How about a Waller flag? Better than a Beverage, since you can rotate it!
Search for *Waller* or *Waller flag* in the Topband archives. Lots of
information there, with a link to the N4IS page about them.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 4:20 PM Wes Stewart wrote:
> I just drove
Hello Wes,
I tried 160 back in the early 70's when my brother was active from
CO and we skedded on weekends. I used a long wire about 650 ft long for
both TX and RX. Working Europe was special with that setup. I had a
75A4 RX and a t-368 RF deck with 1000 volts on the 4-400 to net me 80
I would echo the comments about running an RG-6 feedline across a radial
field. I picked up huge amounts of common mode noise that got into
everything. (even other beverage wires!) I had to move the feedline to
cure it. Ferrites were not effective by simply decoupling each end of
the
I just drove down to the local convenience store and bought some Powerball
tickets. If I win, there's a nice 80 acre parcel across the street from me that
I would buy. Until then, I'm stuck on a 1.7 acre plot with no room for beverages.
Wes N7WS
On 12/22/2018 1:20 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Greetings Top Band Insomniacs, RF Maniacs and Low Band Lovers,
It is slightly less than one week until the starting gong for The Stew
Perry Top Band DX Challenge sponsored by The Boring Amateur Radio
Club. Be sure to set aside up to 14 hours to participate in the best 160M
CW contest in our
Precisely, Peter! There was no DC path to ground on my inverted-L, because
the tuner at the base was just two or three capacitors.
A spark gap across the resistor will also discharge surge voltages from
nearby lightning strikes. The tips of my homebrew shunt spark gap melted
more than once from
I was going to get up early today. Kicking myself...
Sam (N3XZ)
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark
K3MSB
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 11:57 AM
To: topBand List
Subject: Topband: JAs on TopBand
This morning was surreal.
I
Hi Wes,
Once you try a Beverage, you'll realize that those antennas weren't hearing
the weak ones that called you. ;-) See
http://www.w0btu.com/Beverage_antennas.html.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 8:05 AM Wes Stewart wrote:
> Although licensed for 60 years I'm a relative newby
Well-written, Bruce! :-)
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 12:14 PM F Z_Bruce wrote:
> https://www.qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
>
> 73
> Bruce-k1fz
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> Reflector
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Jerry,
If you would like to do some mid-day comparison testing between FT8 and CW,
let me know. Looks like the path length is about 400 miles.
Jim,
K9SE
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Still doing FT8 testing this morning 3 hours after sunrise I looked for
something resembling dead band conditions with only a few weak stations.
There was nothing on 160 but the west coast guys were still on 80. They
were weak but there. They would have been good copy on CW but FT8 was
https://www.qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
73
Bruce-k1fz
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Hi Mark,
Congrats!
I got up with the dog at 4:30 then took a listen. RW0CR and RA0FF (both zone
19)had good signals on 160 FT8. I worked Alex RW0CR.
Then caught Harry, JD1BMH, at my sunrise on 80 FT8.
Then switched to 160 cw and heard the JA’s. Worked 3. Big pile on JA0MVW on
1824.5
JA here at sunrise were 599, but by that time not many around, heard
some weak
UA4, RA9 etc, but not much activity, Saw strong signal up in the
FT-8 band and
did not bother to tune up there, 30 mins after sunrise it was still
there so out of
curiosity I turned on FT-8 and there was
Hi Mark,
Working JA on TB never gets old.
I got up about 11:20Z, messed around with making a big breakfast and finally
sat down in front of the rig at 12:15Z, about 9 minutes before SR. Wow,
JA0MVW was way loud. I worked him followed by JA7BXS, JH1HDT, JA3MIX,
JR1ELZ I believe, don't have
I worked three (3) JA's here in Atlanta this morning.. It was actually
better after sunrise... I received a 579 from JH2FXK at 1257 Z..
They were rolling in from the NW on the Hi-Z 8
73,
John, W4NU
On 12/22/2018 11:57 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
This morning was surreal.
I couldn't sleep
Hello Mark,
Glad you caught it! That is a wonderful day for the northeast! I was up
at 1115UT this AM, as the dog wanted to go out, and I pondered whether
to trudge out to my barn and get on 160. I had been up until 1 AM re
working an old 75A4 and a PTO and was exhausted. I decided to go
This morning was surreal.
I couldn't sleep so I got up around 0900Z, had a cup of coffee, read for a
while, then went down to the shack. I worked 3D2AG on 80M CW and was
listening to him put in a very nice signal to the east coast while I did
some email correspondence. I QSY'd to 160M
A drain resistor would be advisable if there is no DC return path to
earth... if there is no inductor or resistance between the antenna and
earth it can develop wind or snow induced static voltage buildup, which can
lead to discharges that will cause noise in the receiver. Static voltages
can also
Terry
My tower is 116 high , plus 10 ft of mast with a top hat, and the HWF. I
never had any problem on 80m because the antenna is too long and near 1/2
wave vertical for 80m, my Vertical WF is 60 ft from the tower and I never
noticed any degradation on the irradiation diagram measured with
Although licensed for 60 years I'm a relative newby on topband. (I did work VE7
in 1959 but that's another story). I decided to semi-seriously take up the band
to acquire my 9th DXCC band award.
As I've described before, pardon the redundancy, I worked my first 70 entities
using an
On 160 I've used a vertical wire of 20 feet with a 1000 pF variable
capacitor to detune a tower at its base. You can scale that to 80.
73, John W1FV
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of terry
burge
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 9:22 PM
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