Re: Topband: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â? the 1921 Transatlantic Test

2013-02-24 Thread James Rodenkirch
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Re: Topband: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â? the 1921 Transatlantic Test

2013-02-24 Thread Shoppa, Tim
W9AC writes: The antenna was a caged T-top with elevated counterpoise I had the opportunity to travel around China a lot last summer and saw many caged T-top or cage dipole antennas. Maybe they were cage dipoles, hard to tell from the distance I was at (typically I sighted them from tour buses

Re: Topband: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â? the 1921 Transatlantic Test

2013-02-24 Thread Eddy Swynar
On 2013-02-24, at 8:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: Tha's a great topic and I'm sure Frank will add a lot of interesting information. About twenty years ago, I became interested in the 1921 transatlantic tests and slowly began collecting information. The fall, 1921 issues of QST are a

Re: Topband: Webinar - The first Top Band DX Contest â? the 1921 Transatlantic Test

2013-02-23 Thread Paul Christensen
Tha's a great topic and I'm sure Frank will add a lot of interesting information. About twenty years ago, I became interested in the 1921 transatlantic tests and slowly began collecting information. The fall, 1921 issues of QST are a great source as is the Radio Club of America's (RCA) early