Way to go, Gary!
I'll be on Top Band this week, starting this evening, lookin' for QSOs with
anyone BUT really hoping to have Qs with CT, VT, RI, SC, FL, ME, IN and MD so I
can complete QRP WAS on 160 meters!
I have a sked with a fella in IN early tomorrow morning - 0100 my time, 0300
his -
What is the QRP frequency on 160? Sounds fun. Would like to give it a try
with my newly finished K3.
73, Mike WA5POK
-Original Message-
From: James Rodenkirch
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 4:28 AM
To: g...@ka1j.com ; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO
Way
1810 is the suggested frequency, Mike - I tend to start there, listening, to
see if any other QRP stations are around but I tend to not hang around there
too much as I don't think of myself as QRP as much as just challenging myself
to do well with lessHi Hi
I'll be on 160 this evening,
On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:44 AM, Gary Smith wrote:
By no means any shadow of a record but I just had a CW QSO on TB with
N3LCW/QRP in Md me in CT; about 300 miles apart. The band was
absent of signals till down at the bottom, there he was calling CQ as
a QRP so I switched the amp off, turned
One of my QRP rigs is a pre WW2 Meissner Signal Shifter coupled with a 1934
National FB-XA.
Carl
KM1H
- Original Message -
From: Bill Stewart cw...@embarqmail.com
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO
Congrats, Gary,
I have a total of 13 countries on 160 with 100mw Gary and almost DXCC at 5W;
a few more on 160 and I'll have 9 band QRP DXCC. When conditions cooperate
anything is possible.
Carl
KM1H
- Original Message -
From: Gary Smith g...@ka1j.com
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December
That sounds fun ... I have a knight kit station I may try ... an Ocean
Hopper and the Knight Broadcaster adjusted to slide up to 160, watt or so on
160 AM. That would be ridiculous. I use that Broadcaster each year in my
physics and engineering classes when my students build crystal radios ...
Hi Guys,
QRP on 160-meters is fun, alright---and there's at least one QRP contest every
year that's dedicated just to the band (you've missed it by a matter of about
1-1/2 weeks!).
One bit of advice, though: save yourself a LOT of potential grief, limit
operations between 1800- 1810-KHz,
___Original Message_
From: James Rodenkirch rodenkirch_...@msn.com
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 Time: 06:17:37
1810 is the suggested frequency, Mike - I tend to start there,
listening, to see if any other QRP stations are around but I tend to
not hang around
Oh - that DX crowd doesn't scare me, Eddy...smiling!
I know to watch out for that dx window Hi Hi
From: deswy...@xplornet.ca
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:52:14 -0500
To: mikefur...@att.net
CC: cw...@embarqmail.com; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO
Hi Guys,
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
One bit of advice, though: save yourself a LOT of potential grief, limit
operations between 1800- 1810-KHz, i.e. the extreme bottom 10-KHz of the
band. Apart from the W1AW code practice sessions there, that part of the band
is usually
Too funny: There's the plan as listed by Ken...
Then, you go to the AC6V web site and you find this:
1.810 QRP CW Calling
frequency
1828.5 --
DXpeditions CW Operations are frequently here
1.830-1.840 CW,
RTTY and other narrowband modes, intercontinental QSOs only
1.840-1.850 CW, SSB, SSTV
All the more reason to populate the band. I work some DX and I am thrilled to
do so, but I also enjoy working the QRP stations and ragchewing. I like to keep
in mind that Topband is the gentleman's band and we should all coexist
accordingly. Here is an example: Just last week I started calling
Just ordered the W2FMI book (~$20) and a T300A-2 core (~$14) from Amidon.
(Minimum order $20)
AMAZON.com lists the W2FMI book for ~$300 new and ~$178 used... Unbelievable
!!
Thanks Guy / K2AV for your technical insight and extreme patience...
73
jim / W1FMR
I thought I would take a moment to update the 160 meter community on our
Topband plans for the upcoming HK0NA 2012 DXpedition to Malpelo. We have
kept the DX community at large up to date through the normal news outlets.
However this update is more specific to our 160 meter operating plans.
Hello Topbanders,
It is getting cold in the Northeast and as I get older, I dislike the cold
even more.
In April of this year, I replaced my Cush craft D40 40 meter rotable dipole
with an OptiBeam OB-4030 dipole for 30 and 40 meters right at the top of the
mast. The overall length of the
I have an 1825 crystal so that is where i usually hang out, with a
vairied power level depending upon which final in use: 833a, 211, or 6V6.
mike w7dra
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 10:52:05 -0500 Ken wa8...@gmail.com writes:
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
One bit of advice,
Bob:
Before making physical changes to the shunt feed system, can you try
changing the length of the StepIR element to see if that affects the match?
If it does or doesn't make a difference, that would be valuable info for the
group.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
- Original Message -
Bob, To avoid the trips up and down the tower in the winter merely add
an Omega cap from the shunt to ground, You can start with a bread
slicer and replace with a fixed mica later when yu find what you need.
IMHO I would replace, when you can, the shunt wire with a three or four
wire cage
My primary interest on CW is DX so Ive not even listened below 1810 except
in a contest. To work QRP DX on 160 wait for the nights that EU and
Carribean are pounding in and find stations nobody else is calling. With
100mw Ive received 339 to 559 reports from EU and up to 579 in the
Carribean.
On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:03 PM, ZR wrote:
QRP can be fun and I guess I'll never
understand the type of operator who needs a 3CX15000 and a world class
antenna farm to boost his ego.
Carl,
QRP may be fun for the QRP station but it's often a PITA for the station on the
other end.
I'm
- Original Message -
From: Ken wa8...@gmail.com
To: ZR z...@jeremy.mv.com
Cc: TOPBAND topband@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP QSO
On Dec 11, 2011, at 2:03 PM, ZR wrote:
QRP can be fun and I guess I'll never
understand the type
On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
One bit of advice, though: save yourself a LOT of potential grief,
limit operations between 1800- 1810-KHz, i.e. the extreme bottom 10-KHz
of the band. Apart from the W1AW code practice sessions there, that part
of the band is usually
According to IARU, our Japanese friends aren''t DX on 160 and get to miss out
on their own DX in the window unless the DX listens down below 1.825not a
fan of the Plan, de W6UQZ
--- On Sun, 12/11/11, ZR z...@jeremy.mv.com wrote:
From: ZR z...@jeremy.mv.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Nice QRPP
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