I'd like to thank everyone for their really helpful on & off list replies to my question about W1BB, no, not K1BB... :) I'm not as accurate as I remember being before... ;)
I'm a relative active newcomer to Top Band, getting on from this location in 07 and it took till 2010 to get the sloper and radials down, 2012 before getting the HI-Z triangular. Before that I was on for only one year, in 94 when I had a 110' tower in Illinois and made a shortened delta for 160, center base fed and ran that from the tower and adjusted the frequency by a Vac Variable controlled by servos. But that was it. I'd heard so much about Stew Perry, the contest. Someone once sent a link to a photo of the water tower in MA but I had no idea of what the significance was and all the discussion here has been for the most part about the contest as most everyone here already knew about the man himself & why the contest was named for him. I never bothered to ask and just let it go by as another contest & I am more a contester & DXer than a ragchewer though a good ragchew always makes for a good day. Thanks for the info about Jeff's book, DXing on the edge. I just ordered it this morning from Universal Radio using the link Jim K1PX provided. As was suggested, Amazon had it as well but used which is fine but for a bit more, I bought a new one. http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/books/3716.html I don't read that easily any more, had shingles of some of the cranial nerves last year (Ramsay Hunt) and it's affected my ability to readily focus up close, among other things but I'm looking forward to going through this apparently very substantial book, cover to cover. Thanks again for the abundance of great replies and links. 73 & HNY, Gary KA1J _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
