If Dietmar can not pull your signal out of the noise, nobody can. His S/N
threshold performance is somewhere well south of minus 10 dB. I have sat next
to him and listened to him work stations I could only just detect.
I will never forget him stumbling out of the VP6DX 160 tent after
Hi George
if you have the opportunity, a high angle receive antenna for the hours at and
just after sunset may serve you well
a receiving dipole at 15 ft accounted for a large percentage of contacts during
that period from XZ0A - unlikely you can do that but any horizontal dipole might
Hi George
I could hear you well enough on 1827.5 to ID over my city lot S8 noise in So
Calif, but no chance you would hear my 100 watts and a random wire
The guys fussed at me when I added a dozen full length radials to the Titanex -
we already had about 8 - it was up on the hard pan of the
Be sure to check your high angle receive antennas near Sunset and Sunrise,
especially during this period of high solar activity and wide polar oval.
A low receiving dipole (10-15 ft) accounted for upwards of 50% of our NA
contacts from XZ0A, and we were always heard in central-eastern NA on a
that's where added half space has a useful point. your increase in copied
accuracy should more than offset the decrease in spot accuracy
the ZIP speed change for any part is the first thing I get rid of sitting down
at a position, the pico gain in time is far offset by the annoyance and
DXpediton style
take 3-4 feet of bare solid # 10 # 12 copper wire and make a loop around the
base of the antenna support- make it larger if necessary, wrap and solder the
ends of the loop
Wrap a couple turns from each radial around the loop wire. Solder. The joints
are far enough apart to
PLEASE lets NOT go down the digital ruined the world rabbit hole again!
its a discussion for a different venue PLEASE
I am not a moderator, just a list member with a sore delete finger. I DO want
to hear what the folks actually on the air are accomplishing. but I do NOT want
to hear doom and
PLEASE lets NOT start the FT8 /digital modes arguments again on this reflector,
good, bad or indifferent. take the arguments and discussion elsewhere, please
Robin
- Original Message -
From: "Hans Hjelmström"
To: "Bob Kile"
Cc:
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2022 10:38
Subject: Re:
very much so.
Thailand wants paint on everything called a tower
Robin
- Original Message -
From: "cqtestk4xs--- via Topband"
To:
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2022 10:28
Subject: Topband: Painted towers
The 200 ft painted tower rule is not the same all over the world. My tower in
Hi Steve
Did you try a high angle receive antenna? Not so sure on this end, but when we
were working skew paths from XZ0A we simply had to have a cloud warmer receive
antenna in order to hear anything until a couple hours after local dark. Went
several days of near nothing until we put up a
Look into the sources of advertizing balloons. I bought one shaped as a
dirigible about 25 years ago to
lift my vertical. It was moderately successful for the HS72B operation, but it
was quite a lot of
commotion and trouble and cost. I do not recall the size of wire I used, but
it was not
at XZ0A the situation was a bit different - high in the solar cycle so the polar oval was in the way for
a lot of paths. The signals we could hear in the first couple of hours at sunset arrived out of some
kind of duct and were dumped down on us at a high angle. We could not hear anything on
At XZ0A we would not have made about 50% of our NA contacts if we had not installed a low receiving
dipole. It was the ONLY antenna that could hear NA stations for the hours at sunset and just after.
These were clearly skew paths as the NA stations all had to use antennas aimed to the SW in
I have observed that airport related TIS seem to be going away for lack of public interest. The one for
LAX was decommissioned more than 10 years ago. It takes regular daily time and effort from a duty person
to record updates and current useful information. The vast majority of travelers get
M A Y B E this started out on topic about topband
My delete key is getting annoyed. How about take the DXCC desk practices discussion - and the language
lessons - elsewhere
Robin WA6CDR
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Smith VE9AA"
To: ;
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 05:33
Receive only comment.
A low dipole - 15 feet average, uneven ground - Receive Only - accounted for something like 40% of the
contacts with NA from XZ0A. During the first 2 hours at Sunset, the low dipole heard signals that the
admittedly not all that good beverages could not hear at all.
Check your door bell transformer. And the button. If you shut off the main breaker and the noise is gone
it is likely something energized by the main power is generating noise.
