The aussies are always looking at things differently but topband on Mars never occurred to me as a field for investigation. The following link shows that maybe a future Stew Perry could be held on
The following website has some interesting information that may help us to figure out what goes on in topband propagation It seems to be reasonable to expect that VLF conditions relate to MF conditio
Yeaterday K0HGW and myself spent the day with a line crew from the Otero County Electric Cooperative trying to find two noise sources which have plagued them for several months and occasioned numerou
The DXARC DX Colombia Amateur Radio Club HK1NA announces its next expedition to Malpelo Island in 2012 as HK0NA. All efforts have been made by the Colombian group ahead of Team leader Jorge Prieto HK
T31A has been com ing in for several hours the last couple of nights with booming signals even louder than the continuous lightning crashes from the midwest storms listening to the pile
the 2008-2009 top band peaks may be explained here http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_Insights_on_How_Solar_Minimums_Affect_Earth_999.html But there may be a repeat performance in the offing h
A major solar storm wave front should hit earth this weekend It might create some wild activity including some low band activatin on its tail edge See the NASA report and movie http://science.nasa
This morning T32C was 25 over 9 on1815 and I tried QRP with 1 watt. He came right back to my call and said I was a real 599 so I dropped my power to a measured 50 milliwatts output and he was able t
Several people have asked about the antenna I am using on top band The antenna is described in detail in the APRIL 1984 CQ magazine starting on page 20 as WHAT LOOKS LIKE A BIRDCAGE FOR A 2000 POUND
"See if other things blow or burn up." How could you express it better!!! HNY Larry N7DF WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE LIGHT THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU ______________________________________________
At 00:28 UTC on March 7 a major solar flare (X5 level) launched a Coronal Mass Ejection toward earth. It is expected to begin impacting earth's magnetosphere late in the day (UTC) on march 8 or earl
During the summer the storm static is the main obstacle to top band operation here 40 over nine crashes every 30 seconds kind of drown out everything, QRP or QRO In fact the fish beacons still com
http://www.austriamicrosystems.com/Products/RF-Products/Lightning-Sensor/AS3935 WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE LIGHT THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU _______________________________________________ UR RST IS
A very effective and simple method of controlling ants in outdoor boxes is to place some pipe tobacco in the box Ants are smart enough to keep away from the stuff! __________________________________
I live in the Sacremento Mountains of southern New Mexico overlooking the White Sands Missile Range. Frequently there are weird signals from the tests being conducted there that impact the amateur b
I have found that 20 foot lengths of 1/2 inch PVC pipe works very well in getting radial wires through, around and under the very prickly shrubbery that gets in the way here in the New Mexico desert.
May explain some of the really weird QRN we hear from time to time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkTL2Ug6llE WHEN YOU ARE FACING THE LIGHT THE SHADOWS FALL BEHIND YOU _____________________________
Not exactly top band but definitely different Japan mini-satellite to flash code from space by Staff Writers Tokyo (AFP) Oct 5, 2012 A palm-sized Japanese satellite in orbit around Earth will flash
The interplanetary magnetic field has been south oriented for the last several hours (as of 0100Z Dec 10) This opens magnetic portals which can permit charged particles from the sun to penetrate dee