Dave, No card received here yet. 73 Joel W5ZN -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
It is really great to see all of the recent posts about Beverages and low band antennas....getting me pumped for the upcoming season here in the heat and Thunderstorms of Summer. At Dayton this year
Bill, One point of clarification about my comment. It was specific to the 8 vertical RX array that Bob and I wrote about and was constructed at W5ZN. The elements were light aluminum tubing (1.25" di
Petr, They are the same thing. Either one will work very FB for you. 73 Joel W5ZN -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
As of late there has been a significant increase in "Chat Room Confirmation Requests" for QSO's. With marginal conditions this season and some DXpeditions out there that we all need sometimes our Q's
I have one and give it an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10. ZN -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Mike, I'm not a psychologist but after 40 years as an active radio amateur, 27 of which were directly involved in national and international amateur radio organizations, I learned that once a person
Hi Tom, I have (unfortunately!) had this happen twice here where the Beverage wire literally melted in two from a nearby tree hit. I've never had the wire "vaporize" but definitely surprised by the "
Eduardo - your arrangement should work well, especially if you place the main lobe into areas of interest and the "nulls" are into regions of no activity (or noise sources). It is a good general setu
Jeff - the southern periphery of my 8 circle vertical array (W8JI broad side/end fire passive version) is 75 feet from a barb wire fence that runs a quarter mile east and west. While one might claim
Does anyone have a Groth counter dial they would like to part with, or does anyone have pieces of one laying around? I have one that has broken. -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _________________ Topband
Frank - Good stuff and very glad you made public your work on the array. It is good to see the array is working very well at W3LPL. I continue to have excellent performance from both of my BSEF array
Frank - the Magic T's were one of the changes as well as using a switching circuit board that Mike, W9RE, made available. There was another feedpoint change that Robye, W1MK suggested would be good t
Bruce - I use multiple receivers with my array but the "splitting" is performed in the shack, not at the switching/main point using the same direction. If someone desired to use the array for multipl
I do have an 80 meter version in addition to the 160 array and can report there is plenty of "reserve" signal on 80 as well even after 600 ft of feedline and splitting the signal to two receivers. 73
Gord, The target noise floor here at my QTH is -130 dBm and I average -128 dBm in all directions except two that average -125 dBm (line noise issues). The signal strength of the DX stations I hear an
Just FYI. Many of you knew "Big Gun" Mike, W5UC who was on this reflector, asked an occasional question or provided some input from his experience/perspective. 73 Joel W5ZN -- Forwarded message -- Fr
Yes, on some of the bands circular polarization is used for EME -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
BUT Alaska is a DX country per the rules! -- 73 Joel W5ZN www.w5zn.org _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
1.2. Definitions 1.2.1. W/VE stations are those operating in the following locations: 1.2.1.1. The United States and the District of Columbia with the exception of Alaska and Hawaii -- 73 Joel W5ZN w