If you switch off ALL the load breakers at the same time, the noise should be the same as when you shut
off the main.
And this is why we are so "addicted" to topband. It is indeed the magic band.
Every once in a while a few of us are gifted with some topband magic like this.
Nice report!
Robin, WA6CDR
VP6DX
XZ0A
XZ1N
&&
- Original Message -
From: "Artek Manuals"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, November 12,
Part of the anomalies in the regs that I am trying to show. They are "fixing" the problem with some of
these words, and they do not work properly. The license does not assign a station location. There is no
license associated with a stack of equipment or physical location until a licensed
this is a bit long, but I think explaining the hole in the rules and how they
apply to us is worthwhile..
.
Unfortunately, there is a significant hole in the regulations on this subject. An Amateur STATION in the
US no longer HAS an assigned call sign. - We used to be issued a license that
so why are you on the topband reflector?
stop wasting our time and bandwidth if you detest topband so much
robin
- Original Message -
From: "John Randall via Topband"
To:
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2019 14:33
Subject: Topband: Lack of QSO's
You guys in the US and elsewhere
Hi Steve
brief list of your RF/AF gear, please?
K3 dual RX at least, I am guessing
Thanks
Robin WA6CDR
- Original Message -
From: "VE6WZ_Steve"
To: "topband"
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 15:44
Subject: Topband: Diversity RX audio example
Today I decided to play with some
if Dietmar (DL3DXX) was involved, it is a very straight up operation - and his ears are worth 10 or 15 db
over a normal person...
Robin WA6CDR
XZ0A
VP6DX
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Waters"
To: "Bill Gillenwater"
Cc: "topband"
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:58
Subject:
Not quite
Milts N5IA, (nee K5FPO), callsign lives on nicely and actively as the club callsign for the flagship
station in the New Mexico segment of our UHF linked radio system - that, chronologically, came before I
got him interested in 160
==
I don't have usable logs for my first contact
of the contact.
thanks for responding
73
Robin, WA6CDR
- Original Message -
From: "vk3io"
To: "m.r.c." ;
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2018 03:00
Subject: Topband: ZL and W6KIP?? back in the 60's?
Robin,that may have been ZL2BT (also SK) and also whose name was also B
does anyone remember the sked between ZL and W6KIP(??) back in the 60s? I can not recall any details,
but I do remember hearing Alex (W6KIP???) every night during my very early years on top band. That's
when the band was severely limited in frequencies and power & we got to listen to LORAN.
Congratulations on a massive and successful effort under truly awful conditions.
You labored under physically extreme conditions. You got on the air. You STAYED on the air. You worked
steadily to improve based on what you learned - under conditions that are not even slightly conducive to
Make your station loud and with really good ears... Milt will indeed be
watching.
73
Robin, WA6CDR
- Original Message -
From: "Mike - W5JR"
To:
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 17:59
Subject: Re: Topband: NEW CALL for WA8WZG
Congrats, Tom. Yes, Milt will be watching.
tnx
simple lookup info
WKYW-AM 1490 kHz
Frankfort, Kentucky
"Passport Radio 1490" Station Format: Oldies
tell me about "Oldies" stations
find more Oldies stations
Website:
http://mypassportradio.com/
Audio Feed:
http://ice10.securenetsystems.net/WKYW.m3u
Station Owner:
Southern Belle, LLC
find
That, I can tell you from personal experience, is how that entire crew works. That's an
amazing and wonderfully supportive crew. We owe a great thinks to the captain, crew and
good ship Braveheart for many many successful and SAFE DXpeditions.
Robin Critchell, WA6CDR
member, VP6DX
-
It is shown with RCA connectors. Is it available with
F?
BNC?
I have generally found RCA connectors to be unsatisfactory in the long term for a variety
of reasons generally revolving around the "Astro" plate hard nickel surfaces. A large
number of 160 receive antenna systems are built with
can we cool the discussion on remote receivers and remote operation on this
reflector?
A rule change was reported upon. This is relevant and important topband
information
PERIOD.
My personal position on the matter is not important.
What IS important is keeping the discussions here to
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