Stew Perry Topband Challenge
Call: AH8DX/W7
Operator(s): AH8DX
Station: AH8DX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OR
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 20 Total Score = 713
Club:
Comments:
LOW POWER 100 WATTS
Station: Icom IC-7000
TX Antenna: 1/4wave sloper hanging from a tree
RX Antenna: None
Tuner: Nye Viking MB-IV-A
# of Ground Radials: 3
Best Distance Worked: JH2FXK, Shige
South Pacific Worked: KH6LC
Heard 549 But Not Worked: VK9DXW
My score doesn't look right but anyway here it is...
After reading Tree's blurb on the Top Band Reflector about the upcoming Stew
Perry Warmup, I decided to get my traveling sloper out of my luggage and hang
it from the tree on my city property on Wednesday night under moon light so
that my neighbors couldn't see it. It is ground fed and slopes to the north. I
didn't know how this was going to work since the last time I used it I was in
the Carribean operating as FS/AH8DX on the beach. I could not get the swr lower
than 3:1 so I needed to use my Nye Viking tuner to get the swr down to 1.5:1.
I was amazed at how well everything played. I was able to hear very well on my
IC-7000 with all of the filters set up just right for my ears. I was not able
to get any RX antenna put together so had to rely on my TX antenna to do it and
it did well.
I tryed to work tons of US guys back east but to no avail. The 100 watts just
wasn't enough I guess. Sunday morning rolled around and at around 7 a.m. my
local time, I tuned across Shige, JH2FXK with a true 599 signal. I got him on
the first call but he didn't have the portable but after the next transmission,
he was able to copy fb. Thanks for hearing my 100w sig Shige, you made my day.
At the same time VK9DWX was coming in 559 working split and listening 3 down. I
tried forever to work him but it just didn't happen. I will have to get my amp
set up for the next Stew Perry.
That was a fun night. (When there's a will there's a way). Thanks Tree for
putting something up on the Top band Reflector; that's what it took to have me
put up something and get on.
Gud Dx,
Craig, AH8DX/W7 & 8R1EA
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