Hi Mike!
If this year is like other years, 160m will be filled from one band edge
to the other.
Yes, the lower half will have more stations operating than the upper
half.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
Can anyone suggest the best freqs. to tune our
ATNO = All Time New One
Never worked Navassa on any band or mode.
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jorge
Diez - CX6VM
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 2:08 PM
To: 'TopBand List'
Subject: Re: Topband: 160 QSO K1N
Hello anyone know if
American Transmission Company built and activated a 345KW line right
thru Madison, WI two years ago. Huge towers, huge green glass
insulators. The line runs right past my XYL's office window, about 100'
distance. Once activated, I used a Gauss meter to measure the magnetic
field in her
All,
They just uploaded the missing K1N 160m QSO records to Clublog site a
few minutes ago. ~ 7000 entries!
... including my missing 160m QSO :-)
73
Lloyd - N9LB
_
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Tom
W8JI
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2015 5:58 PM
To: Lloyd Berg N9LB; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Looking for 160m narrow beam RX advice -
aninteresting combination of ideas
Finding a single RX antenna system that nulls the neighbor noise sources
at 90 and 270
RX advice (Lloyd Berg - N9LB)
I had a similar situation about 15 years ago with my next door
neighbor who had something in his house that was giving me S9 raspy
noise 24x7. I could not find the source in his house but I suspected
his doorbell transformer that was buried inside a wall of his
I have read and re-read the recently posted 160m RX antenna information
presented on the Top Band Reflector and am sold on building a separate low
band receive antenna system in my front yard that is away from my TX towers
in the back yard.
I am wondering if anyone is willing to give me input on
One word of caution.
Don't put the radials too far under the surface. 2, 3, 4, or 5 inches
down is too deep! Remember that you will be cooking the soil (
introducing losses ) between the radial wires and the surface.
Try to keep the radial wires an inch or less below the surface.
73
Lloyd
Rob, I don't know you, but what I stated is absolutely true.
I've been a broadcast engineer for 40 years, much of the time with a Potomac
Field Intensity meter in one hand and a notebook in the other working on
documenting AM broadcast antenna system performance and field signal
strength. ( Also
Pre-dawn here in Wisconsin, the noise is not detectable here as of 1245z
Lloyd - N9LB
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Don
Kirk
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:12 AM
To: Mike Waters
Cc: topband
Subject: Re: Topband: Unknown Pulse
FYI 5-9 plus in southern Wisconsin
Lloyd - N9LB
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of John
Kaufmann
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2014 6:50 PM
To: 'Topband'
Subject: Re: Topband: Unknown Pulse Signal Wiping out 1900-1925 kHz
It peaks at a
The bad thing about high SWR in a high powered system are the resulting high
voltage points and high current points generated by the forward and
reflected waves. Those high voltages and current points can do a lot of
damage to your equipment.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
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From:
In my case, I started out with four radials, great wideband match ~100KHz
When I had some more time and wire, I went to 8 radials, that cut the bandwidth
in half, still a good match.
Each chance I had to add more radials, I did. Each time the bandwidth
decreased substantially, but the antenna
I'm in Wisconsin and I've never worked Haiti on topband either.
I believe there is a large stateside demand for HH on 160m.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On Tue,10/7/2014 8:36 AM, Carl Clawson wrote:
there will be
concentration on working Europe on the
Hi Ed!
I've got a 1650 KHz 10 KW station about six miles away.
I am using a Clifton Laboratories Z10022A high pass filter for 160
meter reception. Works great and very reasonable price.
http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/current_products.htm
Z10022A Medium Wave High Pass Filter
The
Hi Ed!
I've got a 1650 KHz 10 KW station about six miles away.
I am using a Clifton Laboratories Z10022A high pass filter for 160
meter reception. Works great and very reasonable price.
http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/current_products.htm
Z10022A Medium Wave High Pass Filter
The
Any chance for some SSB for us mid-west stations?
( Yes, with amplifier )
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:00 PM, n0...@juno.com wrote:
FYI Topbanders...tonight is the last night to
get W1AW/0 - Missouri on 160m until October.
