[ADXA] ARRL International DX Contest - CW

[w5zn at w5zn.org]

Thanks for the post Chuck. I was curious how you did.

As you well know (obviously since you have two) those antennas work 
exceptionally well. Several of the locals here in Searcy are using the 
JK Navassa 5 which has two full size elements on 20 thru 10.

I began migrating to the JK MidTri which has 3 full size elements on 20, 
4 on 15 and 5 on 10 meters. Individually they have better F/B than my M2 
KT36XA and the forward gain appears similar. In a stack they fully 
outperform the KT36. I will never use an antenna with traps, regardless 
of the type of trap, again.

73 Joel W5ZN

On 2022-02-21 15:55, Chuck R. Korzendorfer wrote:

> Guys,
> That was a fun radio weekend, & I have to say I have never seen so much 
> activity from Arkansas in any major contest.  I heard five stations 
> from the NW area alone, unfortunately not all are ADXA members.  It 
> used to be Arkansas was a semi-rare state in this event, but not this 
> year.
> 
> I operated as SOABUnlimited this go around, which was different for me. 
>  I finished with 1,359 Qs & 315 mult's.  Full breakdown is on the 3830 
> site if you are interested.  The overall conditions from Fayetteville 
> were really good.  I agree with Dennis's assessment of 10 M.  When I 
> couldn't hear ZF5T on 10 Saturday afternoon I thought it was going to 
> be a total bust, but things improved on Sunday with good propagation to 
> SA & the Pacific, but only a few European stations.  I have always been 
> fascinated with propagation on 10M.  I like to compare it to ocean 
> currents & the jet stream was just tickling Europe for me.
> 
> Current station set-up is a TS-590S & AL-1500 amp.  I have a pair of 
> short boom yagis on a 70' tower with a rotatable dipole for 40 on top.  
> Inverted V for 80 & a barely functional L for 160.  No receive antenna 
> for the low bands.  The tribanders are the same design that K5GO/N5DX 
> built for WRTC IN 2014.  With a 15' boom K5GO always called these guys 
> TV antennas, but they really deliver a big "boom for the buck".  I am 
> convinced they out-perform a pair of TH6s I had up years ago.
> 
> Congrats to W5SJ & the ZF5T team for apparently winning the whole thing 
> in their category.  We need Bill to twist K5GO's arm for a presentation 
> of the ZF5T station at a future meeting.
> 73. Chuck KM5G
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Feb 21, 2022, at 11:00 AM, w5zn at w5zn.org wrote:
> 
>> I'm in recovery today and catching up on email. I'm very pleased to 
>> see the large number of ADXA folks who jumped in the pool, even if it 
>> was in the shallow end !
>> 
>> My results in the Single Op All Band (SOAB) UNasssited category were 
>> 2,120 Q's, 340 mults for a final claimed score of 2,162,400. Rather 
>> than post my summary here you can read my write up on 3830 at:
>> 
>> https://www.3830scores.com/showrumor.php?arg=xja1zOssmsqm3
>> 
>> I've spent the past year transitioning the antennas from a VHF contest 
>> focus to an HF contest focus and have added an additional 40 meter 
>> beam as well as moving the HF antennas to a 3x stack on JK MidTri's. I 
>> still have the third one to put up in the next couple of months. So, 
>> if you were here for the ADXA meeting a couple of years ago things 
>> have changed a good bit with the antennas!
>> 
>> Now to get the log in to ARRL.
>> 
>> 73 Joel W5ZN
>> 
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