[PVRCNC] W4MY CQ160 - CW

[Marty Young]

CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: W4MY
Operator(s): Marty Young
Station: W4MY

Class: Single-Op-Assisted High 
Section: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 12 

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 214  State/Prov = 44  Countries = 6  Total Score = 25,550

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

The HWV (Helix Wound Vertical) I made specially for this contest worked surprisingly well.  It was about 260 feet of wire wrapped around telescoping PVC pipe 2:1-1/2:1 diameter 27 feet tall at about 5/8" between turns all the way up.  48" dia cap hat.  30 radials 35' long around about 270 degsAzimuth (missing 90 was due east).  It received adequately, but then, that's all I had to receive with, so I guess it did splendidly!  It had a nice 2:1 bandwidth of about 25Kc when I matched the feed point using 2000pf/1000V fixed capacitor.  That told me it had a decent Q and I was happy.  1830KHz was the center freq and I trimmed up the edges of the SWR curve with the rig tuner.  Did fine.  Everyone I called heard me fine, and my one small run was quite productive.  All on top band QRP of 100W!

I went assisted to the cluster Sunday morning at dawn because I wasn't finding Hawaii which I need for 160 WAS.

I couldn't spend any more time than I did because I had to concentrate on some very large personal issues taking place over the weekend.  But I proved this antenna DOES work and maybe better than a low dipole, because I did work 2 Hawaii, busting the pileup with 100W!  Whoo-hooo!


So, that's my report.  Respectfully submitted,  Marty Young / W4MY.