[SADXA] Operating stuff

[Jim English]

Wes,

Congrats on reaching 15k and level 4.  I'm still about 2700 short.  Don't
know if I will be able to get those in the next two weeks.  I really like
that 160m contest.  Unfortunately this year I was out of town and was not
able to participate.  A couple years back when I was still  in Oregon for
some reason the conditions were really bad and I only had about half the
Q's I had the year previous.  I didn't think much of that until almost a
year later I got a certificate  in the mail that claims I took first place
in Oregon.  Go figure.  Here in AZ I just have a 43' vertical so on 160m my
antenna looks like a 150pf cap in series with about 4 ohms of radiation
resistance in series with about 8 ohms of ground losses.  This is all fed
through 200' of coax with an in-shack tuner.  Needless to say.. it sucks!
Generally speaking, nobody can hear me.  Oh well, I do have a few contacts
on 160 but that's about all.

I'm sure there must have been quite a few of red-badges on that weekend so
there were plenty of points to be taken.  I did work the last hour of the
10m contest this weekend and probably picked up a few more.  I think in the
next few days I just might have to break down and actually call CQ.  I
 like to concentrate on the warc bands.  Especially 30m.

Congrats again on 15k, there are probably only a few in the club that will
get there.

See you at the party this Friday.

73,

Jim wo7v

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Wes (N7WS) <wes at triconet.org> wrote:
>
> I know several members of the club have more QSOs and/or higher scores,
> but today I reached "Level 4" in the ARRL Centennial challenge (>15,000
> points).  I concentrated more on the "high-value" targets and let the
> number of Qs fall where they may.
>
> On a semi-related note, I cobbled together a 160-meter antenna and played
> a little in the ARRL 160-meter contest. I made 121 Qs and worked 40 states
> and 7 countries.  Considering that my 45' high (in the middle)
> inverted-vee, with ends a few feet high is supposed to radiate straight up,
> this wasn't too bad.  I must credit ARRL for ordering up decent propagation
> and remarkably low noise over the weekend.  Also I must credit the
> fantastic ops who dug me out of the noise.  And a final note, I'm glad the
> K3 has a digital, not analog, S-meter or WA7NB would be owing me a new one.
>
> Wes  N7WS
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