[160m] 160m Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3

[David Cutter]

Brian

A great encouragement to us all.  It reminds me of a local friend, G4IUF who 
uses low dipoles on 80 and 160, both bent around the garden - he is Honor 
Roll #1, though it's taken him many years.

73

David
G3UNA


>
> Good Afternoon:
>
> Last weekend I added a 100 foot wire to my existing counterpoise. I ran it
> from my ground rod, around the bottom of the house, and up toward the
> street. My counterpoise now consist of the following wires:
>
> Length
> (feet) Depth Comments
> ------ ----------
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> 45 Surface Runs along bottom of exterior house wall
>
> 50 1-inch Buried in lawn
>
> 85 1-inch Runs along backyard perimeter
>
> 100 Surface New. Runs along bottom of exterior house
> wall
>
> Adding the 100-foot wire had three effects:
>
> Previously, I had to do a bit of work to get a good match (1.3:1 SWR) at 
> the
> bottom of the band. Now, I can easily get a 1.0:1 match there.
>
> After I added the new wire, my ANC-4 noise canceller was more effective at
> nulling background QRM.
>
> Finally, it seems like my 160m noise floor may have gone down an S-unit or
> so.
>
> My antenna is an improvised 152-foot end-fed wire, up 12-feet, within a 50 
> x
> 50-foot backyard.
>
> Initial reports indicate that adding the 100-foot counterpoise wire did 
> not
> improve my transmit signal.
>
> This morning I had a pleasant surprise. At 1302 UTC on 1815.0 KHz I worked
> W8TE via CW. My power was 100-watts. I'm in southern California and he's 
> in
> Michigan! He was 599 by the way. That's my most distant 160m contact thus
> far.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian, KD6NRP
>
>