Re: Topband: The Magic-T

2021-02-09 Thread Lee STRAHAN
Hi Low Band people, Nice presentation Steve. I would like to point out that Beverage users or even other phased antenna users should not use paralleling two 75 ohm coaxes and then matching them back to 75 for the receiver. While on the surface that all sounds good there is a little problem

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Adrian
Jim is economic on quoting callsigns, The VK4 is myself VK4TUX, I have been testing FST4-300 will be back on FST4-60 tonight from ; 12:00 UTC till 15:00 UTC, which is 10:00pm to 1:00 am AEST here. I work 1837.5 + 2K TX/RX mark I will probably test FST4-300 after a FST4-60 session with N6SS,

Re: Topband: The Magic-T

2021-02-09 Thread fmoeves
Steve, Thank you Steve I always enjoy your videos. Will watch it later. Thanks  Fred KB4QZH  Original message From: VE6WZ_Steve Date: 2/9/21 5:46 PM (GMT-05:00) To: topband Subject: Topband: The Magic-T Today I uploaded a video to my RX series which explains the Magic-T

Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Mack K4AO
I believe this will be a great DX mode on 160m eventually. I have made a few stateside QSOs with around 35 watts (amp is down right now). Worked N6SS with very good signals and decoded DL7NN this evening at -21. Question, I will call this the "Decode" window where the 2-Dark green arrows are

Re: Topband: The Magic-T

2021-02-09 Thread donovanf
This is the corrected URL for Steve's Magic-T video www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bbt1IcC4bk 73 Frank W3LPL - Original Message - From: "VE6WZ_Steve" To: "topband" Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2021 10:29:54 PM Subject: Topband: The Magic-T Today I uploaded a video to my RX series

Topband: Wednesday CW DX Activity Night

2021-02-09 Thread Roger Kennedy
Your weekly reminder about tomorrow night, for those of us that prefer to work DX on CW . . . Conditions seemed pretty poor over the weekend, but are starting to improve again, so hope to see some of you on 160m tomorrow night ! 73 Roger G3YRO _ Searchable Archives:

Topband: The Magic-T (link correction)

2021-02-09 Thread VE6WZ_Steve
Today I uploaded a video to my RX series which explains the Magic-T combiner. I have received a few emails asking me “how do I make the magic-T”? so I thought a video would be helpful. I show the method for winding and building the Magic-T combiner and I explain how it is used in phased RX

Topband: The Magic-T

2021-02-09 Thread VE6WZ_Steve
Today I uploaded a video to my RX series which explains the Magic-T combiner. I have received a few emails asking me “how do I make the magic-T”? so I thought a video would be helpful. I show the method for winding and building the Magic-T combiner and I explain how it is used in phased RX

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Mike Waters
When anyone posts here about FST4 —or any other digital mode— *please* include 160digi...@groups.io as a recipient. Thank you! :-) 73, Mike W0BTU On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 6:52 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for getting some more difficult > new ones on 160. >

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Brian Hamerski via Topband
So far I’m impressed with the mode from here in AZ. Worked into IL at 0100, pretty early for out west here. Getting spots on east coast well after their sunrise., VK4TUX is on every day starting about 1300, he is running at 300seconds! Many folks (me included) have called him but I

Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 218, Issue 7

2021-02-09 Thread Preston Smith
I've been on FST4 for all of 5 days now (as of 09Feb) and haven't seen more than 12-15 individual calls print all Stateside excepting VK4TUX. For anyone contemplating the mode the Quick-Start Guide at https://physics.princeton.edu//pulsar/k1jt/FST4_Quick_Start.pdf has lots of good info much more

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Jim Miller
First test Feb 10, 0100z, Dial freq 1837.5. DF1500 FST4-60 for a fine tone freq of 1839. R7LV on the other end. I know this is too early for W6/7 but I'd like to get a first try without staying up too late. Stay safe! jim ab3cv On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 12:53 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I'll post

Re: Topband: Testing FST4 on 160m

2021-02-09 Thread Jim Miller
I'll post any skeds for others to participate as well. stay safe! jim ab3cv On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:51 PM Jim Miller wrote: > I've been looking at FST4 as a possibility for getting some more difficult > new ones on 160. > > From Table 7 in >