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1. Topband: 160M 9V1 & DX Contest at W3LPL (score: 1): Author: Richard Zwirko <dz@VOA.GOV>; Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:21:00 -0500 (EST); = = = Paul, Congrats on working 9V1GO on the Topband. Quite an accomplishment! One of the things I miss by moving from New England to MD are the propagation advantages of being a little bit closer to; /archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00208.html (8,490 bytes)
2. Topband: Re: Topband Digest, Vol 21, Issue 15 (score: 1): Author: Richard Zwirko <dz@VOA.GOV>; Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:08:53 -0400 (EDT); Activity Watch - 14-16Sept Ford, Although it is very difficult to see visible auroras at the K1HTV Maryland QTH (in the Washington,DC suburbs) when I have been fortunate enough to see them, the 'K' i; /archives//html/Topband/2004-09/msg00077.html (9,043 bytes)
3. Topband: Re: Topband PSK (score: 1): Author: Richard Zwirko <dz@VOA.GOV>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:19:42 -0400 (EDT); - - Jim, In the last Topband PSK sprint all stations operated around 1807 KHz. It was interesting to receive QSLs from guys who were amazed how well PSK worked from their puny low power/poor antenna; /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00200.html (9,040 bytes)
4. Topband: 160 Meter DXCC in a year (score: 1): Author: Richard Zwirko <dz@VOA.GOV>; Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 18:43:06 -0400 (EDT); Heck, it doesn't take high power & big antennas to work DXCC in one year. It's rather easy to do it if you are in Europe or on the East Coast of the USA. In the mid 90's at the bottom of the last Sol; /archives//html/Topband/2004-04/msg00199.html (7,554 bytes)
5. Topband: Re: Topband Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 (score: 1): Author: Richard Zwirko <dz@voa.gov>; Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:05:31 -0500; Having made many hundreds of Topband QRP QSOs I no longer find it so hard to imagine but I do still find it very exciting! Yes, it is amazing what 5 Watts will do when conditions are good, and they h; /archives//html/Topband/2004-03/msg00010.html (8,902 bytes)
6. Topband: Re: Feeding the tower (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:25:46 -0500 (EST); - - - Andy, I'd use the shorter of the two towers. At the K1HTV QTH the tower is about the same as your smaller one. Mine is about 25 meters high with about 5 meters of mast on top. It also has large; /archives//html/Topband/2002-12/msg00177.html (8,532 bytes)
7. Topband: 3XY7C active on 160 Meters (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:04:00 -0500 (EST); Thanks to a heads up telephone call from K3SX during the CW Sweepstapes I added 3XY7C to the K1HTV logbook. The DX Cluster was turned off during the contest so I otherwise would have missed a new one; /archives//html/Topband/2002-11/msg00024.html (7,152 bytes)
8. Topband: Radials around house (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:24:40 -0400 (EDT); = = = Marty, I'm shunt feeding a 78' Rohn #25 about 20 feet behind the house. Because of the small 1/3 acre lot, 15 of the radials are short (1/8 wave) plus a two long (almost 1/4 wave) ones. These c; /archives//html/Topband/2002-09/msg00225.html (8,913 bytes)
9. Topband: S9SS 160M plans (score: 1): Author: dz@voa.gov (Richard Zwirko); Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:15:11 -0400; Fellow Topbanders, I received this email note from Charles, S9SS (formerly S92SS) who gave me (K1HTV) and many others a new country on 160 Meters. Charles is transmitting station manager of the Sao T; /archives//html/Topband/2002-08/msg00109.html (8,023 bytes)
10. Topband: Re: Topband digest, Vol 1 #332 - 6 msgs (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:32:07 -0400 (EDT); - - - Mac, Some of my best low power North-South DX QSOs on the Topband and on 80M have occurred during (not before, not after) but during a magnetic storm. My best phone DX to South America was with; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00057.html (7,439 bytes)
