Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days

Hi Jim, Thanks. I started getting RF power out on transmit! I still have a lot to do. It's rude and crude! I spent enough time with the scope and generator today that as soon as I had some RF out of it I quit for the day. Staying at it too long leads to mistakes and frustration :)

Topband: ARRL DX Phone Contest

Given personal commitments for the weekend, I was considering operating the ARRL DX contest 160m single band. Given the recent discussion regarding the CQ 160m contest, I downloaded a Top Ban World Allocations worksheet at http://www.qsl.net/n1eu/topband/ Given, the discussion, it looks like

Topband: Capacitors and Coil

Hi all,Not trying to push a sale but thought someone on topband could use the variables and roller inductor I just put on sale on QRZ. 73,jim/k2hn _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days

I'll be lookin' for ya as a QRP contestant, BillGL getting that Atlas up and runnin' 71.5/72 de Jim R. K9JWV From: Topband on behalf of Bill Cromwell Sent: Wednesday, March 2,

Topband: Spring Stew Perry in a few more days

Hi, Somebody mentioned the Stew is coming 'round again so I finally remembered to look it up. It will be here a week from Saturday. I have been 'on a roll' at my workbench getting the old radios operational again. I am going to flog myself attempting to have the station ready to get on the

Re: Topband: Ground screen ????

On Wed,3/2/2016 8:02 AM, Joshua M. Arritt wrote: Galvanized Fe material is problematic from an R standpoint as well (vs. Cu). This results in a "lossy" ground plane. That condition has real impact the effectiveness of the antenna system, when compared to an all-Cu (or at least a lower-R

Re: Topband: Ground screen ????

Galvanized Fe material is problematic from an R standpoint as well (vs. Cu). This results in a "lossy" ground plane. That condition has real impact the effectiveness of the antenna system, when compared to an all-Cu (or at least a lower-R metal) plane. Immediately perceived consequence of