T-8 oriented
friend initiated an FT-8 sequence, went to the bathroom, and after coming
out pointed out he made a QSO while in the bathroom. He specifically did
that to show me it could be done. And FT-8 people want respect for
that?Sorry Charlie, not from me.
Mark K3MSB
O
e already has worked.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 8:51 PM K4SAV wrote:
> NR2DX asked: "If read your post correctly you are saying that you are
> working against an ambient noise level of 20-30 db over S9 is that
> correct.? "
>
> No. The S9+20 to 30 dB is
Agreed George. It's (past) time for mode specific single band awards.
There's nothing preventing our alleged "national organization" from doing
so, only the will to do so.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:06 PM GEORGE WALLNER wrote:
> Nobody is talking about "shutting" anything down.
> Quite the
rovide guidance on it's
impact on the competitive aspects of Amateur Radio.Like someone else so
aptly put, you don't have a race between a person on foot and a race car.
That summed up this entire issue eloquently and sufficiently.
Mark K3MSB
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 11:24 AM W0MU Mike Fatchett
I used 8 foot ground rods for the BOG and 4 foot ground rods for the
RBOG.
Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 1:36 PM Mark K3MSB wrote:
> I’ve used BOGs and RBOGs at 200 feet length laying on the ground. The
> BOG worked great, the RBOG worked good, but not as good as the BOG.
>
.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 1:08 PM Paul Mclaren wrote:
> Just a ‘simple’ question hopefully - How close to the ground should a BOG
> be for best/good performance?
>
> I am looking for any additional info that I can get to supplement what I
> have found online
Here’s where the DXCC standings are listed
http://www.arrl.org/dxcc-standings
Can you please show me where 160M CW is?
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 9:35 AM wrote:
> It already has them. Mixed is mixed (all modes including FT8, RTTY, SSB,
> AM, CW, etc), CW is CW, Phone is A
to run
dry…..
73 Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 8:20 AM k1zm--- via Topband
wrote:
> Hi Gang
>
>
> It is mid summer here and E season on 6M has been fun to play with while
> 160m is pretty S L O W as it usually is.
> On these pages there has been alot of chatter rega
Thanks for all the replies. My friend is probably going to go with a DLW
custom filter. I'm embarrassed that I forget about the common mode choke
as I use them here on all bands especially 160M. I told him I'd help him
build one.
73 Mark K3MSB
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I have no practical experience with any of these filters and was wondering
what the TB Gang thought.
He would prefer one that handled 1.5 KW but I told him he may have to
settle for 200W.
He prefers an "out of the box" solution.
Thanks
Mark K3MSB
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important. So there’s a tradeoff to be considered.
Comments?
Due to real estate considerations, I can put up only 2 one-half wavelength
resonant radials
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I’d be interested in hear about this also. I’ve always used ground
radials for my INV-L but this year I’d like to try an FCP.
I’ve read that the INV-L as well as the FCP need to be floated during
receive, which means two relays at the INV-L.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 4:11 AM
They get "ticked" off ....
Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 11:10 AM Doug Renwick wrote:
> Why do people leaving a list always have to announce it? To make sure
> everyone knows how good they are and how bad everyone else is that's left
> so
> that we can all feel b
carry a 160M Dipole with me (had to get my money's
worth for the checked baggage fee..). We had planned to spend one
night on 160 with a dipole hung off the 250 Ft transmitter tower, but
logistically we just couldn't do it. Hopefully next time towards the fall
of the year!!
73 Mark K3MSB
them. See
attached photo. You can see where they laid some new radicals. To the
right is where new radicals were laid a while ago.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Tue, May 14, 2019, 3:06 PM Gary Smith wrote:
> An observation to share about buried
> radials surfacing is, It surely has to
> happen
Joel is right; all my 160M antennas went down 2 weeks ago.Grass to mow
etc.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 10:41 AM wrote:
> Greetings Nick,
>
> With spring here in the south I have begun taking down all of my RX
> antennas in preparation for hay cutting in the
K3MSB
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From: Mark K3MSB
Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 7:28 AM
Subject: VKs This Morning
Hello Everyone
I could not sleep this morning and got up at 2:30 AM. I went down to the
shack and not much was cooking on 160 or 80, so I did some research for
some
Eh? Details?
