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41. Re: Topband: Close to earth Beverage. (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:47:17 -0700
I believe the advantage you are seeing with a low beverage is the reduction of pick-up from the feeds. When you think about it, the 8 foot vertical at each end of the higher beverage is 1/4 wave on 1
/archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00200.html (11,602 bytes)

42. Re: Topband: Close to earth Beverage. (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 10:48:57 -0700
Hello Sinisa, No I haven't, but reason tells me it would work just like the random wire I would throw out as a kid to connect to my BC and SW receivers; very well! My sloping terminations have always
/archives//html/Topband/2004-11/msg00203.html (10,031 bytes)

43. Topband: HS72B (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:20:15 -0700
I haven't been real diligent at the morning window for HS72 B due to other committments. I probably missed the best opportunity last week when the AZ staions made the trip. However, I did put in four
/archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00131.html (8,023 bytes)

44. Re: Topband: HS72B (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:30:22 -0700
73, Bill W4ZV This is very true on all counts. At XZ1N in 1998 we were at a hotel within the city limits of the Capital city of Yangon. The noise levels were high and no matter where I constructed Be
/archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00142.html (12,544 bytes)

45. Re: Topband: Stew Perry hours (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:04:29 -0700
Bob and all, My log from a year ago shows the following............. 0800-0900 = 25 Q's 0900-1000 = 13 Q's 1000-1100 = 10 Q's, one of which was an 80 point JA contact. For my QRP operation these cont
/archives//html/Topband/2004-12/msg00202.html (8,029 bytes)

46. Re: Topband: CQ 160m Contest REFLECTIONS (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:17:13 -0700
And a long way to go. At the bottom of the last cycle, '96 & '97, the sigs were "wall to wall" up to and slightly above 1900. This contest I heard lone signals spaced .5 kHz or more from 1850 up to 1
/archives//html/Topband/2005-01/msg00346.html (7,686 bytes)

47. Re: Topband: CQ 160M CW Contest As Seen at S9SS (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:24:49 -0700
Now that is elite company, especially considering all the other stations are 1,500 - 2,500 miles closer to EU than NA5NM. It is truly amazing to me, considering our POOR conditions to EU, that the NA
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00036.html (8,150 bytes)

48. Re: Re: Topband: toploading of shunt fed tower] (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 07:30:05 -0700
The question is >this: The tower supports a Tennadyne T-12 12 element log periodic antenna that is not >electrically connected to the mast and tower. Should I install a relay ..... Jim, I have done a
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00120.html (8,302 bytes)

49. Topband: CQ 160 SSB (score: 1)
Author: "Milt - N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:16:25 -0700
PLEASE READ!!!! I will be operating LP, 100 Watts, from a portable location in AZ, DM52, trying out a new location and a new TX antenna. I barely have a couple of quickie RX antennas so I hope I am n
/archives//html/Topband/2005-02/msg00237.html (8,046 bytes)

50. Re: Topband: Paths between FT5X and North America (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:21:34 -0700
Bill and all, The computation from my place is also 190 degrees, right over Antartica. Of course there has been no common darkness at this latitude so I haven't listened. I was thinking the same thin
/archives//html/Topband/2005-03/msg00249.html (8,475 bytes)

51. Re: Topband: "Is your feedline also an antenna?" (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:37:21 -0700
-- -- My experience is, this method is the simplest AND most effective. My problems have not been with AM broadcast but with noise sources associated with multi-service communications sites. Simply w
/archives//html/Topband/2005-10/msg00053.html (10,091 bytes)

52. Re: Topband: Reversible Two Wire Beverage (score: 1)
Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:11:10 -0700
W4ZV replied in part: -CUT- Herb, I agree with Bill, and will add the following. I have used the suggested fence wire both to extend # 12 Copperweld Beverages AND as complete 2-wire Beverages. In bo
/archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00053.html (8,403 bytes)

53. Re: Topband: Spotting (score: 1)
Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:25:02 -0700
My feelings exactly. I have not sought a single card for any contacts with many more than 100 DXCC countries. I have responded to multitudes of requests for those that seek such verification of conta
/archives//html/Topband/2005-11/msg00147.html (8,154 bytes)

54. Re: Topband: antenna pattern (score: 1)
Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 06:39:51 -0700
Hey, Bob. That is what it takes!! First the desire, and then the effort to actually do something to get on the air on Topband. It is the challenge of the low frequency, the vagaries of the propagatio
/archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00005.html (7,453 bytes)

55. Re: Topband: Conditions (score: 1)
Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:00:51 -0700
SNIP Eddy, As you have found out, the losses at 1.8 mHz are so minimal that long feedlines have very little overall loss. At the XZ0A DXped site on the island off the coast of Burma in 2000, we insta
/archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00120.html (7,731 bytes)

56. Topband: SPDxC -- Was: Dirty Harry and the DX window (score: 1)
Author: "Milt, N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:47:14 -0700
Excellent idea, Tom. Continue the current Stew Perry Distance Challenge (SPDC) as is and add a late winter (March Equinox or there abouts?) companion contest with the additional rule you propose. Nam
/archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00153.html (9,042 bytes)

57. Topband: SPDC (score: 1)
Author: "Milt - N5IA" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:22:36 -0700
I will be operating from the top of a 6,573' (2,003~M) mountain in DM52 as a QRP entry. I would appreciate any report of my signal compared to other signals from this area during the contest. Thanks,
/archives//html/Topband/2005-12/msg00209.html (7,117 bytes)

58. Re: Topband: Aluminum wire (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:24:22 -0700
wire for all kinds of antennas. Either split bolts or compression fittings I was thinking the same thing this morning, Pat. For those who don't know the acronyms of the electric power industry, ACSR
/archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00258.html (8,990 bytes)

59. Re: Topband: aluminum wire for antennas (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:57:46 -0700
utility poles? would stretch ot break. Copperweld has a thin layer of copper plating so the resistance would be high at 60hz. Mike, For the past nearly 40 years most, if not all, distribution and tra
/archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00259.html (8,973 bytes)

60. Re: Topband: Beverage question... (score: 1)
Author: "Milt Jensen" <n5ia@zia-connection.com>(by way of Bill Tippett<btippett@alum.mit.edu>)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:11:48 -0500
Since feedline losses/ft are neglible at Topband frequencies, I simply coil 30 turns of the feedline, 6 inches in diameter, at the Bev box feed point. Cheap, AND very effective. Milt, N5IA __________
/archives//html/Topband/2006-01/msg00260.html (6,967 bytes)


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