Topband: Windows 10 Update heads up

Last update deleted my audio drivers and installed defaults that tie the front and rear jacks together, makes a lot of digital programs not work. Reinstalled my Realtek drivers and all back to life.   I use the rear output to the radio and the front for computer output like YouTube, Music etc.

Topband: Alpha 76PA - SOLD

The amp has found a good hope Rick N6PE _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector

Topband: FS: Alpha 76 PA

I have a nice amp gathering dust, three hole Alpha with QSK, grid protection, WARC plate choke, new bandswitch, 2 x plate current meter, gumless cabinet and front panel.Since doing the plate choke mod I haven't retuned the inputs. The amp still puts out between 500-900 watts. There are some

Topband: Spectrum

Hi all, I had Uverse TV and 1 KW blew away their modem, anyone operating QRO using Spectrum for TV, Phone and Internet ? I assume would have a box with DVR and WIFI.  Any problem with any feature being blown away or hash in recorded programs? If it works better than my ATT and DirecTV I might go

Topband: RFI

First let me say I was the ARRL TVI coordinator back in the 70s and have a ton of ferrite on the DirecTV dish leads, box and TV, but this is an interesting one: I have 3 LED lights in the Hallway, they are on a 3-Way switch at each end of the hall.If they are on with the front dimmer/switch,

Topband: DirecTV 160 RFI

Mine went away when I disconnected the receiver from WIFI. Rick N6PE == Dying is easy, the hard part is living _ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector

Topband: 160 meter opening

Guys, check you computers, 160M RFI may have triggered "Morse Runner" and you were working yourself hi hi It is amazing how being 3-400 miles more north opens you to EU more often  Rick N6PE == Dying is easy, the hard part is

Topband: Sale details

I guess the link didn't make it 16702 Spruce Circle, Fountain Valley, CA dates  friday 2019-07-19 9 am   saturday 2019-07-27 8 am   sunday 2019-07-28 10 am Rick N6PE == Dying is easy, the hard part is living

Topband: NN6W estate sale

Gary play with a lot of 160 antennas and had a lot of stuff Huge 60 year collection of Ham & amateur radios & manuals ESTATE SALE | | | | | | | | | | | Huge 60 year collection of Ham & amateur radios & manuals ESTATE SALE Grasons Estate Sales will be putting on an estate sale of my

Topband: FT-8 vs CW

So how many of us still send the whole QSO with a key?Buttons on my Pro III do most of the work (like mouse clicks with FT-8), I only send the other station's call (like typing it in with FT-8) I have a friend here in Yorba Linda running 100W to a short vertical that never worked east of the

Topband: DX last night

I went to bed at 11pm PDST and left FT-8 on until I got up about 8:30 am. Here are the stations that decoded at my super station hi hi list first to last CQ so you get an idea of the windows.Oddly enough I can use a VK for DXCC but just don't want to be on at the time they are hi hi 055000  -5 

Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 191, Issue 16

The ARRL will probably start a new award, Worked All OK1RD Calls  Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 2:48 AM, topband-requ...@contesting.com wrote: Send Topband mailing list submissions to     topband@contesting.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide

Topband: Inverted L trap concoction

I used to operate every year in the ARRL 160 contest starting in about 1975. Tried every kind of short ground mounted vertical (less than 35 ft) devised by man over a pretty extensive radial system I buried when the lot was just dirt. Also shunt feeding the 35 ft tower, loaded sloper off the

Topband: FS Alpha 76 PA

Has full QSK  and grid overdrive protections, tubes still put out 500-900W or more, plated choke from AL-1500 so WARC bands OK.See my QRZ page for details.New output bandswitch installed. Have 160 DXCC now so don't need it hi hi Hate to see it going to waste. Cannot ship. Can be modified for 6M

Topband: DXCC

Well it has only taken 20 years but I finally made DXCC on Topband so my super powerful station will not be knocking you out of the pile ups anymore hi hi You have to love Yorba Linda's 35 foot tower limit :-) Thanks to all that dug me out of the noise. | DXCC Award | New LoTW QSLs | LoTW

Topband: To JT or not to JT

There is no question. get them anyway you can mixed. If you want an all CW, SSB or Digital, go for it but don't belittle guys that don't have 500 ft. beverages in 6 directions and full size 4 squares for transmitting. I have 91 countries on topband with an S-7/8 noise level and if it

