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41. Re: Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:33:37 -0700; Jose, First thank you for the QSO. You are one of the few Europeans I have worked on 160 with my very modest station in southern Arizona and are a new one for me. I think the that the key here is "a; /archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00042.html (10,373 bytes)
42. Topband: Anyone else hear these? (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:19:19 -0700; From time to time I'm hearing some non-ham stations transmitting on 1823 and 1829 KHz. These signals typically pop up as steady carriers then identify in Morse and disappear. I've heard IDs of 4OMD; /archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00075.html (7,461 bytes)
43. Re: Topband: Anyone else hear these? (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 13:53:43 -0700; Thanks for all of the replies. Seems I'd heard these mentioned someplace but didn't put two and two together. Ideas? Wes N7WS _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.co; /archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00080.html (7,649 bytes)
44. Re: Topband: Anyone else hear these? (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:23:04 -0700; It's amazing how much information you can find once you know what you are looking for. Until then, not so much. I tried searching for "beacons", etc, with no luck. Hence the question. N7WS There ar; /archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00084.html (8,912 bytes)
45. Re: Topband: WKYW on 1810kc (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:21:05 -0700; Yeah but, do they QSL? On 1/10/2018 4:14 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: I just sent them an email. Maybe others can also. Boy, whatever problem they have results in a good 160m signal. Tnx all for replies.; /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00074.html (9,062 bytes)
46. Re: Topband: Band Open - But No Sunrise Peak (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:18:43 -0700; Although my first ever top-band QSO was in 1959 and was a DX station (VE7) it's only been in the last year or so that I've been semi-seriously working the band. The impetus being a 9th band DXCC. A; /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00125.html (12,393 bytes)
47. Re: Topband: VU2GSM webSDR use (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:31:23 -0700; There has been some related discussion on the Clublog group. I'm 76 years old (this is my 60th year in ham radio) and two away (SV/A and FR/G) from top of the Honor Roll. I don't think I'll make it; /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00162.html (16,252 bytes)
48. Re: Topband: VU2GSM webSDR use (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:21:51 -0700; Fortunately, WAS rules are different. If they weren't you could work all states on10 GHz just by driving or flying from state to state. If DXCC worked this way there would be a lot fewer guys on the; /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00171.html (9,335 bytes)
49. Re: Topband: 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:21:09 -0700; Wednesday would work for me. That said, a few thoughts: 1: "right across America" includes US east coast and northern tier stations and those of us another hop or two further from you in the far sou; /archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00291.html (8,412 bytes)
50. Re: Topband: Working dupes on a band (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:35:01 -0700; Actually, there is QRM. In fact I gave up FT8 after about a hundred Qs after trying to work a nameless west African who started getting clobbered mid QSO. I just kept repeating reports hoping that; /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00026.html (8,718 bytes)
51. Re: Topband: Conditions on 160m for ARRL Contest (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:58:57 -0700; A casual S&P effort here. Worked only one EU (LZ2WO) on Saturday night local time. Saturday night conditions were better, but signals were well down on what they have been for the past few weeks. Ho; /archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00119.html (7,863 bytes)
52. Re: Topband: Excessive noise on beverages (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 23:07:29 -0700; Dave, First I see by my log that we've had two QSOs--35 years apart-- one on 2-meter EME and one on TB. I'm no Beverage expert--antenna Beverage that is-- but it seems to me that shortening the west; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00016.html (11,524 bytes)
53. Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:21:44 -0700; Listening in AZ. nil so far. 0300Z I'll be on around 1828kHz from about 0000Z . . . Hope you'll be on too 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_top; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00076.html (7,866 bytes)
54. Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:49:50 -0700; Worked PJ5/SP2GCJ @0315 for a new one for me. OA4TT would have been a new one too (I'm a newby). He was quite strong but the one time he replied to me he didn't have my complete call, missing the; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00079.html (9,087 bytes)
55. Re: Topband: Wednesday 160m DX Activity Night (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:25:33 -0700; Hi Dave, Although I made my first 160 QSO using a DX100 and a re-tuned car radio for a receiver in 1959 (a VE7 no less) I've not really been a regular on topband. Last year it dawned on me that if I; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00083.html (13,509 bytes)
56. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:45:09 -0700; My first 67 entities worked on 160 were with an inverted-vee with apex at about 45 feet and the ends about 5 feet high. Actually a few were with the antenna cut for 80 and using a tuner. I couldn't; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00104.html (8,646 bytes)
57. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:11:40 -0700; We live in two countries separated by a common language. In the states, we consider any wire in a "v" shape suspended upside down to be...wait for it... an inverted vee, regardless of height as far a; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00120.html (8,629 bytes)
58. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:38:21 -0700; Could be. An effective balun on 160 isn't trivial, but then the questions are at least twofold. 1) How ineffective is it and what are the relative currents on the intended radiator compared to the in; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00121.html (9,476 bytes)
59. Re: Topband: Straws in the Wind ....A 160m Dx'ing Sea Change is Upon us! (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:54:06 -0700; I've "made a contact", if you want to call it that, with that robot twice now. That's about the only use I have for FT8; making contacts that shouldn't count for anything, although, I think ARRL acc; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00186.html (9,599 bytes)
60. Re: Topband: low inv-vee (score: 1): Author: Wes Stewart <wes_n7ws@triconet.org>; Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:29:08 -0700; 1) I have yet to (and likely never will) install an RX only antenna. Hence, I receive on the same inverted-L I transmit on. It's been my experience that I still hear better than I get out with 500; /archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00190.html (9,204 bytes)

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