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1. Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Shoppa, Tim" <tshoppa@wmata.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:07:55 +0000; Anybody on this list have a Rhombic for 160M? W1AW used to use one for bulletins and code practice on 160M but I think it came down years ago (1989?) I seem to recall pics in CQ of a big California d; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00069.html (11,822 bytes)
2. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:27:05 -0400; Anybody on this list have a Rhombic for 160M? W1AW used to use one for bulletins and code practice on 160M but I think it came down years ago (1989?) I seem to recall pics in CQ of a big California d; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00072.html (9,025 bytes)
3. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Jeff Blaine" <jeff@ac0c.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:33:49 -0500; Tom, Why? The same reason guys put up quads. They LOOK very cool! Imagine standing on one end of the rhombic and saying "well, you can't see the end of the antenna without the binoculars - but it's o; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00073.html (9,556 bytes)
4. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: HAROLD SMITH JR <w0rihps@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:36:00 -0700 (PDT); I can't imagine why anyone would have one today. Here is an analaysis of Rhomics. http://www.w8ji.com/rhombic_antennas.htm 73 Tom Years ago, W6AM had a "Rhombic Farm" near San Francisco. Ian, VK3MO; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00074.html (9,205 bytes)
5. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:41:16 -0500; If we want an antenna just for looks, might as well make it all out of a non-conductor such as plastic rope. :-) Seriously, Tom is right. Take time to study his rhombic page. However, as one wise man; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00076.html (8,978 bytes)
6. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:46:45 -0500; There were a lot of tall tales told about W6AM's rhombics. Don't base a desire to have a rhombic on those fables. And that's where the term "California Kilowatt" came from. I'm told his rhombics were; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00077.html (8,368 bytes)
7. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: donovanf@starpower.net; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:40:01 -0400 (EDT); Rhombics definitely look cool, but modern antennas definitely outperform them My favorites: - four stacked rhombics, (two wide, two high) over a salt marsh in ZC4 this array was replaced by a curtain; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00078.html (10,080 bytes)
8. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:46:13 -0500; This is interesting! You did all this, Frank? It would be fascinating to hear details of how all this worked, especially the curtain array. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _________________ Topband Reflector; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00079.html (8,976 bytes)
9. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Jeff Blaine" <jeff@ac0c.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:39:04 -0500; I did not say it was *only* for looks. It "also" happens to look amazing. If you are at the ham club and you said "hea I just hung up a 160m rhombic" - the next comment guys would say is "wow, I woul; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00083.html (10,098 bytes)
10. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Tom W8JI" <w8ji@w8ji.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:09:52 -0400; And that's where the term "California Kilowatt" came from. I'm told his rhombics were loud mostly for that reason. I forget what tubes were in his amp, but they sure weren't 6V6s. ;-) When I was bumm; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00084.html (9,298 bytes)
11. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:42:19 -0500; Carl, I based what I said partly on your statements at http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php?297870-How-to-design-rhombic-antenna . Looking back at that page, I see that perhaps I misunderstood your s; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00087.html (9,926 bytes)
12. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:38:23 -0500; Could be. Here's some photos of Don's station, FWIW: http://www.qsl.net/ne6i/w6am/shack.html . Alpha amplifiers, and huge tall racks that look like they might require one of those Alphas to drive the; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00089.html (9,743 bytes)
13. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Tom Haavisto <kamham69@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:33:20 -0400; W0AIH has a Rhombic, and it is pretty amazing. Mostly used on 20. Its quieter than the stack, and its louder. Steerable, but NOT rotateable :-) Installing one is NOT a simple task. Took Paul a few tr; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00091.html (14,057 bytes)
14. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>; Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:23:46 -0400; W0BTU: rhombics. Such as: "The W6AM station was legendary around the world. Don could beat you in a pileup for some obscure African station no matter what band, and even if you were on the east coast; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00094.html (9,221 bytes)
15. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Michael Tope <W4EF@dellroy.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:53:23 -0700; W6AM's rhombics. Such as: "The W6AM station was legendary around the world. Don could beat you in a pileup for some obscure African station no matter what band, and even if you were on the east coast; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00098.html (8,313 bytes)
16. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Mike Cizek" <mikew3mc@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:19:45 -0400; When I was first discovering DXing, I very clearly remember a wise and seasoned DXer in the Chicago area telling me: "Any amplifier that you can pick up, is not worth picking up." 73, Mike Cizek W3MC; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00099.html (7,132 bytes)
17. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Bob Kupps <n6bk@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:20:41 -0700 (PDT); W6AM was a fabulous ham station and a great ham. With a web site like yours I wouldn't be accusing others of over hyping. RIP Don. W0BTU: rhombics. Such as: "The W6AM station was legendary around the; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00105.html (10,014 bytes)
18. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 19:58:40 -0500; ?????????????? _________________ Topband Reflector; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00106.html (7,035 bytes)
19. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "Carl" <km1h@jeremy.mv.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:46:18 -0400; Anybody on this list have a Rhombic for 160M? W1AW used to use one for bulletins and code practice on 160M but I think it came down years ago (1989?) They come in here literally against the pin which; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00109.html (13,067 bytes)
20. Re: Topband: 160M Rhombics (score: 1): Author: "ZR" <zr@jeremy.mv.com>; Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:23:19 -0400; When I was floating around in the Med for the USN in the early 60's, the bases I visited were all using rhombics pointed at DC mounted on 80-120' wooden poles. These consistently outperformed a 20M 6; /archives//html/Topband/2013-07/msg00110.html (11,844 bytes)

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