> I used a delta loop on 80 versus verticals in the past.
Its been a while since I played SS but, for me, the best 80m stateside
antenna is a simple Inv V above 60. Or crossed dipoles.
For 40m, a simple 50 foot high dipole aimed at Cleveland, Ohio..This along
with a 2L 40 aimed west works well.
For the most part, you want to keep with horizontal versus vertical
polarization.
73,
Larry K4AB
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Breed <gary@noblepub.com>
To: secc@contesting.com <secc@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, November 06, 2000 17:56
Subject: [SECC] SSCW comments
>I'm leaving tomorrow for the rest of the week (after voting),
>and didn't want to wait to throw in my two pence about SSCW.
>Don't have my log, so I'll rely on my rapidly fading memory...
>
>1. Conditions were really good, and a few guys remarked that my
>QRP signal was really strong -- but I had lousy results from
>CQing. My theory is that everything is relative. Casual ops can't
>hear weak signals (a fact proven annually at Field Day), and S9+10
>must be "weak" compared to a pinned S-meter.
>
>2. One and only one good run: Sunday evening on 14003. Wierd to
>have your best hour late in the 'test.
>
>3. Activity was good! I worked at least two of EVERY multiplier
>except NL and YT. Yes, Jay, I worked both a VE1 and a VE9 in MAR.
>
>4. 40 was a pain! Even the big guns were way up in the band --
>all the way to 7090! Kept getting shoved out after only a few CQs.
>
>5. I used a delta loop on 80 versus verticals in the past. I did
>"feel" louder on this band, especially into the Northeast, but the
>band was quiet and it might have been conditions. Also had a low
>40-20-15 dipole at 35 ft., broadside NW/SE. On 40, it was rarely
>better than the rotatable dipole at 75 ft., but good on 15 & 20.
>
>6. Two radios is nice to have, but will take practice. I have been
>woefully short of contest practice lately.
>
>7. Good News/Bad News -- I think I got about all I could from a
>tribander/single element station.
>
>73, Gary
>K9AY
>
>
>
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