- 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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