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101. Topband: Fw: Patience in ARRL 160 Contest (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:01:24 -0400
I would have to agree with Herb 100%, in fact, I believe in this past ARRL 160, Herb got me as "VE9??" and I sent AA AA (maybe I sent AA 3 times, I don't recall) and he came right back with VE9AA 5NN
/archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00146.html (8,746 bytes)

102. Re: Topband: DX window (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 17:36:23 -0400
Why don't folks ever name names? (callsigns) Are we such a "PC" group of humans worldwide these days that we should not risk stepping on someones' toes dare we insult them or shame them into obeying
/archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00237.html (9,021 bytes)

103. Topband: Thanks for the Wood ! (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:41:03 -0400
Plaque arrived today in the middle of a snowstorm. Looks very smart indeed. Thanks to Lew, Tree, The (not so) Boring Gang and of course Stew himself, may he RIP. dit dit, Mike VE9AA _________________
/archives//html/Topband/2012-12/msg00523.html (7,054 bytes)

104. Re: Topband: CQ160CW Exchange for VO1 & VO2? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:56:01 -0400
Tree: Can you pse forward to the list? My msg's aren't making it. == To further muddy the waters, contest organizers (not just this contest) seem to sometimes think there are no VE1's in NB or PEI, w
/archives//html/Topband/2013-01/msg00186.html (8,205 bytes)

105. Re: Topband: Modeling the proverbial "vertical on a beach" (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 20:10:45 -0300
I can only provide anecdotal evidence. In July 1997 we did CY9AA and our 160m antenna turned out to be a 130' wire, suspended by a large helium/mylar balloon. We mounted the base in the rocks right a
/archives//html/Topband/2014-08/msg00085.html (9,368 bytes)

106. Re: Topband: tool for install radials (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:11:23 -0400
Jorge, The VE9 (NB) way of doing in-ground (and other) radials: I made a tool for installing radials in my VERY rocky soil and it likely took me less than an hour to get it up and running. I had my l
/archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00177.html (11,717 bytes)

107. Re: Topband: Unknown Pulse Signal Wiping out 1900-1925 kHz (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:16:46 -0400
At about 30 mins past SS here in FN66 (s. central NB) it's about 20dB over 9, no QSB. I did listen about 1.5 hrs before SS and did not hear it. It's from about 1900-1930kHz easily. Unfortunately, no
/archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00191.html (8,823 bytes)

108. Re: Topband: That 1.9 MHz radar signal... (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:19:08 -0400
We may be able to exclude Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or PEI as it isn't being heard on groundwave by ve9aa who is the middle of Nova Scotia. Correct me if I am wrong please. == OUCH ! Every Canadian
/archives//html/Topband/2014-12/msg00206.html (8,344 bytes)

109. Topband: K1N what time are they QRV on top? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 18:03:36 -0400
OK, finally, Friday has arrived and although I have a new one on 14MHz from the car (on my way to work) , I don't yet have it on TOP. My house radio has been off since the SSB Sprint. Are they follow
/archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00279.html (7,329 bytes)

110. Re: Topband: K1N what time are they QRV on top? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 08:07:53 -0400
Thanks everyone for your advice on times. I had not been paying attn. at all this week due to work & home responsibilities. I tried late last evening and although they were an honest S9 here, the p/u
/archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00298.html (9,792 bytes)

111. Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:39:46 -0400
de VE9AA I know inverted L's have been hashed out quite a few times on this list, and I have gleaned some knowledge. At my previous QTH I had a 5/16th WL one which seemed to work tons better than my
/archives//html/Topband/2015-02/msg00771.html (8,723 bytes)

112. Re: Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 15:19:51 -0400
24 hours and even not one comment? What if I had a BOG for RX, buried, uninsulated radials and had worked K1N with it during my move into a Brave New World? Maybe I really should've said I was rentin
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00021.html (10,148 bytes)

113. Re: Topband: Inverted L height vs. length. (score: 1)
Author: <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 12:03:39 -0400
Hi & Thanks Yuri. That's good info to know. I had wondered about that actually... I may be able to get the hz portion over to a far away tree, just slightly lower than the 35' peak of the first tree,
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00037.html (12,755 bytes)

114. Topband: Fair Contest? It's the STEW PERRY ! (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:55:53 -0300
OK, Let's talk fair. For many years I was pretty much completely off HF (nevermind contesting) however I've only ever missed a few STEWS..why? Well, being a long time VHFer, I was amazed that an (ahe
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00127.html (8,517 bytes)

115. Re: Topband: VE1PZ (score: 1)
Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:17:42 -0300
VE1PZ is a good friend of mine based out of Pictou, NS. ( I say based as at times he's had different houses and cottages in the region) He's never operated remote that I know of. Doug is a stand up g
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00191.html (7,307 bytes)

116. Topband: ZS6BKW(G5RV) on 160m? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:57:18 -0300
I might have a chance to operate from a portable location this summer for a contest or two but at the location they have no antennas, nor is there room for any huge vertical, inverted L, guys ropes e
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00203.html (8,669 bytes)

117. Re: Topband: ZS6BKW(G5RV) on 160m? (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:12:11 -0300
Marsh, Kevin, Jim, everyone This is great info. Hey, thanks guys,.////As I read these comments, I am now wondering if there is a magic length of coax, that attaches to the 40 of 450 ladder line that
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00209.html (13,753 bytes)

118. Topband: ZS6BKW (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 15:44:10 -0300
Thanks very much Marsh. Obviously you have some serious antenna modeling skills and I do thank you for that second analysis. If I may indulge you for one last request (tweak) pse? If you could keep e
/archives//html/Topband/2015-03/msg00222.html (7,144 bytes)

119. Re: Topband: verticals by the sea (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 12:17:48 -0300
Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE by the sea? Didn't I read inverted VEEs had a lot of vertical polarization? Reason I ask is I plan to do the IOTA contest on an Island in NB or NS and
/archives//html/Topband/2015-04/msg00044.html (7,293 bytes)

120. Topband: Verticals on the beach (score: 1)
Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 19:23:25 -0300
I am quite enjoying this discussion, even though some of it is anecdotal and some is theoretical/mathematical. Are there any readers of this list, who, say, has a home (or did a portable op) whereby
/archives//html/Topband/2015-04/msg00076.html (8,158 bytes)


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