is important. The question
Raoul, It's not just the filter that matters, its the filter skirt response too. I have 2 x 400Hz INRADS in my MkV (one in each IF) and another in the sub rx. IMO the INRAD 400's are a better option
Andy, Take a look at Dunestar 300 series http://www.dunestar.com/model300.htm or W3NQN filters at http://www.arraysolutions.com/Products/wx0bbpf6.htm#200W or ICE filters http://www.arraysolutions.com
Shelby, The reason you do not have problems with your XMatch is more to do with your antenna than your tuner. Your set up presents a fairly easy to match impedance on 160m and thus does not stress yo
I failed to mention .... I am not sure if Michael enabled the ZD8UW ClubLog search facility for public use (Club Log is a membership benefit for CDXC members www.cdxc.org.uk). If he has not then non-
Hi Denis, Welcome to 160m. I have a 17m version of your mast - mine is actually a Racal, but the concept is similar. The first thing to note is that the pneumatic seals are neoprene and thus non-cond
When we were on the 3B7C DX-pedition we had a lot of requests for SSB on 160m - and those request grew with time. So we announced a system of going to SSB at the top of every (propagation) hour and c
Don't forget to put a static bleed choke or resistor from the vertical to ground if you are using just a series capacitor from the vertical to the feedpoint. 73 Chris, G3SVL _________________________
Gary, There's another way - Club Log. Club Log automatically analyses all logs in it's database to produce most wanted lists. You can filter by band, by mode and by which continent (i.e to select wha
Some great sigs from W-land on 160 SSB last night - but no JA's heard on SSB (they were loud on CW). We'll be on again tonight on SSB - is 1910 KHz the best place to listen? Other news, we put up two
At 05:20 21/09/2012, you wrote: There are significant differences between "verticals on the beach" and verticals (including vertical dipoles) over real ground. Google for "pseudo Brewster Angle" and
Hi Tom, I have 2.4KW of MW BC transmitter 300m from the base of my 160m antenna, so I know the problem. I've found an ICE BC filter to be pretty good - but I've only ever used it to tweak a matching
Like many others on this list, VK6HD was my first topband VK contact. But the story gets better. I sent Mike a direct QSL and enclosed an Australian 5 dollar bill that my mother had tucked away for s
That doesn't help those of us in Region 1 who don't have access to 1800 - 1810? 73 & HNY Chris, G3SVL _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
I have a three-frequency 2.7KW BC station that is 350 yards from the base of my 160m vertical. The NQN BCB filter knocks out all problems - well except for the 2nd harmonic of the 945KHz feed which s