Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc.
On 12/19/2012 2:50 AM, Raoul Coetzee wrote: Like most of us I have been reading and trying to absorb the excellent technical information in this group, but really, personal attacks and comments should be avoided. Or is this simply normal, a reflection of what is happening on the bands too? I hope this comes to an end, I would hate to unsubscribe. Will the 160m gentlemen please stand up, if there are any left? Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy new Year! Raoul ZS1REC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell Raoul, There is a saying in the islands that you can't put two man crabs in the same hole. 73, Herb, KV4FZ ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
And while you're at it, why shouldn't SO Assisted be separated from Multi-single? That is a relic of the earliest days of packet, and hasn't made sense for at least 20 years. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com. For spots, please go to your favorite ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node. On 12/18/2012 6:26 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 12/18/2012 3:11 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: ARRL 160 meter contest is based on *Sections*. Only in part -- it's also based on DX entities as multipliers, and US/VE stations get 2.5X the point credit for a QSO with a DX station. It makes no earthly sense to change the rules for one or two sections after thirty plus years of the contest. If the Rules are poorly conceived (and they are), it certainly does make sense to change them. But the needed changes go far beyond equalizing KP2 and VP2V -- the Rules give Zone 5 a 10:1 scoring advantage over Zone 3 (and about half that over the Midwest and Great Plains), and make the contest so boring for Zone 3 that most of us avoid it. 73, Jim K9YC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: Missing Contest Listings - Contest Update for 19 Dec
An unfortunate cut-and-paste misfire resulted in omitting the RAC Winter Contest and Stew Perry TBDC contests from the lists of upcoming events - I've corrected the online version. The ARRL Letter should have the correct information when it goes out later this week - apologies. 73, Ward N0AX Mis-editor, ARRL Contest Update ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: Thanks for the Wood !
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 ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: WTB:HiZ 4 Squere RX Setup
Hi allwant to buy a 4 Squere rx setup... If you have one and woud like to sale it let me know pse Vy 73 Frank dl8yhrfr...@aol.com ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
Maybe because XE is in NA while Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela are not. And maybe, Mexican states are as important to Mexicans as US States and VE provinces are to their northern neighbors. http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namaps.htm Finding OX is considered a part of NA was an education. 73 Art K6XT~~ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. ARRL, GMCC, CW OPS, NAQCC ARRL TA On 12/18/2012 9:29 PM, W4TV wrote: There are those who don't like CQ's format, those who don't like the new ARRL 10 Meter format with Mexican States (why Mexico and not Brazil or Argentina, or Chile, or Venezuela?) - ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc.
Thanks Raoul for the excellent posting. I have to admit to coming close to having to put the list back into full moderation. Let's clean it up guys. If you don't believe we can by civil here and discuss technical subjects, then you will find your posts taking longer to show up. Tree On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Raoul Coetzee raoulcoet...@yahoo.comwrote: Like most of us I have been reading and trying to absorb the excellent technical information in this group, but really, personal attacks and comments should be avoided. Or is this simply normal, a reflection of what is happening on the bands too? I hope this comes to an end, I would hate to unsubscribe. Will the 160m gentlemen please stand up, if there are any left? Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy new Year! Raoul ZS1REC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc.
Hello Raoul, Yes there are a few 160 meter gentlemen and gentlegirls still left. If you notice, the flaming remarks mostly are made by one person. Several years ago he was banned from this reflector. I do have to agree that it really gets disgusting. Thank god there is a delete key on every keyboard. Wishing You and Your family a VERY Merry Christms and Prosperous New Year. Price W0RI and trustee of W0CKC Club Station: St. Louis Lowbaders Club Like most of us I have been reading and trying to absorb the excellent technical information in this group, but really, personal attacks and comments should be avoided. Or is this simply normal, a reflection of what is happening on the bands too? I hope this comes to an end, I would hate to unsubscribe. Will the 160m gentlemen please stand up, if there are any left? Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy new Year! Raoul ZS1REC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc.
