Re: Topband: RFI - 1825.5

Great Tony, please let the group know if you find the offending source, it is good for us to know for future reference if we encounter similar RFI. Good Luck, Lou W1QJ -Original Message- From: N2TK, Tony To: topband Sent: Sat, Jan 16,

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Sounds like someone retreating to his Homogenous Cluster where everyone agrees with him. Bye, Tom On 1/16/2016 8:37 AM, Tom W8JI wrote: This reflector has gone down the toilet with personal BS that serves no purpose except to pick fights. After 20 years, I'm leaving it.It sure went down the

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Sounds a lot like the RHR folks! A friend of mine at the Georgia State Public Service Training Center (right down my street) says this social trend, made pandemic through Internet, has even been assigned a name now. It is called Homogeneous Clustering. This is where groups of people

Re: Topband: Ethics and the Individual

You conveniently clipped off the part where I said "as long as it hurts no one else". Don't play stupid games with me by rewording what I say and posting it in public to make it look like I said something I did not. Also, don't lecture me about ethics after that stunt. - Original

Re: Topband: Topband Strange Propagation

I suspect most of us here, are more like the old school hams were on 160. When a needed DX or non-needed DX is on & I'm calling, I'll happily stand by and let the next guy get their shot. I do believe in the "Golden Rule" and on 160, expect most on here to feel the same way. I admit that

Re: Topband: RFI - 1825.5

Hi Lou, Tonight I will expand my sweep of the area with the portable radio. 73, N2TK, Tony From: Louis Parascondola [mailto:gudguy...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 7:04 PM To: tony@verizon.net; topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: RFI - 1825.5 The timing seems to

Re: Topband: strange propagation

That was not nice. Lou W1QJ -Original Message- From: Roger D Johnson To: topband Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 7:09 am Subject: Re: Topband: strange propagation Sounds a lot like the RHR folks! > > > > A friend of mine at the Georgia State

Re: Topband: Ethics and the Individual

And you conveniently ignored the part when I addressed the "as long as it hurts no one else". - Larry K5RK -Original Message- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom W8JI Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2016 7:29 AM To: Larry Burke; topband@contesting.com

Re: Topband: Topband Strange Propagation

Jim, I know somebody that is capable of doing that. Many times it works to be a nuisance. It seems to be one tactic in the arsenal of DX weapons. I try not to use that one. Lou W1QJ -Original Message- From: Jim Murray via Topband To: topband

Re: Topband: strange propagation

This reflector has gone down the toilet with personal BS that serves no purpose except to pick fights. After 20 years, I'm leaving it.It sure went down the tubes. - Original Message - From: "Louis Parascondola via Topband" To: ;

Re: Topband: strange propagation

I agree 100%. Let's have all on this reflector act like Gentlemen. 160 is, after all, the "Gentlemen's Band". We should live up to the name. Bob AA6VB Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Louis Parascondola via Topband > wrote: > > Tom, by you

Topband: Ethics and the Individual

> The ethics are limited to following the rules, and what a particular person decides to do beyond the rules is up to the individual Martin Shkreli would be proud of this argument. Increasing the price of Daraprim 5000% did not break any rules either. And, hey, he didn't hurt anyone or

Re: Topband: 160m monoband amp (was strange propagation)

Thanks Mike, I'm not going anywhere. I hope that Tom reconsiders his leaving. If you look at the time and effort he spent on his website which he always updates and adds to, and the efforts he puts forth on the various reflectors you have to say it is nothing less than admirable. A handful

Re: Topband: Robot contester

Sorry, file stripped. Lou W1QJ -Original Message- From: Louis Parascondola via Topband To: topband Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 8:06 pm Subject: Topband: Robot contester Hopefully you can get this file. Just another twist on operating.

Re: Topband: Topband Strange Propagation

On 1/16/2016 12:10 AM, Gary Smith wrote: There's an odd behavior that we've all heard & that's the "ditter", the person who on the DX frequency sends the occasional dit, not a string, just a dit & then some odd seconds later does it again. I wonder if they do it to bust the chops of someone

Topband: Commscope SFX-500 - need SFX-ANF connectors - OT

A friend gave me some Commscope 1/2" heliax but had no connectors to go with it. Its out of production hardline and Commscope can't help with connectors. It requires SFX-ANF for a N connector, they didn't make one with a PL-259. Would anyone have two or four of these connectors they'd like to

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Tom, by you leaving would just fuel the egos of those VERY few who want to stir up trouble. If we get off the discussion things should return to normal. I am done with the RHR discussion. When it was a healthy discussion where sensible arguments were presented I see no problem, but when it

Re: Topband: FCC regulations circa 1960's

Tom I /think/ I understand your point and question. If I recall, didn't we have to send our call as a / (stroke) suffix after the lower class call? That's what I recall anyway. Anyone else with better memory, jump in. 73 John W4II _ Topband Reflector Archives -

Re: Topband: strange propagation

I would see this as analo g ou s to what happened in contesting. Originally, you could use 2 meter spotting nets to help "find"  multipliers, no problem. Eventually, f olks in less populated areas complained that this was disadvantageous to them and the contest sponso rs decided that use of

Re: Topband: strange propagation

On Sat,1/16/2016 9:47 AM, n...@comcast.net wrote: How many of you know hams who routinely run more power than is allowed on Top Band in the United States? I know of only one, who admitted to me that he was running 2.5kW. Leaving aside the illegality of it, do you also view that as unethical?

