Great Results Dennis!  Sounds like your “Lazy L” worked pretty well.  I got on for several short sessions.  We had company one night and today was my XYL, Sunnye’s, B-Day.  We went to Little Rock to see Hamilton and then to dinner at the Faded Rose.   I made 274 Qs with 131 Multipliers… around 107K points.  Conditions on 80/160 seemed decent on Saturday night but I had an intermittent S8 noise source that dampened the fun there.  I found ZF5T on a few bands and caught Bill on 15M Sunday morning.  Will try to block out the weekend next year and work at it a little harder.  I heard W5ZN, W5RZ, K5FUV banging away.

73,

Pat, W5VY

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dennis Schaefer
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2022 5:54 PM
To: ADXA <[email protected]>
Subject: [ADXA] ARRL CW DX contest - W5RZ

I had fun in the contest - did my usual 7-8 hours of a 48 hour contest.  Results were not terrible for a very casual effort - 534 Q's, 205 multipliers, 327,000 points.

15 meters was best with good openings to EU and JA.  I was looking forward to a good EU opening on 10 meters but it never happened.  I got one station here and there, and worked SM, G, F, EA, etc, but there were never numbers of EU stations on 10.  I did work a handful of ZL/VK and it seemed like every licensed KH6. 

The surprise was 160 meters. I have never really had an antenna for that band.  The best I ever did was with my 130 foot zepp with the feedline tied together to make a T vertical. 

I have an EFHW out in the woods, about 200 feet from the house, that I use as a second antenna when I want to monitor on another rig.  I took the EFHW transformer out and fed it against ground as a (sorta) Inverted-L.  There was no counterpoise, only a short ground rod for a static drain for the EFHW.  The wire went up about 25 feet, sloped as it went out to a height of 35 feet, and then came back down.  I thought it might get me a contact with Bill at ZF5T.  I was very surprised to work 13 stations in 10 multipliers, most in Europe.  I ended up getting ZF5T on all bands, and also ZF1A.  The convoluted, much too low, inverted-L performed like a champ!

Kenwood TS-590S, Force 12 C-3 at 56 feet, 40 and 80M dipoles, and 160M inverted-L.  Amp is an AL-811 400-500 watts.

I heard ZN and FUV and FXB a lot.  Also others, I'm sure.  I heard K5UR and W5AAJ - yeah, lots of ADXA'ers on.

73,

Dennis