Hello all, yes it's always that person and I am used to delete all his postings with Mailwasher before entering ! 73 Luis IV3PRK - Original Message - From: HAROLD SMITH JR w0ri...@sbcglobal.net To: Raoul Coetzee raoulcoet...@yahoo.com; Top Band List List topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:59 PM Subject: Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc. Hello Raoul, Yes there are a few 160 meter gentlemen and gentlegirls still left. If you notice, the flaming remarks mostly are made by one person. Several years ago he was banned from this reflector. I do have to agree that it really gets disgusting. Thank god there is a delete key on every keyboard. Wishing You and Your family a VERY Merry Christms and Prosperous New Year. Price W0RI and trustee of W0CKC Club Station: St. Louis Lowbaders Club Like most of us I have been reading and trying to absorb the excellent technical information in this group, but really, personal attacks and comments should be avoided. Or is this simply normal, a reflection of what is happening on the bands too? I hope this comes to an end, I would hate to unsubscribe. Will the 160m gentlemen please stand up, if there are any left? Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy new Year! Raoul ZS1REC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: LoTW, Ground mounted 1/2 wave etc.
KM1H should be banned once again. Dave WX7G On Dec 19, 2012 9:59 AM, HAROLD SMITH JR w0ri...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hello Raoul, Yes there are a few 160 meter gentlemen and gentlegirls still left. If you notice, the flaming remarks mostly are made by one person. Several years ago he was banned from this reflector. I do have to agree that it really gets disgusting. Thank god there is a delete key on every keyboard. Wishing You and Your family a VERY Merry Christms and Prosperous New Year. Price W0RI and trustee of W0CKC Club Station: St. Louis Lowbaders Club Like most of us I have been reading and trying to absorb the excellent technical information in this group, but really, personal attacks and comments should be avoided. Or is this simply normal, a reflection of what is happening on the bands too? I hope this comes to an end, I would hate to unsubscribe. Will the 160m gentlemen please stand up, if there are any left? Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy new Year! Raoul ZS1REC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
As Joe stated, if the rules do not appeal to you, don't operate. This is why I haven't operated in the ARRL 160 for years as it really is a 160M SS, and I've never found the normal SS to be all that interesting. There is always the SPDC, the CQ 160, etc. The only one I normally spend any time operating in is the CQ 160 CW. 73, Stew K3ND From: Joe Subich, W4TV li...@subich.com To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:11 PM Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More ARRL 160 meter contest is based on *Sections*. KP2 and KP4 are *SECTIONS* as are South Florida, North Florida, West Central Florida and any other section. It makes no earthly sense to change the rules for one or two sections after thirty plus years of the contest. If you don't like the rules, find a different contest. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: KAZ Antenna
Someone, named Charles, asked me if I could point him toward information on theKAZ antenna. I have lost, misplaced or accidentally deleted your e-mail. Please ask again, and I'll try to find some links to get you started. Otherwise, I will just post them here. The KAZ antenna is a terminated loop of modest size, with a cardioid pattern that enables one to null offending noise or interference sources. It is a triangle with a horizontal bottom wire, so it can be hung from a single support, or even be mast mounted and rotated. The termination is around 900 ohms and you might need to wind your own 9:1 or 16:1 matching transformer. I wound mine on a two-hole balun ferrite core, and it worked well. The KAZ receiving loop is related to the flag and pennant loops, and the K9AY loop. Please send again - I apologize for my error and the inconvenience. Regards, Charlie, K4OTV ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
On 12/19/2012 9:34 AM, GALE STEWARD wrote: As Joe stated, if the rules do not appeal to you, don't operate. That's a favored operator's view of things. There are, for all practical purposes, three major 160M contests (ARRL, and the two CQWW events), and their rules all strongly favor the Atlantic basin contesting establishment. If you're in that favored region, you're generally happy with the rules, and if you're not in that region you find the contests unappealing. The only 160M contest with decent rules for everyone is the Stew Perry, but it has, unfortunately, not attracted the critical mass participation needed to make it fun either -- even with a very good station, you run out of stations to work pretty early in the evening. I'm an ARRL member, and a CQ Magazine subscriber. These contests are being administered by entities that I support, and I have a reasonable expectation that they should fairly support my interests too. Sadly, they are the only game in town, so if you've built a nice 160M station and want it exercise it, it's your only choice. Imagine owning a nice car, and the only paved roads are 2,000 miles away! 73, Jim K9YC ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: KAZ Antenna
