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1. Topband: G3YRO Just Joined ! (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:31:17 +0100
Hi All Despite being a keen 160m DX-er for the past 45 years, I've just finally joined this Reflector ! So I'm looking forward to reading 160m related posts. What made me decide to join was reading t
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00243.html (7,548 bytes)

2. Topband: future of ham radio (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:42:38 +0100
I appreciate the point about trying to get youngsters interested in the hobby . . . However, the trouble with the computer-based Digital modes is that there is no SKILL involved in having a contact -
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00264.html (7,474 bytes)

3. Topband: Conditions This Weekend (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:46:46 +0100
Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX amongst all the strong European stations . . . Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though I'm sure all the big
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00265.html (6,805 bytes)

4. Topband: Conditions Last Night (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:48:19 +0100
Well, I spent a few hours on the CQ WW last night, trying to pick out DX amongst all the strong European stations . . . Didn't hear a single North American station ! (even though I'm sure all the big
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00266.html (6,381 bytes)

5. Topband: Common mode current and QRN on 160m (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:29:16 +0100
I had never used baluns on any antennas for 45 years . . . But about a year ago I made a couple of ferrite choke baluns . . . one for my 160m dipole, one for my W3DZZ, just to see if made any differe
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00286.html (7,058 bytes)

6. Topband: Conditions improving (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 06:33:58 -0500
Yes, managed to work a few more stateside stations on SSB in the CQ WW contest last night. But because of the clocks going forward to GMT, woke up an hour after sunrise, so missed checking the band t
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00296.html (6,591 bytes)

7. Topband: No American activity (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 06:23:09 -0500
There are usually several of us Europeans on at around our Sunrise (about 0630Z) . . . But even though the band is open (as you can see on RBN), no stations about to work ! Roger G3YRO ______________
/archives//html/Topband/2017-10/msg00301.html (6,848 bytes)

8. Topband: 160m Vertical matching Help (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:53:17 -0500
Hi Trevor Read Joe, W4TV's answer again ! The coil should be whatever inductance you need to resonate your slightly short antenna . . . then you can use that coil as an auto-transformer to get a good
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00008.html (7,682 bytes)

9. Topband: No American activity (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:43:50 -0500
Well as our Sunrise seems to be too late in the night for many people, I came on at 0400 last night . . . surely that's not too late over there? The band was clearly open (got a +48dB RBN report from
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00012.html (7,425 bytes)

10. Topband: Good Conditions Last Night (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 05:19:24 -0500
Really good to hear 160m in good shape last night! Worked nearly 40 stations on CW, including across to Arizona and several in Texas, most of whom answered my CQ DX calls. (might have worked more if
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00045.html (6,613 bytes)

11. Topband: Good long path opening from VK6 to NA (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:49:42 -0500
Hi Steve Are you ever around at our UK sunrise? (currently around 06.30Z) This is the best time for me to work VK/ZL 73 Roger G3YRO _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contestin
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00050.html (6,398 bytes)

12. Topband: Change in 160m conditions (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:01:29 -0500
It seems to me that DX conditions have been pretty poor for the past 10 years on 160m . . . But apart from generally being poor (even when the band is open), there is something strange I have noticed
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00051.html (6,871 bytes)

13. Topband: VE1ZZ Jack Leahy (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 04:19:03 -0500
Many thanks for the info Jeff . . . I had wondered where he was. Like others, I have worked Jack countless times over the decades on 160m. Always a great signal, and always takes the trouble to give
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00075.html (6,430 bytes)

14. Topband: 160m magnetic loop for receive (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:04:48 -0500
Hi John I built a 6ft diameter 4-turn 160m receiving loop a few weeks ago - did you see my write-up on qrz.com? It's installed up in my loft, pointing E-W, and is varicap tuned (sending DC down the c
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00117.html (8,018 bytes)

15. Topband: 160m magnetic loop for receive (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:17:28 -0500
I meant to add that as well as having a better signal/noise ratio than my main antenna, it's particularly useful in a Contest, like this weekend's CQWW. It makes it easier to pick out the DX signals
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00118.html (7,290 bytes)

16. Topband: BOG pre amp info ? (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:37:05 -0500
That's a nice cheap board, and worth using considering it has relay switching too . . . However, the circuit seems odd . . . I used transformers in and out on my Loop Preamp, to give a match to 50 oh
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00119.html (6,750 bytes)

17. Topband: BOG pre amp info ? (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:47:16 -0500
Hi Don Gosh, really? Looking at the circuit, and given the resistors used, I would have thought the input impedance would be about 800 ohms . . . And hard to estimate the output impedance, but wouldn
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00124.html (9,249 bytes)

18. Topband: CQ WW CW 160m observations (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:56:37 -0500
Trevor I popped on a few times on 160 over the contest weekend . . . but agree, conditions were rather poor . . . I worked pretty much the same NA stations as you. I actually heard quite a few more U
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00125.html (7,600 bytes)

19. Topband: CQWW 160m observations (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:46:36 -0500
As I mentioned before, the problem that I found was that there weren't many NA stations calling CQ. I heard quite a few calling EU stations, but that was on THEIR frequency. I didn't want to put out
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00205.html (7,154 bytes)

20. Topband: FT8 qrm & Bandplanning History on 160m (score: 1)
Author: "Roger Kennedy" <roger@wessexproductions.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:00:33 -0500
Hi Jeff Agree with most of your comments . . . However - if there was a 160m CW sub-band, it might be a RULE in the USA . . . but it wouldn't apply elsewhere . . . So what would be the point?! I thin
/archives//html/Topband/2017-11/msg00207.html (6,900 bytes)


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