Freq about 1826, receiving up 1. 0200-0400Z or
9-11pm Central.
There's
Hello Jack!
Thanks for being QRV on 160m!
Yes! Very much interest.
Please activate your station on 160m again as soon as you can.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jack
Henry, OA4TT
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014
:23 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Ends for older Phillystran
On 01/13/2014 04:15 PM, Lloyd Berg - N9LB wrote:
Hi Grant!
I worked at WDAE Radio in Tampa, FL back in the 80's and 90's. The
engineer before me decided to try the new technology Philly-strand guy
lines
Hi Grant!
I worked at WDAE Radio in Tampa, FL back in the 80's and 90's. The engineer
before me decided to try the new technology Philly-strand guy lines on the
AM directional towers because they had constant problems with the original
segmented steel guy wires/egg insulators constantly arcing
and UHF antennas.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
-Original Message-
From: Lloyd Berg - N9LB [mailto:lloydb...@charter.net]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 5:15 PM
To: Grant Saviers; topband@contesting.com
Subject: RE: Topband: Ends for older Phillystran
Hi Grant!
I worked at WDAE Radio in Tampa, FL back
I received a very nice 2-part QSL card for PT0S about a month ago, used
their Online QSL Request Service.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
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From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Phil
Clements
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:29 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Hi Zack!
I'm located in neighboring Wisconsin, running a FLEX-5000A, and a
less-than-optimal 60 ft vertical.
I found the secret to working HI and AK from the black hole of the
Midwest. I've been able to work HI and AK many times when 160 really
opens to those areas just before my local dawn.
Hi David!
I have this problem with my hand held antenna analyzer too. I figured out
that it was picking up AM and FM ( and maybe TV ) broadcast signals and
those were interfering with the readings.
I now use my LP-100A RF meter with about 5 watts of RF to get accurate
readings.
Yes, lugging a
Same here, LOTW has not ingested any of my uploaded logs since it blew Up
after the CQWW-SSB and CW-Sweeps.
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Herb
Schoenbohm
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 5:39 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re:
Hi Bob!
I used the OQSL service a few days after they went QRT, haven't seen any
cards yet.
73
Lloyd - N9LB
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bob
W4DR
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 3:26 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject:
Hi Vladimir!
Thanks for the information.
Congratulations again on a great DXpedition.
73
Top band operators
-Original Message-
From: hamradio-spb [mailto:hamradio-...@yandex.ru]
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 4:12 PM
To: Lloyd Berg - N9LB; topband@contesting.com
I have the same problem with a 50KW FM station a couple of miles away
affecting my Palstar ZM-30. It is useable on the rig side of an antenna
tuning unit, but most of my antennas are self resonate therefore the FM
broadcast RF rides right into the bridge making it mostly worthless when
directly
I was involved in broadcast engineering for many years ( probably one of
the reasons for my interest in 160m and AM ).
There were numerous technical write ups about stations who wanted the
maximum theoretical ground wave signal and spent big bucks to put up 5/8
wave verticals. They were
Hi Dan!
I use #12 solid solid copper THHN house wire - around here Menards has
the best price, HD has gotten very expensive in the last year.
I strip the insulation off with a little jig I made utilizing an
imbedded utility knife blade. I like the direct copper to soil DC
contact rather than
N9LB 2011 ARRL 160 Contest SOLP
100 watts, 60 ft vertical, 60 radials.
This is the first year that I've operated in the ARRL 160 contest. By
the time I got home on Friday and had something to eat, and got into the
shack it was 0113z. First station worked was K7KU in WY. After that,
mostly
Hi Ken!
I had a 42 vertical tuned for 160, worked awful! A random long wire
run from my first floor window to near the tower top then onto / into a
~30 foot tree and back to the peak of the root at the far end of the
house. That random wire worked much better than the 42 vertical on 160.
Hi Tod!
Thanks for the data.
I'd like to build up several toroid chokes for 160, 80 and 40 meter use.
I looked at the Fair-Rite site, no 31 material.
I looked at their vendors and went to Amidon
...amidoncorp.com/items/19
Amidon does have F Material Ferrite Toroids
High Saturation flux density
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