Re: Topband: Top Band activity

2012-04-02 Thread Jim Brown
On 4/2/2012 3:36 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote: I tested the waters again this morning. VK3XQ has been on 1839 kHz running JT65 for a week or so around 11Z, and several east coast stations have been chasing him. This morning several of them succeeded. 73, Jim K9YC

Topband: Antenna phasing - 9-circle RX array

2012-04-02 Thread Missouri Guy
Hi Gents, I want to confirm some phasing For those of you who have ON4UN's LBDXg book, 5th (latest) edition *AND* who are very familiar with phasingplease take a look at the schematic of the 9-circle RX array at the bottom of page 7-44. Notice that T2 is being fed from H4. Should T2 be

Topband: A25KW Botswana

2012-04-02 Thread Ve7mid
The A25KW Botswana 160m operations were not a success with only ZS6LH being worked. What was more of a surprise was that no other stations were heard on either 160m or 80m! The equipment was a K3 with diversity receive capabilities (Using the 80m vertical 30m away. A beverage was brought but