[LeArc] North American QSO party

[Franklin D Wolverton]

Now begins the prepaarations for the QSO party.  I thought I would try
something different, and wait until 1/2 hour before the contest starts to
begin my set-up.

If any of you remember, I have no facilities for permenant antennas, so I
have to just throw them out the window when I want to operate.  Plus, I live
on the second floor, so I have a grounding problem.  No access to any cold
water pipes or anything, so I am going to just run a length of wire off of
the radio as a counterpoise.  I just have to remember now if it is supposed
to be 1/4 or 1/2 wavelength.

I have a new antenna to try for this contest.  I have a 20 meter double
bazooka dipole I am going to try (still have the homebrew 20 in case it
doesn't work).  I plan on just operating 20, but if for some reason 20 dies,
I have the materials to throw together a 40M dipole... will just have to
figure out how to throw it up.  May try to see if an inverted-v sloper will
work.  Just have to wait and see.

As usual, I will post my total scores here when I am done.  I plan on
operating the whole 10 hours available to a single op this time, instead of
just a few, as I did in November Sweeps.

Frank N9OE