John, you're waay too modest. It wasn't "several ofus", but YOU who developed that nifty Tropical Band Spectrum Log from scratch.It was a big hit in the (now sadly defunct) Fine Tuning group, which

Twenty years ago, several of us doing Tropical Band work developed aSpectrum Log format that we found enormously useful. Rather than,or along with keeping traditional chronological log books, we had

Gentlemen, I would so much enjoy a get together with you all. After all, we've been aquainted for so long. I'd love to meet Guy for the first time and finally put a face to the name! Darn, I'll be

As you know the 2008 Fall Follies DX Contest is rapidly approaching andGuy and I intend to help hold up the NW's reputation for looooongdistance reception. We have reserved Yurt #114 at Grayland Beach

Friends, With Paul Logan checking in (two new distance records) I think that weare up to date with all of the Ultralight World Distance Records....However, I'm convinced that most of the Western

October 14 (Day 6) brought 7 new stations for the Challenge, plus 3 new ones for my overall UL log: 780 WCKB Dunn NC 780 WWOL Forest City NC 1570 WFLR Dundee NY Both WCKB and WWOL currently put in

From professional connections, I know that Siemens toroids are widely available in Europe. There should be mixes comparable to the popular Amidon / Fair-Rite / Ferroxcube types (43, 61, 77, and 75/J)

KVNS and WTNI are both right on the Gulf of Mexico, so very high ground conductivity comes into play. Also, because these stations are quite southerly (along with some of the often-heard Florida

The KVNS pattern is supposed to be non-directional, but it pushes way out to the east due to the Gulf of Mexico being so close to the transmitter. They don't dominate here every night, but fairly

<bjohnorcas@...> wrote: The KVNS situation became a subject of great contention in another group I'm in. Several very experienced DXers suggested there might be something odd going on and

At 05:35 PM 10/14/2008 -0400, you wrote: Jay then noted: You make a good point, Jay.... I think that a couple of the other recordsin the low power Western Hemisphere area are from stations that may

Hi Jay, for some reason they come in well here - but so do WTNI on 1640 - I cant explain it - often I will hear KVNS mixing with several stations but often times it is dominating. Its not way above

John: I must agree we are really competing with ourselves when it comes to records. The only true way we could against one another would be to DX from the same QTH. Thus far I've heard stations on a

40 states? I'm only at 36 states overall, with a FRG-7 and longwires all over! :D 4 more states (to get to 40 overall) are going to be tough from Delaware. The closest states I have yet to log

Great, John..... Somehow, those got missed here! Thanks for the Heads UP... Yes, 75 Material and J Material is the same and works VERY well forchokes (refer to my article "Is your Lead-In an

John, THANK YOU for uploading your own personal records. You are correct,of course, that there is no way that most Ultralighters can compete forWorld or Western Hemisphere distance records with the

Hi John, I had emailed you maybe a week ago with some updates from here but I guess it got lost in the ether - I will post any further updates to the group, I'm having email difficulties with both my

There's no way I can match the UL logs that are coming in from the West Coast, Newfoundland or Europe. But part of the hobby is making and breaking personal records. I've gone through my UL log and