On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 1:09 PM Charles Yahrling And how about the ARRL encouraging AM ops to expand their use of top band
> in the latest ARRL promotional email?
>
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no further problems.
Fun to build.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 2:16 PM Keith Hanson I don't know where you can find them now, but you will have to pry my K5
> from my cold dead hands!! Seriously, I built a WinKeyer for Field Day use
> and found it very nice with the adv
an email out to him and I am checking
LoTW periodically well, more than periodically..
I'm waiting for Rod Serling to walk around the corner.. "Here we have
one Mark K3MSB, an unknowing visitor to the Twilight Zone..."
Days like this are what make all the days upon days
I used double runs of WD-1A for my RBOG last year and it worked nicely.
For each run I combined the two wires of the WD-1A.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 4:05 PM Herbert Schoenbohm <
herbert.schoenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Terry, I have learned the hard way that WD-1A, i
One of the reason you make an INV-L a bit longer is to address the
capacitance you need to tune out the inductive reactance. Capacitance and
capacitive reactance is an inverse relationship. See attached graph.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:59 AM F Z_Bruce wrote
but
not as good into western EU.
Running a KW into my INV-L, and my RX antenna is a HI-Z 3.
I noted 3V8 was on the air last night….. unfortunately, I noticed it this
morning…… maybe tonight!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 10:45 AM Jim - WS6X This morning from - 0230 (Tuesday evening, local
ox will have to wait until the final mowing of
the yard, and I hope that will be tomorrow.
With business constraints, I'm targeting Nov 10th to have the HI-Z 3 on
the air and all radials run for the INV-L.
That's the plan and we all know how plans go
73 Mark K3MSB
On Tue, Oct 30, 20
For my case it’s pretty simple. As long as the grass is growing and needs
mowed, no 160M antennas.
Typically Nov 1 is when I do the last mowing, and it takes several weeks
afterwards to get everything up and running.
73 Mark K3MSB
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eally know the facts, or are we just
reacting in general to a newbie leaving the sandbox -- because a newbie
leaving is bad?
73 Mark K3MSB
On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:54 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
> Okay, bear with me...
>
> Perhaps we here ought to have a Code Of Conduct. Something along the
/temp/zone17_18_160M.jpg
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and working by mid-November. Lord
willing..
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he next TB
Season.
So hopefully I'll see some of you for some Wednesday night fun in late June.
73 Mark K3MSB
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with gravy) and egg breakfast with more (non-decaff) coffee!!
What a morning here. country #131 for me on 160M and Zone #30 as well
which is also my 30th zone on TB!
Thanks Luke and Ron!!
73 Mark K3MSB
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Carl
I learned that polarization is not predictable after the first ionospheric
bounce.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Carl Luetzelschwab <
carlluetzelsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Polarization - As Jerry K4SAV stated, the electron gyro-frequency plays an
> important
. Maybe add another
few radials for the INV-L.
Of course, I’ve been wanting to build a rotating loop for 160/80 and KH1
might be the excuse I need!
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bounce.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018, 9:03 PM Steve Maki <li...@oakcom.org> wrote:
> Interesting. Some say that on 160 vertical polarization rules, while on
> 80, horizontal polarization rules (or at least *often* rules). Of course
> polarization and angle of arrival are two d
S5-6 on my NE BOG. S10+ on my INV-L.
FM19ut @0055Z.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:53 PM, <donov...@starpower.net> wrote:
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No copy on you last night in PA using my E/NE BOG.
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again last night; twice he
came back and faded into the noise so I was unable to log him again.
I second Ken’s comments about Roger and the Wednesday activity night!
Great idea Roger!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Feb 22, 2018 8:04 AM, "Kenneth Grimm" <gr...@sbc.edu> wrote:
> Thank
on ground game for years; I think this year I want
to try a pair of elevated radials as Mike W0BTU suggests.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 6:56 PM, Charles Moizeau <w...@msn.com> wrote:
> Well it is understandable. The current maximum in the half-wave antenna
> is lifted w
sigs on TB and I worked several of them
(all “repeats” but they didn’t seem to care).
