Topband: Zone 2 on 160m

2015-09-17 Thread Steve Ireland
G’day Over the last 20 years I’ve been slowly working my way towards 40 zone WAZ on the topband – 37 down and three to go – zones 2, 12 and 13. Please, does anyone know if any lowbander is planning activity from zone 2 over this season, particularly from the VE2 part of the zone. In the

Re: Topband: HMC580 instead of W7IUV preamp

2015-09-17 Thread Mike Waters
Does anyone want to make an educated guess as to how W7IUV's emitter resistor modification may have affected the NF? My guess is that the NF was changed little if any. I'm sure it helped the signal-handling capability. The only transistor I've ever used in that circuit is a TRW LT1001A. It had

Topband: Reversebeacon S/N interpretation

2015-09-17 Thread K1FZ-Bruce
Had a large front to back on my transmit phased verticals indicating low angle reception last night.  (Some times called spot-light propagation) Top band is alive and well !   73 Bruce-k1fz www.qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html     On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:18:23 -0400, Tim Shoppa wrote:

Re: Topband: HMC580 instead of W7IUV preamp

2015-09-17 Thread Mike Waters
Update: it now looks like increasing the current DOES degrade the NF. The Motorola LT1001A datasheet (now linked to from my preamp page) indicates that. I couldn't find a similar datasheet for the 2N5109. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com Does anyone want to make an educated guess as to how W7IUV's

Topband: Reversebeacon S/N interpretation

2015-09-17 Thread Tim Shoppa
I felt conditions were really good to EU last night on 160M. But look at these S/N numbers below that came from reversebeacon. I know that due to measurement to measurement jitter that we have to reject outliers. There is a string of spots where me and other 3-landers are consistently being

Re: Topband: Zone 2 on 160m

2015-09-17 Thread Carl Luetzelschwab
Steve, For what it's worth, VB2T will be a multi-single from Zone 2 for CQ WW SSB this year. You can see this at http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2015.html. Haven't seen any Zone 2 plans yet for CQ WW CW. Keep your fingers crossed. Carl K9LA _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Re: Topband: Zone 2 on 160m

2015-09-17 Thread Eduardo Araujo via Topband
Hi Steve, If you still need zone 13, I plan to be active during the week previous to CQWWSSB and also during the contest only on 160. Also I plan to participate during CQWW CW and a few days prior to that in slow motion (10WPM) If you still need it, drop me a note. BTW I also need zone 2. So