It is a different name for a Terminated Delta Loop- Earl K6SE developed the recieiving Delta Loop for 160 meters, June 1, 2000 He was too late to get it into his printing of Flag and Pennant Antennas in QST July 2000. Designed for best F/B on 160 meters and zero recactance at 1.830 MHZ. It requires only one support at the top of the loop. The antenna was used by FO0AAA very successfully I had an antenna trasformer customer who built one recently and reported much success. He used the dimensions from the eham article. Like Pennant, and flag antenna it is low noise and ground independant. An article appears in eham with the dimensions from that Earl's antenna. http://www.eham.net/articles/806 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/ --- From: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:21 AM Subject: Topband: KAZ Antenna Someone, named Charles, asked me if I could point him toward information on theKAZ antenna. I have lost, misplaced or accidentally deleted your e-mail. Please ask again, and I'll try to find some links to get you started. Otherwise, I will just post them here. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: Ground mounted 1/2 wave
- Original Message - From: ZR z...@jeremy.mv.com This is where I think the problem is. You say: ** Since the TOA is established at almost ground zero, radials can increase the energy at angles that would otherwise be attenuated. That is incorrect. Radials, unless they radiate through some flaw such as a single radial system that allows far field radiation, do not meaningfully affect TOA. This is all over the place in all sorts of books, and a knowlege of reflections and angles would tell us the idea radials close to the antenna affect TOA makes no sense with any vertical, unless the feedline or radials are acting like antennas in the far field. The elevation pattern is established some distance out from the antenna. Radials almost exclusively (if reasonably balanced or in large enough numbers to have minimal currents) alter efficiency, nothing else. It is the explanation that confuses many since the facts about radials is real. A few on here seem to be unable to seperate the feedpoint measurements and calculations from radiated losses at the lowest angles. An improved ground away from the base doesnt even have to be connected to it to be effective. The elevation pattern is formed by the distribution of current in the vertical element and the ground out several wavelengths. The lower the angle, and more elevated the high current area, the further out the area responsible for pattern formation moves. If you don't trust multiple people on this reflector, you might read 20-17 in the Antenna Engineering Handbook by Jasik, and dozens of other engineering sources listed in the references at the end of that chapter. Quoting Jasik, ground system losses dissipate a portion of the input power and reduce the field radiated from the antenna. These losses are equivalent to the power dissipated in a resistor is series with the antenna impedance There are many good references out there. Even the ARRL Handbooks have addressed this issue. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: KAZ Antenna
The Wellbrook Communications web site has good pictures of the DKAZ and similar antennas. Navigate to Components then FLAG, KAZ ANTENNA AMPLIFERhttp://www.wellbrook.uk.com/antennashop/index.php?route=product/productpath=25product_id=63 (sic) and click on links to pdf's at the bottom of the page. K1LI ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: KAZ Antenna
Gentlemen: http://www.qsl.net/wa1ion/pennant_v_kaz.htm This article provides a nice description of the KAZ antenna. Other articles are referenced. There have been various tests of larger and smaller KAZ antennas. The KAZ is my favorite antenna for dxpedtions, and has been very effective on trips where no beverages were possible. I much prefer the KAZ over the pennant and the ewe variations. 73 Dale - N3BNA From: Bruce k...@myfairpoint.net To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:37 PM Subject: Topband: KAZ Antenna It is a different name for a Terminated Delta Loop- Earl K6SE developed the recieiving Delta Loop for 160 meters, June 1, 2000 He was too late to get it into his printing of Flag and Pennant Antennas in QST July 2000. Designed for best F/B on 160 meters and zero recactance at 1.830 MHZ. It requires only one support at the top of the loop. The antenna was used by FO0AAA very successfully I had an antenna trasformer customer who built one recently and reported much success. He used the dimensions from the eham article. Like Pennant, and flag antenna it is low noise and ground independant. An article appears in eham with the dimensions from that Earl's antenna. http://www.eham.net/articles/806 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/ --- From: Charlie Cunningham charlie-cunning...@nc.rr.com To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:21 AM Subject: Topband: KAZ Antenna Someone, named Charles, asked me if I could point him toward information on theKAZ antenna. I have lost, misplaced or accidentally deleted your e-mail. Please ask again, and I'll try to find some links to get you started. Otherwise, I will just post them here. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
AA6YQ comments below -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Gary Smith Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:29 PM To: Topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More I use Logic software for normal logging, awards tracking and for contesting. I should learn N1MM for when I help out with a team effort and if they use that. I believe the author was one of the original authors for the LOTW format. http://www.hosenose.com/logic/default.aspx I meant to say I believe the author of the Logic logging software was one of the original authors for the LOTW format. There is no LotW format. I suspect you are referring to the Amateur Data Interchange Format (ADIF), which was developed in 1996 by Ray WF1B and Dennis WN4AZY; Dennis is the author of LOGic. ADIF is employed in two ways by LotW: QSOs uploaded to LotW are conveyed as encrypted ADIF records, and information about a QSO's acceptance and confirmation that was requested via LotW's programmatic interface is returned in ADIF records. 73, Dave, AA6YQ ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: Delta loops antennas