73 Mark K3MSB
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I've been doing other thingsin the shack and have heard EU stations CQing
and CQing on TB but I don't answer as they're in my log quite a few
times. Should I answer?
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and headed
upstairs to watch some Star Trek Voyager on Netflix. My consolation
prize was working UK9AA for a “new one” on TB later in the evening (and man
was he ever weak……).
Hopefully things will improve tonight…. But I have 6.5 seasons of Voyager
left in case they don’t…….
73 Mark K3MSB
is asking for problems. I
typically use 250 Hz and make sure my RIT is well oiled.If a station
successfully encroaches on my run frequency such that I have to go to (say)
a 100 Hz filter, I find another frequency – there’s plenty of real-estate
on 160M.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Dec 7, 2017 12:07 PM
commented to my team mates that if there was no contest I doubt you would
have heard any activity on 15M.
Looking forward to this weekend’s festivities…..I heard you calling CQ
last evening but a bunch of stations answered so I moved on down the band.
73
Mark K3MSB
On Dec 1, 2017 9:03 AM, "
>>established band usage
Out of curiosity, exactly who "established" 1840 + 2.5 KHz as the FT8
"window"?
Mark K3MSB
On Nov 29, 2017 12:04 PM, "Brian D G3VGZ" <topb...@planet3.freeuk.co.uk>
wrote:
I shall be operating this weekend full legal limit *bel
only to TB but also to amateur radio in
general. As long as it's kept civil, I'm willing to listen.
Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Bob Wolters <bobw...@hal-pc.org> wrote:
> Is there another more appropriate forum/reflector for discussions of
> different modes and operat
ing on 80m band. The spare K3 has arrived, but has not yet passed
customs.
And I'm on vacation through Monday.. :-)
73 Mark K3MSB
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Only if they used a credit card and a remote station that they didn't
build!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Oct 26, 2017 2:28 PM, "DXer" <hfdxmoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Mark,
So, if I use the same 'rational' some people here seems to use, those DXCC
awards earned with full legal power,
for, or rolling up in one
that you’ve spent years restoring?
I think that pretty much answers your question.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Oct 26, 2017 1:45 PM, "DXer" <hfdxmoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For those that say FT8 makes it too easy to win awards, climb the DXCC
> ladder,
of the software design). The ability to easily add
new band/mode combinations will be essential to facilitate new modes that
will be available in the future.Like I posted before, it’s not rocket
science to get this done.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Oct 26, 2017 12:31 PM, "Dave AA6YQ" <aa...@
GREAT Report Jeff! Enjoyed it immensely!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Jun 4, 2017 6:02 AM, "k1zm--- via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
wrote:
> Hi All
>
>
> While it is still fresh in my mind and while I have a few moments this
> morning, I thought I might pass alo
Thanks for that very interesting update Jeff.
May I inquire as to the reason Chak no longer has antennas at his home
JT1CO site?
73 Mark K3MSB
On Jun 1, 2017 11:27 PM, "k1zm--- via Topband" <topband@contesting.com>
wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
>
> Having just returned from J
and not just
manifestations of emotion.
That being said, I do think we've just about beaten this poor horse to
death and are now working on the bones..
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Cecil Acuff <chac...@cableone.net> wrote:
> This discussion is goin
rk CW".....
Mark K3MSB
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 5:16 PM, <buscemij...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> * ...What makes an RTTY QSO run off your computer (since u retired the
> Model 23) any different than a JT65 QSO...OR...using your memory (computer
> ?) keyer to work CW ? It
the light of competition based upon human striving and
skill, they are in a different category. They are not good or bad, they
are not valid or invalid; they are just different. Technology has moved
on to the point where the existing rules need to be changed.
Mark K3MSB
On May 21, 2017 6:20
on 160, but compare them to the guys in the
same situation that work TB DX on CW / SSB and take years to do it.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 4:39 AM, Victor Goncharsky via Topband <
topband@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Wrong.
> Both in SSB and AM cases the operator's skill
clock went off at
1100Z. It was ignored...
73 Mark K3MSB
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Wes Stewart <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote:
> I'm an old ham but relatively new to top band. Last night from here was
> amazing. I heard lots of EUs and managed to work S58N for my first
Both the original and remake are great flicks!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Dec 6, 2016 1:55 PM, "ersmar" <ers...@verizon.net> wrote:
It's a Coke bottle on a Morse key and flapping window blind in San
Francisco. (For you youg'uns, check out On the Beach on Netflix.)
