Topband: WWDXC Top-Band Anthology

2020-11-11 Thread Ward Silver
Hi all, Interesting that these should pop up again after so many years! They were published in 1998 and 1999, IIRC. I don't have the electronic files on my current system. They may be on floppies upstairs in a box somewhere :-) Unlikely that they are in PDF format but maybe. I'll eventually

Topband: New Top Band and VHF Contesting Authors

2018-06-03 Thread Ward Silver
I'm glad to let everybody know we have a new author for the ARRL 160 Contest writeup. Mark Beckwith N5OT has stepped into the ample shoes of outgoing author, Gary Breed K9AY whose writeups we enjoyed for a number of years. Hats off to both gentlemen! I know we'll continue to hear K9AY on Top

Re: Topband: ARRL 160

2016-12-05 Thread Ward Silver
If the web upload app for log submission finds something in a QSO: line it can't deal with... > The ARRL submission AP tells you to correct the mistakes rather than remove or unclaim them and that is NOT RIGHT! Point of clarification - the app does not really know anything about a

Re: Topband: Clean Sweeps in ARRL 160

2016-12-04 Thread Ward Silver
, but it's not official http://3830scores.com/listeditions.php?arg=B6cgaWz5a3 73 Mark K3MSB On Dec 4, 2016 4:17 PM, "Ward Silver" <hward...@gmail.com <mailto:hward...@gmail.com>> wrote: Not by me, I assure you, but several have been reported after this weekend'

Topband: Clean Sweeps in ARRL 160

2016-12-04 Thread Ward Silver
Not by me, I assure you, but several have been reported after this weekend's excellent conditions. Does anyone know of historical clean sweeps of all ARRL/RAC sections in any prior ARRL 160 contests? The online score database only lists "mults" which include both sections and DXCC entities.

Re: Topband: ADC Overload

2015-10-14 Thread Ward Silver
Perhaps an alternative analogy would be helpful here... Each of the many signals can be imagined as its own phasor. One end of the phasor is anchored on the origin (0 V) and the other is spinning around the origin at the frequency of the signal with a length equal to its amplitude. Since the

Topband: Missing Contest Listings - Contest Update for 19 Dec

2012-12-19 Thread Ward Silver
An unfortunate cut-and-paste misfire resulted in omitting the RAC Winter Contest and Stew Perry TBDC contests from the lists of upcoming events - I've corrected the online version. The ARRL Letter should have the correct information when it goes out later this week - apologies. 73, Ward N0AX

Topband: ARRL 160 and Other Inequities

2012-11-30 Thread Ward Silver
I concur with Tree that it is a good thing having three quite different 160 meter contests in the space of two months (ARRL, Stew, CQ WW) and the ARRL DX Contest if you want to do it as a single-band entry. The scoring is different because all of them have different missions. I also recognize

Re: Topband: HFTA, Radio Arcala, general comments

2012-10-24 Thread Ward Silver
My comments?follow on three topics that have been brought up, ? HFTA - It can import?the elevation angle files generated from IONCAP/VOACAP that Dean N6BV produced. HFTA?does not have an ionospheric module in it. And yes, the files only go down to?80m because of IONCAP/VOACAP limitations. ?