Very
nice results Jussi…35 zones on 15M is very cool. Sorry
you lost time with the power outage. Ask Santa (not
your YL) for a Genset.
With
your high gain antennas and 1500W you were probably
incredibly loud in some places. CW is narrow by
default…keying at 35wpm creates a small bandwidth of
about 35hz on each side of the carrier. Hard on/off
keying can create key-clicks that can be 1-10KHz wide.
I imagine your K4 has CW rise time limit options that
prevent it from doing that. Most likely the culprit is
just sheer overload of the RX front end. I ran most of
the contest with my Flex 8600 with 250Hz filter and
occasionally saw big signals that would appear to be
500Hz wide or so….they were S9+30 or more (ZF5T on
15M!). If you have a big signal you can expect to be
harassed!
I was
All band, HP assisted and made 551 Qs, 93 zones, 278
countries and 562K points. Watched the Razorbacks lose
at Football and Basketball and visited with friends who
came over. Six hours sleep both nights. My SteppIR
DB18E only works on 20-10M right now. Some of the
sweeps are clogged with something…copper tape elements
won’t extend fully. I put up a 40M inverted Vee about
10ft below the SteppIR and had some fun….112Qs, 16
zones, 61 cntys.
Biggest,
most chaotic, simplex pileup that I saw was on JW7QIA
in Zone 40 on 20M. Pile looked like a big quivering
blob on the panadapter!
73,
Pat,
W5VY
Hi,
Contest done! Not everything went according to the plan: 5
hour power outage hit us Sunday morning and I missed good
EU opening & dealing with the "signal police" who kept
harassing me :-(
Anyway, 1344 qsos, 122 countries, and 35 zones. This was
15m single band (unassisted).
Jussi (aa6kj)