73 d
3830 Scores -> Contest Summaries is one source, 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> wrote:
> Not by me, I assure you, but several have been reported after this
not a seasoned contester so maybe the regulars have learned to
deal with it.
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rolled out under the INV-L and the BOG is not up yet
(fortunately the ground rods are pounded in.. I hate 8 foot ground
rods. thankfully my son helped with the pounding).
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Herbert Schoenbohm <he...@vitelcom.net>
wrote:
> On six met
there…..).
73 Mark K3MSB
On Oct 17, 2016 12:29 PM, "Kip Edwards" <kedwa...@ltol.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> The BOG here is 190 feet. It works very well and is quite
> directional. As a result of my experience so far, I'm thinking of a second
> one for the o
may be the better option.
So, with only 200 feet to play with, is it worth it?
I've no doubt BOGs work, I may not have the room for them.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Oct 17, 2016 9:35 AM, "Lloyd - N9LB" <lloydb...@charter.net> wrote:
> I have been asked how I arrived at the 290 foot
haven't found any literature that addresses this consideration.
Comments?
73 Mark K3MSB
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contact with Mike AB0X and he has used the antenna in
the past with success, as has my friend Glenn K3SWZ.
I'm intrigued with this antenna as I can avoid my radial field with it.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Bob K6UJ <k...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> I think you ar
Hello All --
Do any of you have any experience with this antenna ?
73 Mark K3MSB
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glad Frank and family are OK. Antennas can be replaced; people can't.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Art Snapper <a...@nk8x.net> wrote:
> I am sad to pass along a report that Frank's station took a hit from an EF0
> tornado. There was some tower damag
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0615/
<http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0615/DA-16-676A1.pdf>
DA-16-676A1.pdf
<http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016/db0615/DA-16-676A1.pdf>
73 Mark K3MSB
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dogfight!!
This ends my 2nd season on TB, and it is a super band to chase DX on.
Next season, Lord willing, RX antennas will be up here!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Tim Shoppa <tsho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well that was amazing. FT4JA super-easy copy in W3 for several hou
hem on 80M (myself included) !!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:27 PM, George <w8...@voyager.net> wrote:
> 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
hallenging (at least for me!)
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Tim Shoppa <tsho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There was a huge NA-EU 160M opening last night and I was surprised to work
> 50 Europeans on one night, outside a contest. I'm sure that 160M veterans
> can tell me
above and below 470,
the SWR moved as expected. Since the transformer is 9:1, I felt this
showed the coax and transformer were OKI.
Comments welcome.
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on the INV-L, I switch to
the EWE and the signal disappears.
It's just not working guys. The transformer is pointed NE towards EU,
and the resistor is pointed SW.
I've checked just about everything I know to check, and the EWE just ain't
workin' for me! Ideas?
73 Mark K3MSB
On Mon, Dec 7
>>He was the furthest DX contact
Same here!
73 Mark K3MSB
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Jim F. via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
wrote:
> Couldn't believe hearing N5IA before dawn this morning and
> got him in the log.
> He was the furthest DX contact - by far - a
the source of my nasty 160M noise.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:14 AM, K4OWR <k2...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I will indeed be in there trying out all my new CW interface goodies.
> I have not really operated CW in a contest in many years.
> BTW FYI in the CQ 160 co
yard where it will point N/S. I really would like the EWE for
EU DX, but if it's not working, then a N/S attempt may be in order.
73 Mark K3MSB
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Tim Shoppa <tsho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to concur with SM0MDG's comments about receive
By the way, there is a thread on 160M Noise Levels that is active.
Is the noise that I'm seeing common to what others are seeing? If it is,
that means it's not local to me (which doesn't mitigate the EWE issue.)
73 Mark K3MSB
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Greetings fellow Top Band enthusiasts!
I'm Mark K3MSB, and I live south of York PA. This is my first time posting
to this list.
I’ve been licensed for 43 years and got on 160M in November 2014, so this
is the start of my second year. Why I didn’t get on TB sooner is a
question I keep asking
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