I became aware of an antenna called the KAZ a few years ago. A broadcast band SWL wanted a transformer for one. He furnished the basic antenna drawing that was a Delta Loop. Delta Loop antennas have been around for very many years. Anyway someone had published ,a Delta Loop, naming it a KAZ antenna. Seems to be mostly Broadcast band DX listeners. From years ago: Was there an antenna called a doublet that was a basic dipole ? If someone is looking for a 160 meter DX delta loop antenna, I recommend the K6SE loop. Earl, K6SE (sk) is one of our 160 meter heroes. 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/ The KAZ receiving loop is related to the flag and pennant loops, and the K9AY loop. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
On 12/18/2012 8:29 PM, Gary Smith wrote: I meant to say I believe the author of the Logic logging software was one of the original authors for the LOTW format. Gary KA1J That explains a lot. The Logic software has the same amateurish look and feel that LOTW has. I am sorry that I wasted my money on it. Rick N6RK ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: Delta loops antennas
On the doublet vs dipole: at various times in history, the word dipole was taken by some to mean quarter wave dipole, and doublet was a more general term for a balanced antenna. I will look in my older handbooks and see if there was a singlet (vertical? End fed?) in there. Sometimes I go looking in the 30's handbooks for vertical/Marconi style antennas and find nothing that I recognize at all, maybe I should be looking for singlets. There are some complications... for decades the ARRL handbooks showed charts for doublets with strictly prescribed feedline lengths - I think they were intended to be optimizations while avoiding resonances in feedline but the reasoning behind the chart was never well explained, turning it into a gospel for many. What has thrown me for a loop many times is the GP Antenna. In my gut I feel that GP=General Purpose but sometimes I can eventually figure out that it means Ground Plane. Tim N3QE From: Topband [topband-boun...@contesting.com] on behalf of Bruce [k...@myfairpoint.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:07 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Delta loops antennas I became aware of an antenna called the KAZ a few years ago. A broadcast band SWL wanted a transformer for one. He furnished the basic antenna drawing that was a Delta Loop. Delta Loop antennas have been around for very many years. Anyway someone had published ,a Delta Loop, naming it a KAZ antenna. Seems to be mostly Broadcast band DX listeners. From years ago: Was there an antenna called a doublet that was a basic dipole ? If someone is looking for a 160 meter DX delta loop antenna, I recommend the K6SE loop. Earl, K6SE (sk) is one of our 160 meter heroes. 73 Bruce-K1FZ www.qsl.net/k1fz/ The KAZ receiving loop is related to the flag and pennant loops, and the K9AY loop. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: PE coated RG6
I bought some of these from this seller and this eBay listing number, and they arrived today. Just thought I'd mention that there are no O-ring seals. I didn't try them yet; I have to figure out the best way to prepare the coax. Any suggestions? I'm using Commscope flooded quad-shield RG-6 (F-6) with poly foil and bonded inner shield. Jacket/flooded-braid/foil/braid/bonded-foil/dielectric/CCS. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jim F. j_fit...@yahoo.com wrote: I bought a new roll of flooded quad shield RG-6 and packages of connectors from 5 sources because they are cheap until I found a package that worked. Here is the one that worked great. Note: this is for Quad Shield and Flooded (with Poly.). If you have Double shield it may not work. Seller: fourpairteledata ( 44493 ) 10 Pack Lot - F-Type Compression Connector Male Plug RG6 Quad Shield Coax Cable ( 120796092561 ) ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: Delta loops antennas
Over the last decade I have experimented with a variety of loops: coax, delta, diamonds, flags. The only real-estate available has been the roof of my house. There is just no room on my city lot to accommodate a K9AY or beverages, let alone a 4-square - much as I would like to have had the luxury of trying any of them. My experience with a roof mounted FOØAAA quickly demonstrated that it must be ground mounted. No surprise, ground dependent designs are just not effective when elevated on a roof. I've also tried a variety of toroidal cores for the loop matching transformer with mixed results. A binocular core transformer, as described by W8JI and others, finally made the large loops sound like real antennas. I agree that the K6SE original QST paper and ON4UN's latest Low Band DXing, book deserve study. George, AA7JV, also has demonstrated the effectiveness of a variety of ground mounted loop configurations. 73 - Steve WB6RSE ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
I meant to say I believe the author of the Logic logging software was one of the original authors for the LOTW format. Gary KA1J That explains a lot. The Logic software has the same amateurish look and feel that LOTW has. I am sorry that I wasted my money on it. Rick N6RK Rick, And I disagree with that evaluation completely. Logic does everything I want, does it accurately and does it instantly, it follows my K3 however I configure it. At this time I have the log screen exactly as I want it with the log in one quadrant, the analysis of my needed DXCC on all bands modes with the current band illuminated in red letters, the results of my most recent QSOs listed chronologically in another quadrant and a Spot log showing only the needed spots compared to logics database. I have it customized the log entry fields to move in which fields I wish, based on how I operate and frankly, there's nothing a different log format would do for me that this does not. Here's how my Logic9 looks at this moment. You may need to click on the screen-shot to enlarge it to normal size/clarity. http://doctorgary.net/logic9_display.jpg Amateurish? You be the judge Gary KA1J ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: Is banning really necessary?
