[Elecraft] 160 m contest

[Lars Edwards]

David

I had the same experience but with just 10W and an ~ 1/30th wavelength
vertical with no radials I can understand a few repeats being required !

What was fun was the 20 QSO's / 14 states and 1 Canadian province in about
an hour total operating time during the contest.

Obviously a lot of folks had some good antennas and ears.

Next year I will have a much better antenna.

Lars


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David A. Belsley" <belsley at bc.edu>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:47 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] 160 m contest


> Well, it sure was fun to exercise the K2/100 on top band over the
> weekend.  It was a challenge to get my homemade Italian antenna tuner
> (it looks like a plate of spaghetti) to deal with the inductive
> reactance of my newly shortened antenna (142" flat top, center fed with
> open-wire line), but, after pulling a couple of good-ol' 365pf
> multigang broadcast-band variable caps from the junk box, the job was
> successfully accomplished.
>
> And, boy, did it get out.  Why, I got 599s from everyone I worked!
> Although it was clear that a number of those ops were quite poor with
> their code, because they had to ask me several times to repeat my
> state, despite my s9 signal strength.  That's what happens when you
> dust off your cw only every now and again for contests.  But I do
> realize that receiving an M and an A in rapid succession can be taxing,
> even for the best of us.
>
> Meanwhile, the K2 did work beautifully and the filters were fantastic
> at removing the effects of nearby 30-over-9 stations.  It's too bad it
> takes a contest to get that kind of activity on 160 meters.
>
> best wishes,
>
> dave belsley, w1euy
>
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