Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-11 Thread James Rodenkirch
HUGELY - 72, Jim Rodenkirch, K9JWV Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:30:52 -0600 From: t...@k0to.us To: li...@subich.com; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band... A trivial point in this discussion, but of some consequence in assessment of data

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-11 Thread Gary Smith
O... I smell a lot of kit building in the future! Gary - KA1J On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:59 AM, chacuff chac...@cableone.net wrote: Or move to the new Topband500Khz Exactly. For those that missed it - there is more here:

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-11 Thread Gary Smith
I agree. What I don't understand is how people don't understand that UP means transmit up in freq. Yes, some forget to switch Xmit freq call on the DX who is saying UP 3. Got it... but when the police send your call on the DX Xmit freq then tell you to transmit UP in the same breath,

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-10 Thread Mark van Wijk
So, in these times of I want it all at no effort, let's raise the bar. Create new thresholds, filters etc. at which only serious new ops will get through. Close all DX clusters for Topband; yeah hardly realstic, I know. But.. Do not spot on the cluster anymore. 73 Mark, PA5MW On 9 feb. 2012,

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-10 Thread chacuff
So, in these times of I want it all at no effort, let's raise the bar. Create new thresholds, filters etc. at which only serious new ops will get through. Or move to the new Topband500Khz Cecil K5DL ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB -

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-10 Thread James Rodenkirch
Can only imagine how big the loading coil for my 40' vertical would need to be for 500 kHz operations. Hi Hi From: t...@kkn.net Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:02:01 -0800 To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band... On Fri, Feb 10, 2012

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-10 Thread Jack/W6NF
vhfp...@gmail.com To: topband@contesting.com Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band... On 2/10/2012 8:04 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: Can only imagine how big the loading coil for my 40' vertical would need to be for 500 kHz

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-10 Thread Tod Olson
A trivial point in this discussion, but of some consequence in assessment of data, the average is almost always NOT the 50% point of a population. The Median is the midpoint -- that is 50% of the population is above and 50% below the Median. The Average [or Mean] for a population is very

Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-09 Thread Eddy Swynar
Hi Guys, This morning, after calling a general CQ several times on an apparently vacant frequency, the passband of my receiver was inundated by someone deliberately sending a continuous string of rapid dots---pausing only long enough to see if the barrage elicited any response from me---and a

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-09 Thread Roger D Johnson
The Gentleman's Band has been dead a long time, Eddy. It's now inhabited by the same type of operators that infest all the other bands. As for QRL? It's often used by lids on the DX's frequency to cause QRM and provoke a response. A version of sending someone's call on the DX transmitting

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-09 Thread Gary Smith
Hi Eddy, While I agree 100% with you, sadly this is nothing new. You only need to look back to Hiram Maxim's rotten QRM and the Wouf Hong to see the longevity of this RF Graffiti. I'm guessing that because every new HF rig has 160 ability and that there's more commercial antennas being made

Re: Topband: Proper Decorum On The Gentleman's Band...

2012-02-09 Thread Michael Tope
On 2/9/2012 6:48 AM, Roger D Johnson wrote: The Gentleman's Band has been dead a long time, Eddy. It's now inhabited by the same type of operators that infest all the other bands. As for QRL? It's often used by lids on the DX's frequency to cause QRM and provoke a response. A version of