Re: Topband: A rare Boring Report

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Waters
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Tree t...@kkn.net wrote: - I am personally excited about the new 630 meter band. So am I ! :-) I think it would be good to continue to allow discussions about it here, even though this list is really meant for 160 meters. How hard can it be to homebrew a CW

Re: Topband: A rare Boring Report

2012-02-18 Thread ZR
I suspect it will become a battle between traditional CW and the digi modes in such a small assignment. Building a transverter to go with any xcvr would likely be easier than a scratch built CW rig. Carl KM1H - Original Message - From: Mike Waters mikew...@gmail.com To: topband

Topband: Topband list and 630 meters

2012-02-18 Thread Tree
All. It appears a decision needs to be made - whether or not to include discussions about the new 630 meter band on the Topband reflector. Initially - I didn't have a strong opinion about this - but it has become obvious that I needed to decide which direction this list was going to go - and

Re: Topband: DXE Active Receive antenna question

2012-02-18 Thread Rick Karlquist
D Rodman MD wrote: the receiver and watching the S meter. To our surprise the compromise position for the system (160 80m) in terms of jumper position does not produce the best receive signal one can obtain. It looks more like a monoband system rather than a duoband. By changing the