Hello Topbanders, Well my first Stew Perry participation, it was very tuff, with static averaging S9, and propagation was zero to NA east coast and only two qso's to the west (W6BH and N5IA). Nothing
Hello Herb KV4FZ and other topbanders, I found a great site provided by N9SSA, which will calculate your six = figure grid square from your latitude and longitude.=20 It also calculate distance betwe
Hello Harry and all topbanders, from down under, with a big hole in the ozone (ionoshere) layer. The only way to make sure the loop does not interact with the beverage and therefore degrade its perfo
Hello Stew Perry participants from down under. I think some of you have missed the point about DX Window and should not confuse it with the normal band plan when operating the SP contest. As far as I
Hello Topbanders, just wish to tell you about my sloper system, I used some years ago on 160. This was installed by me on 160 after hearing of the success of such as system from Roy, ZL4BO and Dave,
Hello USA topbanders, for those who have not realised it, conditions are so good lately that it is worth listening up in the ssb section. It seems top band has finaly come good. Yesterday there were
Hello to all. Last weekend conditions from my qth were very interesting, starting with a great north american and central america opening the day before the contest, signals were great, from 1115utc
Can anyone tell me what is the packet station transmission on 1825khz is and where is it's location. I hear it when the path to southern europe is good. I pressume it is a similiar type station as on
Hello all. I had a qrn free weekend for a change this year. A few days before the contest it was very bad, so just a bit of luck my way, this year. On both night signals from USA started to roll in a
Hello all topbanders. Unfortunately the CQ WW CW contest was pretty much a wipe out, especially to NA, due to our summer storms. As far as I could see on the weather map, all states here in VK had li
Hello Topbanders, now that I am back in the land down under, having returned from China and I am please to find all my antennas in good working order and Top Band sounding good to me and on my first
I see there has been some discussion about Remi and his tube problems. He did tell that the tubes he has were electrically good, but I presume he has tried to clean the contacts. Maybe he has been aw
Hello all and Happy new Year. I did have a qso with Remi tonight and asked him again about his amplifier and tube problems. He said the amplifier was an Alpha 87 and he is sure it is only the tubes t
Here my 160 dipole is right over the house (only 30 mtrs high) and my phone line is underground and I am using a D-Link DSL504 (the modem first installed when I went to ADSL) and no special filters a
I have been reading this thread of comments with interest and here are some of my observations. From down under, in VK3. during this contest so far, I have been very surprised at the good signals hea
With regards to VK0M on 160m, I am sure this will be difficult as I have been told that the big wire antennas that were on the island (Vee beam and Rhombics) have been taken down. I have also been to
Hello Top Band enthusiast. Just to let you know, I did visit Bob, vk3zl who is in hospital recovering from his cancer operations. He is seemed very chirpy and in pretty good spirits, for someone who
Hi all Top Banders. This year's contest was almost a total wipe out as far as VK was concerned, due to summer storms on the east coast and the usual topical storms up north and a cyclone off the west
Hi all. Very interesting "thinking out loud" topic. With regards to the 403 crystal front end unit system (it seems not yet available), it will obviously be quiet expensive, even much more than the Y
Tree, that was VE7BS, BOB (now SK) and VK3ZL, BOB (now also SK), with almost all qso's using SSB. We, ve7bs, vk3zl (previously vk3bvs), including myself vk3io (previously vk3bee) and other vk's, had