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281. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:59:11 -0400
I used RC2 and now, RC3 and there's no way in this software to make FT8 QSO's automatically. I don't get why so many people think it is a QSO machine that you let it go and it finds and makes QSO's f
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00189.html (8,981 bytes)

282. Re: Topband: FT8. (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:38:52 -0400
I have started a series of CQ and gotten bites but they do not complete. To verify this, I just now called CQ with FT8 and I got a reply from SM7OYP but my software did not reply. It will not reply u
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00196.html (11,163 bytes)

283. Topband: NCC-1 / NCC-2 (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:11:05 -0500
Folks, I'm somewhat on the fence regarding resolution to RFI I have thanks to AMTRAK and some RFI coming to the south of me. I live at the end of a dead end. There is a salt marsh behind me & 1 mile
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00054.html (8,797 bytes)

284. Re: Topband: [Amps] OT - Tubes for my QRP amplifier stage (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:38:46 -0500
Shoehorn. ;) Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00058.html (7,871 bytes)

285. Re: Topband: [Amps] OT - Tubes for my QRP amplifier stage (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:47:42 -0500
Sorry, got mis-directed here. My fault... Gary, KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00059.html (7,912 bytes)

286. Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Jack Leahy (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 11:40:17 -0500
Jeff, Thanks for the note. I got to thinking and just checked my log. VE1ZZ was my first DX on 160 and my 2nd 160 QSO; this on July 8, 1992. Though I'd been a ham 13 years, I'd never been on 160 til
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00065.html (7,817 bytes)

287. Re: Topband: CQ WW CW 160m observations (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:39:14 -0500
Hi Trevor, I'm in Connecticut. I didn't compete much, I was too busy otherwise this weekend. I ran full power to give out some Q's on 160. I heard many more EU than I could get to hear me. Some stati
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00123.html (8,531 bytes)

288. Re: Topband: FT8 on 160m (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:23:57 -0500
To me, the issue comes down to contained or not contained when it comes to signals on the bands. We're already contained by the limits of the band itself so there's effectively a finite space for eve
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00157.html (9,271 bytes)

289. Re: Topband: 160 inverted L radials question (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:23:57 -0500
Perhaps your solution might be a sloper, using the radial bed, instead of another INV-L? I used to have an INV-L at the edge of a salt marsh in Connecticut, with 1/2 the radials on the marsh & the re
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00158.html (9,325 bytes)

290. Re: Topband: FT8 qrm (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:17:01 -0500
To me, the reality is FT8 is no matter how someone spins it, using a tiny part of the spectrum. A reality is few there are using power with FT8, my Cook Island contact with FT8 was with something lik
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00193.html (11,087 bytes)

291. Topband: Just not the results I'm used to. (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:36:57 -0500
I'm just not getting the results I had when the 160M antenna was put up some 7-8 years ago, not as good as last year either. I tried running QRP on 160 this evening, lots of pre-contest activity and
/archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00003.html (7,080 bytes)

292. Topband: ARRL 160 (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2017 16:25:26 -0500
This is the first major contest that I have taken part in a while, at least to the extent I actually put a real effort into it. Its taken a bit to get back in the game after my friend Pat became a SK
/archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00020.html (8,382 bytes)

293. Topband: Long sloper (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:05:53 -0500
I just installed a replacement wire for the 160 sloper. I made it 129' as was the earlier one that came down in the winds. I have to use a spud gun to get fishing line over the tree tops and where th
/archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00060.html (7,188 bytes)

294. Re: Topband: Long sloper (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:44:30 -0500
George, Jim and all those who sent wonderful direct to me replies on this; It's touching to ask a question and get such helpful replies from so many. I appreciate it. The long and short of what I see
/archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00065.html (12,567 bytes)

295. Re: Topband: W7EJ/CN2R SK (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:57:09 -0500
It is always especially sad when one of our own passes. 73 OM, de KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2017-12/msg00091.html (7,083 bytes)

296. Topband: Mixed elevated and ground located radials? (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 15:08:36 -0500
Now that I have both a HI-Z circle 8 & a triangular array, along with the K3s, I can hear most stations coming in around here. About the only thing that will help me Rx wise at this time would be a b
/archives//html/Topband/2018-01/msg00269.html (8,078 bytes)

297. Re: Topband: Recent Article on a 160M Vertical Delta Loop? (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:23:30 -0500
I did not see the article but I had just that in the 90's. I had moved from a condo where I explored copper pipe and shortened octagon loops. Remembering my experimenting when the now Ex & I moved to
/archives//html/Topband/2018-02/msg00047.html (9,424 bytes)

298. Re: Topband: TN5R to start tonight on TB (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:36:39 -0400
Jose, Thank you for the new one on 160. Your signals were very strong at 00:05Z in CT, some QSB but Q5. Have fun! 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.co
/archives//html/Topband/2018-03/msg00030.html (8,135 bytes)

299. Re: Topband: Laser Com introducing a breakthrough Top Band antenna at Dayton (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 14:10:13 -0400
That's making light out of a difficult problem. ;) 73, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
/archives//html/Topband/2018-04/msg00028.html (11,841 bytes)

300. Re: Topband: Straws in the wind, continued or, "Where's the DX?" (score: 1)
Author: "Gary Smith" <Gary@ka1j.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 18:43:58 -0400
My 2 cents (& my 2 cents are surely worth more to me than anyone else). this is a licensed sport, I see it in some ways like fishing which is also a licensed sport; some catch and keep, some catch an
/archives//html/Topband/2018-04/msg00044.html (11,351 bytes)


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