I don't use a PC in the shack out of choice. Spots don't exist. I tune around
and work what I hear. W3LPL helps those that use that service.
73, Gary NL7Y
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Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com
I think we have to be careful, that innocent regular users of 160M for non-DX
and non-PT0S-DX, don't get swept up as calling PT0S. Especially with the DX
sometimes listening UP through a broad swath of the band... and other times
listening DOWN through a different swath... we don't know who
Fellow top banders,
I have been chasing DX since the age of 15 in 1959. I have pretty much
seen it all. None of it really bothers me. It is only a hobby, and not a
career. I just get on with great antennas, maximum legal power, and a
few operating tricks I've picked up over the years. I work
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 23:01 -0600, Gary K9GS wrote:
Since I sort of started this with my post last night...
I don't think that public humiliation is going to fix this problem. As
others have pointed out, there is too much of a potential for abuse with
people deliberately signing others
Last night on 80m it was kind of funny as I was spotted at least twice while
I was calling PT0S. Must have had a big signal but no QSO.
Doug
I'll run the race, and I will never be the same again.
-Original Message-
On 11/12/2012 1:48 PM, Mike(W5UC) Kathy (K5MWH) wrote:
I just tell
The thing I find amazing is the number of people that send on top of the
station that the DX is trying to work. For the past two nights while
listening to PT0S and listening for the frequency of the station he is
working, I always hear the same station at that frequency sending
non-stop on
I amazed at the number of DXers who call non stop, almost regardless if
whether PT0S is working someone. And then, my favorite, 7DX??. And many who
have no possible relation to that call keep sending.
Bob AA6VB
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 13, 2012, at 6:10 AM, K4SAV radi...@charter.net
With all the explanations and angst over this type of behavior truly it comes
down simply to pure unabashed idiocy by our comrades. I'd just like to sit
next to one of these guys while they r doing it and ask why? Are they serious
about trying to make a contact calling out of turn, calling
Sometimes its accidental guys. Picture this example.
DX says: TU
Everybody calls. I drop in my call twice at 30 WPM. Hear nothing. Drop in
call twice again. ... during that brief moment DX sends 7DX? and I don't hear
him as I am still transmitting call twice.
And again I hear nothing as DX is
Bob, I agree with you. If I remember correctly, getting close to (NTCA)= no
tower climbing age, VP6DX used a very good procedure moving their TX QRG
up/down by about 0.5 kHz, more than enough to keep the real amateur bastards
away from making qrm on their TX FQ.
I guess this new flue is getting
John, k9uwa wrote:
Sometimes its accidental guys. Picture this example. DX says: TU Everybody
calls. I drop in my call twice at 30 WPM. Hear nothing. Drop in call twice
again. ... during that brief moment DX sends 7DX? and I don't hear him as I am
still transmitting call twice. And again I
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, a prior poster wrote:
If voltage or heat at a low impedance feedpoint is so high you need a
special sleeve, that is a bit of a warning flag about system design. You
probably could use almost anything, including small plastic fuel line hose,
insulating
Hello Bryan
I am very happy with KD9SV products, are very good and easy to use. I have
DXPedition II box to select my beverages. FES protection, preamp and you
can use it also with radios with no RX capability
http://www.radio-ware.com/products/svdxii.htm
73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W
On Mon,
I use
http://www.ok1rr.com/index.php/technical-topics/39-yet-another-front-end-saver
From: gali...@comcast.net
To: wh...@hawaii.rr.com
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:24:29 -0500
CC: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: TX/ RX Antenna Switching
Bryan, I use the DX Engineering RTR-1
On 11/13/2012 7:56 AM, Chortek, Robert L wrote:
Yes, sometimes it is accidental, and I have been guilty of calling when I
should be listening.
Of course, but not for six or seven TX/RX cycles! We should be calling
ONLY when we can copy the DX station well enough to know what's going
on. I
I think we have given this subject enough consideration.
Thanks.
Tree
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Kudos to the operators at PT0S for their adjustment to band conditions
and volume of callers. I listened for two nights before making the dive
into the mayhem. To me the first few nights the operators were going far
to fast for the conditions especially for those in Rocky Mountain states
and
I'm not a dxpeditioner, but even so I frequently find myself on the
receiving end of pileups, particularly with EU. The behavior of some callers
occasionally makes the process very painful. It's also much more work than I
think some people understand. Callers who end with enjoy the pileup
actually
Why all of a sudden are we grumbling and growling about this? This kind of
behavior has been going on for as long as I can remember and I admit to being a
fairly new ham compared to some here (only been a ham since 1965) but I have
seen it happen since I was a noviceand what because
I can only figure one possible how someone is exactly on PTOS Fx and
repeated keep calling directly on the DX Transmit frequency and that
is that they have their radio set split and then reversed it while
still listening to both frequencies simultaneously. This way they
would hear the DX
Thanks guys.
It sounds like the DX and MFJ are out because of Watt limitations (200W?).
There are two Front End Savers so far..
KD9SV Front End Saver and OK1RR Saver
And there's this.. which sounds simple if I want to use my Yaesu 987 for the
Beverage RX only. No changes to main rig
Thanks for input.
Because I'm using two different radios for TX / RX - This product from Array
sounds like a simple fix to RF overload.
I think if I was using one radio and needed to switch - I'd go with the other
products.
I guess I'll see about any volume? issues with that setup?Do my
Has anyone modeled or have experience with a transmit vertical array, say a
4-square, over uneven ground? By uneven I mean a variance of up to 2 - 3 meters
over the footprint of the array elements. I have plenty of room at this QTH but
the terrain is fairly uneven. I've done some modeling but
I never found a way to model an an antenna over anything but flat, level
ground. Not in EZNEC+ 5.0, anyway.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Ken Claerbout k...@verizon.net wrote:
Has anyone modeled or have experience with a transmit vertical array, say
a 4-square, over
It seems to me and I may be wrong but dont you get the tilted ground answer
just by tilting your vertical elements with respect to ground in Eznec?
From what I see with doing that the take off angle mostly follows the ground
with
at least 1/4 wave or less vertical antennas.
Lee K7TJR OR
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