Re: Topband: K1N DQRM Tracking Project

2015-02-11 Thread rfoxwor1
Mike Waters mikew...@gmail.com wrote: You may have seen an old Wullenweber antenna array at one of those older FCC sites. IIRC, one is (or was) on the east coast. AFAIK, the Wullenweber is not used anymore by the FCC and is scheduled to be (or already has been) replaced with a different

Re: Topband: and KDKA

2013-09-16 Thread rfoxwor1
In recent years many Canadian fulltime AM stations have been shut down on AM and moved over to FM. However they remain notified which is a semitechnical term meaning the Canadian government tells other countries such as the US, which are signatory to treaties, that those facilties still exist. The

Re: Topband: The Quest to save AM radio

2013-09-12 Thread rfoxwor1
Unlikely to ever get past the starting gate as AM Broadcast is a worldwide allocation and I'd think that many other nations have an opinion on this. 73 Bob k2euh Mike Armstrong armst...@aol.com wrote: Brad, *I* say GOOD, let them kill AM broadcast and give the band to US. we

Re: Topband: J6

2012-12-14 Thread rfoxwor1
Re: J6/N7QT I worked him around 02z on the 10th on 80 CW and asked about 160 and he said 'probably tomorrow' but I never heard him that night and I stayed home from an event my wife wanted to go to as well to look for him ... ouch He was on 30 m though. I heard somewhere that they had to share

Re: Topband: Is PT0S still on 160M?

2012-11-20 Thread rfoxwor1
They had been up on 80 cw earlier tonight but QSY to 160 at 10 pm local time, 0300z Wed, on 1825, listening up 2 and with best signal I have hrd them so far (in FL), wkd with 200 w out and 70 foot longwire, after I had thrown down a sketchy radial field. Best around 04 z and was working a mix of

Re: Topband: K2AV FCP with 43' vertical

2012-08-02 Thread rfoxwor1
Tom W8JI w...@w8ji.com wrote: Completely agree, but you didn't say how to get past the garden committee. :) 73, Guy. Thin wire or move. When I was in a townhome in Tampa I was able to use what is called paddle wire. This is 22 ga. steel wire painted in green enamel. It is used in

Topband: LF magazine -was- Re: Skywave for LF

2012-02-23 Thread rfoxwor1
There is a printed monthly magazine called Lowdown published by the Longwave Club of America, running typically 24 pages, covering everything on LF from Natural Radio (sferics)) to 500 kHz, and MedFers. It costs $23 per year in the US. There is often good technical content, and of course

Re: Topband: 1820 BCB

2011-12-21 Thread rfoxwor1
Roger Parsons ve...@yahoo.com wrote: I am over 500 miles north-east of WDOR, and their spurious signal on 1820 kHz is over S9 with me in the past week or so. I do not believe this is intermod as the station modulation is quite intelligible, and it cannot be a coincidence that their