In a free society the mere idea of banning people just because we disagree with them goes against our principles of liberty and freedom. As long as there is civil discourse on an issue, how does that not enlighten the debate? Personal attacks are seriously discouraged here and those who engage in it are universally shunned for doing it. Every great thinkers from Galileo, Martin Luther, Nicoli Tesla, even Chicago automotive genius Preston Tucker all offended someone higher up and were subject to banning of their ideas. Hoe did this ever help mankind? Now we are finding the banning in some communities of even Christmas by those who claim it offends them. Even our vocabulary is changed as people are not allowed to talk about problems but the world challenges or issues is considered the PC flavor of the month. Look as Raoul saidit is the Christmas season, a time for reflection, listening to choirs and watching the grand children's eyes all a glow etc. So please enjoy the season, the enhanced DX during the days and months ahead, and for once put the animosity aside. Nobody should be banned from this reflector having contrarian views as long as they are not harmful and deliberately hurtful to others. Remember the truths usually emerges from the crucible of debate. The worst thing is not to have the debate at all so we are just left with preachments that go unchallenged. I sincerely hope that my remarks were taken will out enraging anyone. Feliz Navidade Amigos Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 12/19/2012 7:00 PM, Dave Harmon wrote: That's right Harold I wish he was banned againand stay gone. I try to learn everything I can from the knowledgeable guys on here. It is difficult enough without having to get mad. Dave Harmon K6XYZ[at]sbcglobal[dot]net Sperry, Ok. ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Topband: F-connector installation tool (was: PE coated RG6)
There was recently a discussion about installing F connectors. I ran across a handy tool for this at Lowe's (SKU 303123). It is a small pistol grip attached to a female F connector. The idea is that you screw on the male connector that you want to put on the end of the cable, and it helps to give you leverage to push it onto the cable with high force, and avoid buckling. It is an RCA brand Model VH149N, but actually made by Audiovox. It gives this web site: www.recaccessories.com but AFAIK this tool isn't on the site. Also see: http://www.lowes.com/pd_303123-63374-VH149R_0__?Ntt=f+connector+installation+toolUserSearch=f+connector+installation+toolproductId=3738041rpp=32 This is the VH149R model. Seems to be the same as the N version that I have. Rick N6RK ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
Re: Topband: ARRL LOTW and More
We should face a couple of facts. Budget wise ARRL is a very small outfit, serving a very small population. DXCC is just a fraction, and not a very vital fraction, of ARRL's efforts. What's probably more vital to the future success of Amateur Radio is not us reprobate dinosaurs with ohmygosh external HF antennae, if you'll permit me to generalize beginning with myself. Its the public service volunteer sector. Notice who gets the QST writeups, and who gets the once a year minority report. Nonetheless I rate the DXCC department first class bearing in mind their constraints. Some evidence: My CQWW CW QSO's are fully implemented in LoTW including QSL's from QSO partners who also uploaded. I made an online card submission 11 November. It was processed 30 November. (I/ve lost track whether 11 NOV is the day they received the cards, or the day I made the online submission). I made a LoTW submission on 13 November. It was processed and listed on the SAME DAY 13 November. On the down side my OK DX RTTY submission, uploaded 18 December 12 (for those sans calendars that's yesterday), is not in LoTW yet. Damn those Connecticut Yankees, they just can't seem to get anything done! Lest we forget where ARRL gets its funding. This gotta have it now mentality has only one solution. Those who think ARRL and DXCC operate in the Dark Ages need only send in substantial bequests and whatever problems there are can be fixed. -- 73 Art K6XT~~ Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. ARRL, GMCC, CW OPS, NAQCC ARRL TA ___ It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. - Bertrand Russell
