North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: W1TJL
Operator(s): W1TJL
Station: W1TJL
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: FN32ra
Operating Time (hrs): 9.25
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 166 41
40: 242 40
20: 202 50
15: 9 7
10: 2 2
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Total: 621 140 Total Score = 86,940
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Trouble!
What was going to be a fun and relaxing contest became a lot less fun and a lot
less relaxing. About 11:30 AM I began to raise the towers and put up the 160,
etc. Then as I went in to test each of them I found that:
• SteppIR 2 was infinite SWR
• The 40M beam center frequency had shifted much higher to the top of the
band instead of it’s normal 7.080 center
• The 80M vertical was sagging (it is suspended in a huge pine
tree-something slipped)
• The 160M vertical had infinite SWR
I scrambled around and figured I could live for now with the 40M beam. I
tightened the 80M vertical but it’s SWR curve was also near the top of the
band. WTF!
We had 2 major wind storms and ¾ inch of radial ice in the last 2 weeks.
Murphy. Something got damaged, changed, etc…
All that said conditions were quite good! Good runs on 20 (on the SteppIR 1
antenna), 40M even with the 100W and high SWR curve and 80! 80 was booming
early and I even work VK6APG on 100 Watts. He said real signal was 59. Lots of
Europe on 80 although I wasn’t looking for them. But they called, I worked.
So now the troubleshooting begins.
Still had a good time, ate well (Susan mad homemade raviolis and homemade
sauce!) and I worked about 9 hours…
73, Tom W1TJL
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