Topband: K5P 160m run

What a run K5P has had on 160 the last 2 nights! I run an inverted L with the vertical portion up 65" and 90 radials of which 60 are 120'. It's not a bad Tx ant, but not so hot on Rx, and I need a bit better Wx to put up the Hi-Z array I bought. I usually hear stations in the pacific for

Re: Topband: K5P 160m run

I was surprised how much stronger they are here on TB than on 80. Art NK8X ᐧ On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Mike via Topband wrote: > What a run K5P has had on 160 the last 2 nights! I run an inverted L with > the vertical portion up 65" and 90 radials of which 60

Topband: Asia lowband contest right now?

Is there some sort of Asiatic Russia/Siberian/??? contest going on with 160M and 80M right now? Obviously too late for me to hear anything but I see a huge number and variety of spots on the bandmap. Tim N3QE _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Gentlemen. I wonder if Tree regrets beginning this discussion with his post the other day? I suspect he might. The discussion of ethics has been interesting to me. Most of the comments have been thoughtful and not angry. Those I have enjoyed, even the ones with which I disagree. I have a

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Amen Howard...The reflectors are great as a lot of us learn quite a bit. The line gets crossed when it becomes a " I can urinate farther than you can" event. I think some could check their egos and if there is a difference of opinion try to remember this is a hobby instead of castigating the

Re: Topband: K5P 160m run

They had huge signal on 160M here in W3 last night. On 80M... my unconfirmed suspicion is that they have one ?Battle Creek Special? and maybe one ?lowband receive system?, and cannot activate both 160M and 80M simultaneously with the good stuff. Right now the stats in clublog say they 120 in

Topband: K5P in Zone 14

Dear OMs, Please do not think I am criticizing the team. So far at 17:27 GMT on Jan16 there has only been one 160M QSO with zone 14 which includes EI, G, DL etc.The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard reach on most bands and once you go away from 17 through 40

Topband: Amateur stations

One final comment and then I'll be silent. I recently found this at: http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=call_signs=amateur Call Sign Systems A unique call sign is assigned to each amateur station during the processing of its license applications. Each new call sign is

Re: Topband: strange propagation

By all means, please don't leave, Tom. Until recently, this sort of junk stayed on CQ-Contest. Perhaps we can give it the cold shoulder and it'll wither away. This is still the place I look to for serious discussion of, among other topics, low-band verticals and receiving antennas. 73,

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

According to Clublog's Leaderboard stations east of the Mississippi are almost nil. 73, Roger On 1/16/2016 12:58 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On Sat,1/16/2016 9:31 AM, Doug Turnbull wrote: The propagation gods are not favouring us at all. K5P is a hard reach on most bands and once you go away

Re: Topband: K5P 160m run

Guys They have a BCS which is what they are using on 160. The BCS also has 80 m capability but that trap shorted so it isn't working on that band. But the BCS wasn't to be their main 80 m antenna, anyway. They were gg to use a Steppir vertical, as I recall. I haven't heard there is a

Re: Topband: K5P 160m run

I emailed the East Coast pilot station this morning inquiring about the 80M situation, and said I had heard that they may be having 80M TX problems. Don was kind enough to respond, and said "It seems they do", and that they are receiving OK. Lot of chomping at the bit to work them on 80M

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

K5P was very loud last night and I had just thrown a 500' BOG down yesterday afternoon. Craig K9CT was at the key. I'm in NW TN, about 30 miles East of MS River. 73, Jamie WB4YDL Sent from my iPad > On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Roger D Johnson wrote: > > According to

Topband: Topband Forum

Hi Tom,I have a coffee cup here that says "Don't let the turkeys get you down".  By the way my SB1000 is purring like a kitten on the low bands now and nice results on the rbn thanks to you. Jimk2hn _ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband

Re: Topband: Amateur stations

The simple answer to that and it's been covered in this discussion several times. The word " station" is actually referring to the "person" not the location. For example. Who is the station calling? Meaning who is the person. Tom explained all this very well in one of his posts about the

Re: Topband: Palmyra cursed paradise (K5P)

I wonder how good the ground conductivity is on an atoll? Perhaps elevating the radials would help. My $0.02 of pure speculation. Art NK8X ᐧ On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Doug Turnbull wrote: > Dear OMs and Yls, > The following link was posted me by Don EI6IL and

