Re: Topband: Stew Perry Preliminary Results

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist < rich...@karlquist.com> wrote: > Remember the seasons are reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. We > are already having a tough time getting participation from "down > under". Maybe a more inclusive naming convention would make > sense.

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

Bill, You need to shunt feed that 90 foot tower! You can decide whether you want to install an extensive radial field or whether to easily put up a few elevated radials. This is an easy project and will kill the performance of a 43 foot vertical for almost no cost. What tower is it? Are

Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

Anyone have actual experience with any of the commercially available 160 antennas...such as: http://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-160va-1?seid=dxese1=Cj0KEQiAno60BRDt89rAh7qt-4wBEiQASes2tUOULTlQpNyMARBk4ZWRxw70jODW_FJCuBJ1Td47YMgaAhgQ8P8HAQ

Re: Topband: CX/W1UE QSOs

Dennis, Appreciate the upload! Both 160 and 80 were new band entities for me. Thanks and 73, Bill - NA5DX Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 14:25:41 -0500 From: Dennis To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: CX/W1UE QSOs Message-ID:

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

* Understand that even for the top set of guys they are not insulated till 17' from the tower. Insulating the others will not be all that easy for this once very agile 72 yo who put the tower up all by myself 7 years ago. Maybe change to Phillystran? I will also need more specific

Topband: vbog?

Has anyone tried a v-beam configuration on the ground, similar to a bog? Obviously, it would be longer. The intent would be to increase RDF. Or would that be a waste of time? Art NK8X ᐧ _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Topband: Stew Perry Preliminary Results

We have received enough logs now that the preliminary results can be posted. You can check out to see how many QRP and LP stations you are getting bonus points for and see how your checked score stacks up against the competition. http://www.kkn.net/stew If you haven't sent in your log yet (this

Re: Topband: Stew Perry Preliminary Results

Spring Stew Perry. That's neat. Should really just be called the Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter Stew Perry. None of them a "test" version. All of them one gets in there and does it as a regular contest, with to-date stats leading up to the winter as the final entry in an ANNUAL score. Each

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

Bill, You are going to like what you end up with even on some of the other bands. I would think that three 17 foot long guy wires attached to the tower would have a bad influence on the tribander. In fact that's a very bad length attached to the tower and under a 20m antenna. You are not going

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

Bill, When I loaded my 100 ft. stick of 25G, I had broken up the guys with insulators. To see what effect connecting the top guys to the tower would have, I jumpered the first insulators on all three top guys. Looking at the feed point impedance at the bottom of the "gamma" rod, I found that

Topband: Stew Beef

Somebody's got to be the curmudgeon here -- guess I'll volunteer. Not everyone on Topband is excited to see this. Let me see if I've got this right. First there was the Stew, then the pre-Stew (a contest to get ready for a contest), next a Summer Stew. Now there's going to be a Spring Stew?

Re: Topband: Stew Beef

I tend to agree Larry - even more Stew is not necessarily a good thing. Steve WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://members.shaw.ca/ve7sl VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to Nanowaves": http://ve7sl.blogspot.ca/ _ Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: 160M EWE Problems

Good Evening I completely repositioned the EWE today, it's about 70 feet from it's original position and is not pointing at the INV-L.It's pointing towards southern EU. I Verified the feedline was OK, verified the transformer was OK etc. Same results. When listening to an EU station on

Re: Topband: Stew Beef

> Fortunately participation is not mandatory for those who have had enough. Ah, but that's exactly my point. Those with a limited or no interest in this event DO have to "participate" in it by virtue of the additional weekend of chaos that it causes. - Larry K5RK -Original Message-

Re: Topband: Stew Beef

I'm a new top band user. I need all the opportunities I can get, but I do understand the issue. As for me I am not going to "stew" over it. :-) 73, Bob K6UJ On 12/30/15 3:31 PM, Jeff AC0C wrote: Fortunately participation is not mandatory for those who have had enough. Given the winter

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

A few hundred Watts might do it.  Short antenna, low feed point impedance, inefficient tuner settings, and suddenly the tuner is dissipating a lot of the RF that was meant to pass through.  :( 'JK On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:25 PM, Pat N8VW wrote: On

Re: Topband: Stew Beef

I was hoping for a weekly Stew. Think about that and maybe you'll feel better about a seasoned stew. 73, Bill KU8H On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Steve wrote: I tend to agree Larry - even more Stew is not necessarily a good thing. Steve WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook":

Re: Topband: Stew Beef

WWSD? ᐧ On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote: > I was hoping for a weekly Stew. > > Think about that and maybe you'll feel better about a seasoned stew. > > 73, > > Bill KU8H > > > > > On 12/30/2015 06:05 PM, Steve wrote: > >> I tend to agree Larry - even

Re: Topband: Stew Perry Preliminary Results

Beware the Ides of March! Jeff W6JK On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 2:12 PM, Mike Waters wrote: "Spring Stew – March 14/15 – You saw it here first!!" GREAT! :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Tree wrote: >

Re: Topband: Commercial 160 antennas?

On 2015-12-30 12:56, K4OWR wrote: Tuners on 160, with a LOT of power, always eventually blow up or catch fire. Interesting comment. What do you mean when you capitalize the word "lot"? ..n8vw _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: vbog?

Has anyone tried a v-beam configuration on the ground, similar to a bog? Obviously, it would be longer. The intent would be to increase RDF. Or would that be a waste of time? Waste of time to increase directivity. Long wires laid on or near the ground fire straight down the length of a

Re: Topband: Stew Perry Preliminary Results

"Spring Stew – March 14/15 – You saw it here first!!" GREAT! :-) 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Tree wrote: > http://www.kkn.net/stew ... Note that the dates for the 2016 events have > been decided and posted. There might even be a surprise for those of

Re: Topband: Commercial Antennas

My Ten Tec 238B L-Network tuner works well at 1500W. Some tuner networks, especially T-networks, can have very high currents through the shunt inductor. Bill, W6QR _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Commercial Antennas

My Ten Tec 238B L-Network tuner works well at 1500W. Some tuner networks, especially T-networks, can have very high currents through the shunt inductor. The largest issue with T tuners is capacitor value. Most tuners use generic 230-270 pF maximum capacitance caps, and that makes the