Has anybody snaked a wire up a tall tree trunk to make an Inv L?
Any interaction? Success?? Has to be stealthy because the tree os my
neighbor's :-)
Thanks,
Ed NI6S
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Ash,
Heard an N1, W9 and others work you, but your signal did not make it to
Arizona. I hoping you can get more power at some time. Otherwise, it will
take a fantastic 160m opening for us to hear you and you to hear us.
Will keep listening and hoping.
Ray,
N6VR
nr Prescott, AZ
On Sat, Sep 22,
Hello Ash
I listened to you last night. For 100w you had a good signal with some WEB. I
was listening on a 1/4 wave 80m vertical.
73,
Gary K9GS
Original message From: Ashraf Chaabane
Date: 9/22/18 12:58 PM (GMT-06:00) To: topband@contesting.com Subject:
Topband: Help on 3
All,
Thanks to everyone on list who gave me a lot of specific advice to my questions
on my 160m inverted L.
I visited the local DIY store today and purchased a length of 8mm bore flexible
copper pipe which I wound round 10 times on a pipe of 3in diameter to make a
“hairpin” match. After conne
WWV has been broadcasting an outdated propagation report for several days,
giving the solar flux as of September 18 and K Index as of 1200 on September
19. THIS MAY BE A TEST TO SEE IF ANYONE IS LISTENING, and if not, they’ll shut
it down.
We’ve had similar tests from other SW services prior t
Hi all,
The toploaded vertical is up and running. I had to put the antenna wire
1.5m away from the mast which was making the SWR curve weird. Then
everything went good after hairpin match adjustment!
I put in my website a map of the QSOed stations last night with 100W CW.
The antenna worked