Topband: JT-65

It is totally amazing, I have an S-7 noise level, cannot hear a peep of any kind of audio and I decode signals and make contacts with the ghost stations on 1838.I hope 8-9 DX guys come up so I can finish DXCC on 160 hi hi Rick

Topband: 160 Power

In contests I call a lot of guys barefoot first and kick on the amp as needed. Problem is usually a guy running full power can be heard out here but has an S-8 noise level and can't hear 100W..Yes you can work a lot of DX with low power, but as an ex-QRP club member I learned life if too short,

Topband: Antenna Question

Hi all, My current LB antenna is an old Create 40/80 Vertical mounted about 20 feet off the ground with a bunch of radials at the base. I removed the Create 40 M trap and extended the mast to about 35 feet. At about 33 feet I have a homemade 40M trap in a horizontal wire out about 85 feet with

Topband: Free 160 RX Loop - So Cal.

  I have a nice 5' on a side tunable coax loop that goes from below 160 to about 4.5 mzh. free to the taking can't ship   There is also a KD9SV 160 PREAMP I modified to include the control of the loop and a switch for two different RX antennas, that is $70if you take the loop too.  

Topband: Alpha Choke

Hi all,   Does anyone know the uH of each section of the switched plate choke in newer Alpha amps the work 160-10 including WARC bands? Thanks,   Rick, N6PE ==  Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. _ Topband Reflector

Topband: Westek

My DSL is from U-verse 3K. I'm near the end of the line, it comes in fiber to about 1/2-mile of the house then thru 45 yo phone wires. With the filter in, 160 RFI is cured but there is considerable loss and S/N reduction. Rick, N6PE ==  Talk is cheap... except

Topband: PT0S

I hope all the propagation programs are wrong, otherwise there doesn't appear to be much chance to work them from my S-8 noise level in W6 land hi hi Rick, N6PE ==  Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. ___

Topband: FCP

Gents,   I have an inverted L about 16' above ground with many radials on my roof. Would the K2AV FCP be effective connected as a radial ? I have a DX Engineering Choke at the feed point. The antenna has big traps for 40/80 and I can tune it to any band with my 3 KW Nye Tuner so I don't want to

Topband: Stew Perry

44 QSO's . I think 4 were above ESP/noise here.   Thanks for the repeats Rick, N6PE ==  Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. ___ Remember the PreStew coming on October 20th. http://www.kkn.net/stew

Topband: Radial connections

Hi all,   When I had my house tented I had to disconnect the radials on my inverted L.   There is a 20 foot pipe that sticks up about 3 feet above the roof and the insulated vertical section is fed there with a big ferrite choke.   The radials were connected at the base 3 feet above the roof.  

Topband: Logger32 and LOTW

Logger32 will send and download your log to ARRL without you having to do a lot of work, Click Click Click. Spots are also high lighted as LOTW users I worked an FK8 on 6 meters and he says: For direct return postage to some countries, sorry but USD2  is not sufficient. USD3 is OK. Euros are

Topband: QSL Manager

Anyone know the QSL manager that inserts a note saying he collects stamps? I've been saving them, but forgot who wants them.   Thanks Rick, N6PE == ___ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK

Topband: 160 Conditions from ORG

Worst conditions in a long time last night. Worked a couple of VE2,3, 6 an 7s, KL7, KH6, all the 6's 7', and most all 8, 9, and 0s. GA, KY, TN, VA, AR, LA lone CE and XE. Didn't bother staying up or getting up for the JA openings. 45 mult's so far but only 100 Qs, usually 2-300 Qs and 55-60

Topband: BCB interference on 160

Hi all,   I recently built a sheilded RX loop for 160 per N6RKs Contest Jouranal artical. It is diode tuned and covers about 1.5-4 mhz. I am hearing two AM radio stations on 1830 khz. They are 640 and 1190 combined. 640 is a 50KW station about 12 miles east and 1190 runs about 1.5 kw at night.  

Topband: Loop problem - Solved, well maybe

Thanks to all that replied.   I put on the thinking cap and connected the loop directly to the RX antenna and the intermod is still there.   Getting out the ladder and changing the tuning diodes to the strong signal configuration.   At least it is not the weekend of the 160 contest. Rick,

Topband: Vertical

Experts needed, I am using an old Create vertical mounted 20 feet above ground with about 60 radials of various lenghts. I removed the original Create 40 meter trap because it usually spit fire and extended the vertical to about 40 feet long. At about 33 feet I come off to a large homebrew