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1. Re: Topband: Directions to Bouvet (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:06:16 -0500
Someone needed directions to Bouvet: Go south to to Tierra del Fuego and turn left.  Watch for it on the right. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Tierra+del+Fuego+Province,+Argentina/Bouvet+Island/@-53
/archives//html/Topband/2019-03/msg00107.html (7,385 bytes)

2. Re: Topband: Fun things about voltages at the top of verticals...OT (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:25:01 -0500
Sure enough. It wasn't any time recently, then? 73 - Mark N5OT Last time, they thought it was a UFO! Dad made me take it down then. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _________________ Searchable Archives:http:/
/archives//html/Topband/2019-04/msg00085.html (7,522 bytes)

3. Re: Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:26:33 -0500
Can anybody loan me a stick so I can poke my own eyes out instead of continuing to read this ongoing thread? Thanks in advance, Mark N5OT _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.
/archives//html/Topband/2019-04/msg00161.html (9,741 bytes)

4. Re: Topband: 30-Foot Vertical (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 13:14:27 -0500
Hi Roy - you mean for 160 meters?  I think there are plenty of credible ways to cobble odd pieces of tower together to make a useful antenna, especially if climbing it is never something you need to
/archives//html/Topband/2019-06/msg00002.html (7,816 bytes)

5. Re: Topband: RFI on TB (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 05:47:36 -0500
I can relate the same story here.  The power company guy came by, I showed him what direction it was coming from, he went to the nearest pole with a lightning arrestor in that direction (a little ove
/archives//html/Topband/2019-07/msg00067.html (10,533 bytes)

6. Re: Topband: RFI on TB (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:34:59 -0500
This has got to be on a case-by case basis.  I don't have any listening antennas, so i listen on my transmit vertical.  It works fine.  For me.  Most of the time. Would I hear more stuff with listeni
/archives//html/Topband/2019-07/msg00077.html (11,020 bytes)

7. Re: Topband: Beverage Wire field installation video (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 04:26:13 -0500
Steve - just a note to say thanks for this resource.  I have enjoyed going through stuff on your channel as I figure out how I'm going to do the RX antennas at my new location.  Your contribution to
/archives//html/Topband/2019-07/msg00100.html (8,281 bytes)

8. Re: Topband: Which RX antenna is better? (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:40:47 -0500
This is a really good answer. Thanks Tim. 73 - Mark N5OT On 7/29/2019 7:12 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote: Terry, I strongly encourage you to put up the K9AY. By no numerical measure is it the best. But its ea
/archives//html/Topband/2019-07/msg00114.html (9,236 bytes)

9. Re: Topband: Hairpin match to inverted L? (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 06:47:33 -0500
Plastic bottles are the coil form of choice on DXpeditions.  Excellent. Mark N5OT Here is picture of coil I made to tune Inv. L at 9Y4 with 15-20 Ohm impedance. It was tuned in 2 steps: 1. calculate
/archives//html/Topband/2019-09/msg00033.html (9,396 bytes)

10. Topband: ARRL 160 is upon us (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 10:00:57 -0600
Greetings topband contesters, If you like 160 then you already know this weekend is ARRL's annual 160 meter bedlam. I had the pleasure of writing about it last year in QST: https://contests.arrl.org/
/archives//html/Topband/2019-12/msg00039.html (7,759 bytes)

11. Re: Topband: Receive ant - binocular cores (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 07:10:34 -0500
One BOG was very low. I'm thinking BOGs are low by definition, but that's probably not what you were talking about :-) Tony, to confirm that the busted ferrite is the actual reason your BOG is low, d
/archives//html/Topband/2020-10/msg00023.html (8,088 bytes)

12. Re: Topband: RX Power over Coax (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:22:22 -0500
In my head this is becoming "101 uses for old network cable" which is great because I've got a ton of it coiled up neatly and set aside but not thrown away :-)  Thanks topbanders. Still working on th
/archives//html/Topband/2020-10/msg00045.html (9,464 bytes)

13. Re: Topband: OT - LG Dryer RFI (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:24:11 -0600
Bill, you might check with your wife.  I bet she is cleaning the dryer's filter every time she uses it which might explain why you can't find the hash. 73 - Mark N5OT Have you tried to do anything ab
/archives//html/Topband/2020-11/msg00132.html (10,343 bytes)

14. Re: Topband: I need help proofing an Inverted L model I made please. 40 x 143, four 100 radials, #14 wire. (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:14:30 -0600
Yeah.  I don't claim to be a radial expert but I do claim to have a lot of experience working other stations on 160 meters. My buddy W9RE told me on a DXpedition once that he built a dipole laying on
/archives//html/Topband/2020-12/msg00102.html (13,368 bytes)

15. Re: Topband: Need Ideas For "Fusing" Beverages From Falling Trees (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2021 10:52:57 -0600
falling along its length (1000 ft) - and the antennas keep working. Strange as it sounds, (living where I live and all that), sometimes during an ice storm all you really want to do is get on the ai
/archives//html/Topband/2021-01/msg00049.html (8,234 bytes)

16. Re: Topband: K9AY Loop Question (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 09:34:04 -0600
Hi Pete, I have a PILE of experience with K9AY loops, but I don't use them in the usual "one-support-two-loops-four-directions" configuration.  Mine are all individual loops on individual supports de
/archives//html/Topband/2021-01/msg00172.html (9,253 bytes)

17. Re: Topband: TopBand DownUnder (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:54:56 -0500
Wait.  There's such a thing as an "accodion inductor"?  I thought I knew everything. I'll be glad when mowing season is over, too. 73 - Mark N5OT Gud to hear Luke, Dennis and Adrian coming through so
/archives//html/Topband/2021-09/msg00032.html (7,391 bytes)

18. Re: Topband: TopBand DownUnder (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:37:11 -0500
When I was a kid, we had a guy WB6ZKK who touted dipoles made of slinkys.  I am thinking some of the same electronic theory and design must have come into play. Tree will remember.  Long live the old
/archives//html/Topband/2021-09/msg00034.html (10,536 bytes)

19. Re: Topband: TopBand DownUnder (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:45:51 -0500
Okay then, who was making dipoles out of slinkys?  Barbed wire is not germane to a discussion of either accordion inductors or Tornado Tuners. Back on topic, I re-read K9YC's presentation about 160 m
/archives//html/Topband/2021-09/msg00036.html (11,940 bytes)

20. Re: Topband: Balloon Supported Vertical (score: 1)
Author: Mark - N5OT <r-emails@n5ot.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 15:17:53 -0600
Been There Done That You might want to figure the weight of what you have to lift.  One would think it was, like, duh, you make a wire vertical and fill a balloon full of helium and ... but it turns
/archives//html/Topband/2021-11/msg00012.html (10,238 bytes)


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