Re: Topband: Antenna check for V31XX

LU8DPM may have a very good station however it is summer in Argentina so QRN is likely much higher than Belize. It is ~4000 miles south of Belize. I have spent a lot of winters in Aruba and it was not unusual to see and hear the lightning storms in South America. John KK9A (P40A) Jim Brown

Re: Topband: PLease!

I have got to the point that I ignore those unquoted posts.73,Gary K9GS Original message From: Pete Smith N4ZR Date: 2/1/22 3:10 PM (GMT-05:00) To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: PLease! Amen, Mel.  My favorites (ha) are the people who don't include *any*

Re: Topband: PLease!

In the 90's with a dial up connection a digest made some sense. Today we have lots of bandwidth and most any email program lets you set up easy filters to sort messages into orderly folders. Single messages make for easily followed threads without the jumble. Easier for both the individual user

Re: Topband: PLease!

Me too…… _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: PLease!

I am with Pete on you "no quoted context" guys . I have given up and simply delete those messages without reading as well ( your loss not mine) Ahhh and then are the "well meaning thread hijackers" . In my vision of the "next life"  both groups will be doomed to trying to work Bouvet and P5

Re: Topband: PLease!

Hi, This is a longstanding, universal problem with mail lists and the usenet lists before. We are preaching to the wall here. I just delete such messages  understanding that I could be missing something good. But it really is useless under the described conditions. -shrug- 73, Bill  KU8H

Re: Topband: VE6WZ DIY 9-circle combiner board with on board chokes

Hi Rich, I’m afraid that won’t work on either of my previous board designs or on the original YCCC combiner board. This is because the boards all have a low impedance ground plane that the F-connectors are 4-point soldered to. There is no (easy) way to isolate each connector from the ground

Re: Topband: VE6WZ DIY 9-circle combiner board with on board chokes

Thanks for your continuing work on this Steve. I'm currently using the dual core/ RG179 transformer designs enclosed in pvc, with short equal jumpers to your last combiner/amp design (just using it as a N.S.E.W. 5-circle this winter). I may take one of my spare combiner boards and build it up,

Re: Topband: PLease!

Amen, Mel.  My favorites (ha) are the people who don't include *any* context in their replies. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at. For spots, please use your favorite "retail" DX cluster. On 2/1/2022 2:05 PM, Mike Waters wrote:

Re: Topband: PLease!

Thank you, Mel. This needed to be said. :-) On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 1:00 PM MEL CRICHTON wrote: > Folks... when you reply to a post PLEASE do not include the entire > digest in your reply just the message, or even better just the line > or paragraph, that you are responding to. I could not

Topband: PLease!

Folks... when you reply to a post PLEASE do not include the entire digest in your reply just the message, or even better just the line or paragraph, that you are responding to. I could not find the new stuff inside all the old attachments in the last digest. Sorry to be a griper Not

Re: Topband: K9YC and LU8DPM

I managed to get through in ARRL 160, but not this weekend. tnx Mike / K5JR (fmr W5JR) Alpharetta GA > On Feb 1, 2022, at 13:03, w3...@roadrunner.com wrote: > > Jim, I said the same thing in the ARRL 160 contest. I heard DPM loud > and clear and called my head off...to no avail. And he

Re: Topband: K9YC and LU8DPM

Worked him this weekend from KS first night.  5:17Z.  Only DX seen in my whopping 2 hours of activity. 73/jeff/ac0c alpha-charlie-zero-charlie www.ac0c.com On 2/1/22 12:03 PM, w3...@roadrunner.com wrote: Jim, I said the same thing in the ARRL 160 contest. I heard DPM loud and clear and

Re: Topband: G3YRO storm

Roger, I think that storm you had has circled around and will be coming through Ohio later this week! :) Overall, I saw the 2022 contest rate here in the US was below normal for even the beginning of the contest, and it dropped way off on Night 2. Signals were weaker, and it was hard to find new

Re: Topband: K9YC and LU8DPM

Jim, I said the same thing in the ARRL 160 contest. I heard DPM loud and clear and called my head off...to no avail. And he wasnt coming back to anyone. Assumed his QRN/M problems must be monumental. But this time he came back on the third call. Go figure.

Re: Topband: V31XX antenna check.

Bill, thanks for the QSO and the mult! But its hard to say re: your new antenna. It should be a whopper for you, with 100 vertical ft, but overall signals wee down, and I didnt hear a lot from CA SA or the Carib. Probably partly due to COVID and part due to the increased solar activity/D layer

Topband: New 9 circle PCB with CMCs

Hello fellow DXers, Today I uploaded a YouTube video describing my new 9 circle combiner board PCB design that has small Murata SMD CMCs on each RG-6 feedline. I include PCB file links to download in both KiCad format or a zipped Gerber folder if you want to build your own. A BOM and an image