Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 264, Issue 6

[Richard McLachlan]

The weather here in the UK has been dreadful with winds of up to 90 mph. My antennas are all lowered down and I imagine that is the case for lots of other ops as well. Enjoy the contest.

73
Richard G3OQT

> On 7 Dec 2024, at 17:00, topband-request at contesting.com wrote:
> 
> Send Topband mailing list submissions to
>    topband at contesting.com
> 
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>    http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>    topband-request at contesting.com
> 
> You can reach the person managing the list at
>    topband-owner at contesting.com
> 
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Topband digest..."
> 
> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>   1. Re: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages (Rick Kunath)
>   2. Re: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages (Martin Kratoska)
>   3. Re: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages (Rick Kunath)
>   4. ARRL 160 (Jim Brown)
>   5. Night 1 of the 160 contest (Mark Lunday)
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:04:13 -0500
> From: Rick Kunath <k9ao at yahoo.com>
> To: Bill Conwell <bill at conwellpdx.com>, topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages
> Message-ID: <90684420-2bf0-4d0f-b53c-e6da82968651 at yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> Bill,
> 
> If you have an NEC file of your model I'd be glad to model it on AN-SOF
> Professional. That does work very well on antennas near and even on the
> ground.
> 
> Rick Kunath, K9AO
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 19:20:07 +0100
> From: Martin Kratoska <martin at ok1rr.com>
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages
> Message-ID: <a33e9a5b-42ec-4dc0-84e6-4511e7f9258f at ok1rr.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> Rick K9AO,
> do you have some Loop-On-Ground Antenna models and/or BOG?
> 
> 73,
> Martin, OK1RR
> 
> Dne 06. 12. 24 v 19:04 Rick Kunath via Topband napsal(a):
>> Bill,
>> 
>> If you have an NEC file of your model I'd be glad to model it on AN-SOF
>> Professional. That does work very well on antennas near and even on the
>> ground.
>> 
>> Rick Kunath, K9AO
>> 
>> _________________
>> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 17:03:43 -0500
> From: Rick Kunath <k9ao at yahoo.com>
> To: martin at ok1rr.com, topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Parallelogram echelon array of beverages
> Message-ID: <de530cda-be41-4977-820a-05f6ec1e3357 at yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> 
> What sorts of things were you looking for Martin?
> 
> Rick Kunath, K9AO
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 15:14:31 -0800
> From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: 'TopBand' <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Topband: ARRL 160
> Message-ID:
>    <1835469d-a219-4c2b-acb4-6f659b0b0c78 at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
> 
> I'm not hearing a thing or seeing any traces in waterfall from my QTH
> near San Francisco. Usually I'd be working 500-800 miles at the top of
> the contest.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 05:58:57 +0000
> From: Mark Lunday <wd4elg at outlook.com>
> To: "Topband at contesting.com" <topband at contesting.com>
> Subject: Topband: Night 1 of the 160 contest
> Message-ID:
>    <SA2PR02MB7658B069674ED71859C6406295322 at SA2PR02MB7658.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>
>    
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> Not much to get excited about.  Turned on the rig at 0200 UTC and went to bed at 0600 UTC.
> 
> Worked G6XX, S59ZZ, OM3GI, KH6AQ, ZF9CW with 100 watts and inverted L.  HiZ 4-square for receiving, band was not noisy but signals were not strong.
> 
> Several DX spotted that I did not hear: LY7M, OH0Z, G4IRN.  I did not notice a sunrise signal peak for EU.
> 
> Ops were very courteous and disciplined when calling DX, very typical of topband behavior...nice to hear.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
> Greensboro, NC  FM06be
> wd4elg at arrl.net<mailto:wd4elg at arrl.net>
> http://wd4elg.blogspot.com
> SKCC #16439  FISTS #17972  QRP ARCI #16497
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Subject: Digest Footer
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Topband mailing list
> Topband at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> End of Topband Digest, Vol 264, Issue 6
> ***************************************