11. Topband: Re: Topband digest, Vol 1 #331 - 3 msgs (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:49:31 -0400 (EDT); - - - I got that same rush minutes earlier when ET3PMW, in his last day of 160 Meter operations, came back to my 100 Watts. He was 559 on the vertical and gave me the same report. It sure was nice to; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00051.html (7,540 bytes)
12. Topband: Re: QRP DX (K1HTV) (score: 1): Author: dz@voa.gov (dz@voa.gov); Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:41:52 -0400 (EDT); - - - Rik, Although many Topband ops run medium to high power on 160 Meters, when conditions are right you can work the world with QRP (5W), if you have a decent antenna. My first 160M QRP QSO was wi; /archives//html/Topband/2002-07/msg00003.html (8,598 bytes)
13. Topband: New limits on VK Hams (score: 1): Author: dz@voa.gov (dz@voa.gov); Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:21:26 -0400 (EDT); Did anyone else catch this item from Q-News Australia, by Graham Kemp VK4BB, as reported on the Amateur Radio Newsline? It doesn't look good for our fellow VK Topbanders or, in fact VK HF ops in gene; /archives//html/Topband/2002-06/msg00060.html (8,006 bytes)
14. Topband: W3LPL CQWW DX Phone 160M condx (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:50:40 -0500 (EST); The conditions experienced at 160 Meter position at W3LPL were unusual, to say the least, for the CQWW DX Phone contest. Can you believe that of the 36 countries worked in only ONE, an HG9, was from; /archives//html/Topband/2001-10/msg00217.html (7,932 bytes)
15. Topband: W3LPL 160M in CQWW Phone (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (by way of Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>); Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:03:52 +0100; for list 2 stations to give them as many points as possible-- in every contest that a stateside QSO counts and on as many bands as possible. . . 73, es be a Gentleman on 160 -- es receive a few meage; /archives//html/Topband/2001-10/msg00166.html (8,179 bytes)
16. Topband: Sept. 11 So. Amer. SSB Q's (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (dz@VOA.GOV); Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:34:23 -0400 (EDT); After a weekend of operating 6M with the Grid Pirates (K8GP) on Spruce Knob, WV in the ARRL VHF Contest I arrived home tired, but not too tired to set up the TS850 again on the Top Band. I has reward; /archives//html/Topband/2001-09/msg00028.html (7,026 bytes)
17. Topband: ARRL 160M Web survey (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:14:13 -0500 (EST); While checking out the ARRL Web site http://www.arrl.org/ toda, I noticed on the right side of the home page that there is a survey asking the question: Do you operate on 160 Meters? [ ] Yes, I opera; /archives//html/Topband/2001-02/msg00008.html (7,164 bytes)
18. Topband: Bizarre conditions 10/28 on top band (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:20:52 -0500 (EST); Tom, Maybe the condx weren't too bizzare down south, but they sure were in MD at W3LPL. I've been operating in one of the Top Band positions at Frank's in DX contests since around '94 and can say tha; /archives//html/Topband/2000-10/msg00179.html (8,977 bytes)
19. Topband: K5K double signal on 160M? (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:31:43 -0400 (EDT); K5K showed up on 160M around 0830Z Tuesday, 10/24 with a FB signal and lots of callers. His transmit frequency was 1826.5 KHz but a number of times I heard a slightly weaker signal of K5K on the oper; /archives//html/Topband/2000-10/msg00155.html (7,062 bytes)
20. Topband: Asia in the log (score: 1): Author: dz@VOA.GOV (Richard Zwirko); Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:43:05 -0400 (EDT); Ivo, 5B4ADA showed up tonight, 13 Sept. around 02:45Z on 1823 KHz. Sigs were FB and he was in the log after a few calls. He seemed to be hearing my 100W fairly well, and worked into W9 & 0 land. YV1D; /archives//html/Topband/2000-09/msg00048.html (6,956 bytes)

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