Jim K9YC posted a message at 1337 LT on 5 November about "very deep QSB" on the TX3A signal, and I remembered the attached message that showed up just about 2 days ago on the IRCA reflector (a Medium
I sent a 5K0T QSL request to HA7RY (including 160m, at both IOTA locations), I included a SAE with 330 Forint mint postage, on 4 March, got the reply in mid-August 2009, mailed on 7 August (I keep al
-- I took a quick I'll second that! Although being a ham for many years, it is only last year (after moving to a more rural location) that I have been able to truly get started on 160. I still have j
A year ago I got a card from a LY for a Topband contact. I had sent him a SAE with two Lithuanian 1,55 Lt stamps attached, he also included his two cards to 2 other US hams who had sent him reply env
A day before the operation from YI9PSE ended, I did not have any contacts showing in the online log. During the final upload, four contacts for me appeared at once. One of them (80 CW) I know is good
The broadcast band DXers have seen the same thing, typically on European sigs on the local low power channels, typically 1485 or 1584 kHz, where they fairly suddenly rise up out of the murk, shine an
This may be very simplified. I am far from a Beverage expert, but it was explained to me once that the Bev works well over poorly conducting soil because the wavefront is no longer just vertically or
Unfortunately the new normal in broadcasting, especially for regionals like this, who typically run 1 to 5 kW, is to arrange for a contract engineer who might 'cover' as many as a dozen stations, and
There is a printed monthly magazine called "Lowdown" published by the Longwave Club of America, running typically 24 pages, covering everything on LF from "Natural Radio" (sferics)) to 500 kHz, and M
When I was in a townhome in Tampa I was able to use what is called "paddle wire". This is 22 ga. steel wire painted in green enamel. It is used in crafts work for tying up plant stems for floral deco
They had been up on 80 cw earlier tonight but QSY to 160 at 10 pm local time, 0300z Wed, on 1825, listening up 2 and with best signal I have hrd them so far (in FL), wkd with 200 w out and 70 foot lo
Re: J6/N7QT I worked him around 02z on the 10th on 80 CW and asked about 160 and he said 'probably tomorrow' but I never heard him that night and I stayed home from an event my wife wanted to go to a
Unlikely to ever get past the starting gate as AM Broadcast is a worldwide allocation and I'd think that many other nations have an opinion on this. 73 Bob k2euh _________________ Topband Reflector
In recent years many Canadian fulltime AM stations have been shut down on AM and moved over to FM. However they remain "notified" which is a semitechnical term meaning the Canadian government tells o
A story ran in Stars and Stripes (mil newspaper) 2 or 3 months ago saying that the Wullenweber at Misawa Japan was then being decommissioned and torn down. The sole surviving such site was now at Elm