Topband: Palmyra cursed paradise (K5P)

Dear OMs and Yls, The following link was posted me by Don EI6IL and tells a very interesting story of woe and murder on Palmyra Island going back to the very discovery of the atoll.Slightly off topic but many of us have illusions of working K5P so this may be of interest and also add a

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

Hi Lloyd: Normally, I have reversible Beverages deployed but this year I decided to purchase a shared apex loop (SAL) from Array Solutions. Unfortunately, due to work, poor wx, and recent illness, I have been unable to deploy it. So yesterday was a relatively warm day and the light rain had moved

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Roger, and the group,,, I know of NO one in recent history that has given of his self and resources more that Tom, w8ji- - and sir, I am going to call you down on this--shame on you--thanks to what appears to be no thanks to you be mindless, uninformed sniping , one of the really great

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Absolutely correct Mike, and some of the other pills were much harder to swallow than this one. -Original Message- From: mstangelo To: Top Band Reflector Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 5:57 pm Subject: Re: Topband: strange propagation Let's

Re: Topband: strange propagation and other threads

Interesting topic(s) and I told myself I wouldn't comment. (but I will anyways, hi !) The one and only issue I have with RHR is when an IT9 station (or anyone outside the lower 48) is using a USA remote and not signing /W4, /W1, /W6 etc. No amount of arguing can explain how that is right.(or

Re: Topband: strange propagation and other threads

Mike, they should, just as if they are physically in the US and vic versa. In that case the CV control OP is in error. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: Mike Smith VE9AA To: topband Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 03:11 PM Subject:

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Steve, your question has a simple answer. It is undeniable that it is illegal and unethical and should be shunned. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: nn4t To: kolson Cc: topband Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2016 12:49

Re: Topband: strange propagation

Let's all calm down. I believe this latest tirade started with RHR. I may not elect to use it but anyone else is entitled to use the service. We've survived Incentive Licensing, code free licenses, solid state radios and other changes. We will survive this change. We should be tolerant as

Topband: Any way to check isolation transformer for FCP

Hello, Need your help. For a long time can't get working FCP for my Inverted L. I'm looking for some way to check quality of my homemade isolation transformer. I'm connect primary to 50 Ohm dummy load and secondary to Antenna Analyzer. Get reading @1850 Ra=28 Ohm and Rx=34 Ohm. Rx is raised with

Re: Topband: 160m monoband amp (was strange propagation)

Hi Lou, Of all the sources of unique help and info about 160 meters, IMO this reflector is the best one. I suppose you've found the searchable archives, which I've found invaluable many times: lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband/

Re: Topband: Palmyra cursed paradise (K5P)

Thanks Doug. Awesome read. Has me wondering about our guys on the island. Maybe the "darkness" of the island has something to do with the S9+ signals we're seeing here in San Diego. Hi. Carl AG6X Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 16, 2016, at 1:26 PM, "Doug Turnbull" wrote:

Re: Topband: Amateur stations

Probably a good choice... > On Jan 16, 2016, at 12:11 PM, Roger D Johnson wrote: > > One final comment and then I'll be silent. > > > > > > _ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _ Topband Reflector

Re: Topband: Topband Strange Propagation

I have experienced this single dit when working split on a DX station. I wondered if it was some kind of malicious interference of some sort but other than what Gary suggested I don't see how it is terribly annoying to the point that one would be making any statement by doing it. W1QJ

Re: Topband: Palmyra cursed paradise (K5P)

Hi Art, Whether or not elevated radials would help K5P, what you stated is NOT pure speculation! :-) Generally speaking, it is well-established that we can use far fewer elevated radials under a vertical than ground mounted radials, for the same efficiency. 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Sat, Jan

Topband: 2016 Visalia Top Band Dinner

Announcing the 2016 Top Band Dinner at the Visalia IDXC April 15, 2016. Craig Thompson, K9CT, will present: “Top Band from Palmyra, K5P.” There will be a self-serve buffet dinner and door prizes. Complete details and registration information can be found at http://topbanddinner.jimdo.com 73! -

Re: Topband: K5P in Zone 14

On Sat,1/16/2016 10:48 PM, Jan Erik Holm wrote: Yesterday to my big surprise I could copy K5P on 160m for about 30 minutes, seemed to peak around 1445Z. They where as strong as 559 on the peaks with deep QSB. I never ever was thinking it was possible to even hear them the way 160m is these days.

Topband: 160m monoband amp (was strange propagation)

I came to the group to try to pick up pointers on improving my 160 meter experience. In the short two weeks I have been here I have so much information to digest. Especially with receiving antennas, which in my short time here has proven to be "the secret weapon". If you can't hear them you

Re: Topband: strange propagation

I have followed with some interest. Early posts had some merit but it soon turns into a free for all. I have had my own thoughts for many years but thought this was not the forum to express them since it serves little purpose. My feeling is the forum should be for technical information or