Aloha to All,
Had a good time for a couple of hours last evening in the
test, but then the gales hit!
So down came my "tower", ujsing the lowering motor
got it beolw the palm tree tops. Unfortunately, near
the tower top is the tie point for the center of my
160 inverted-vee dipole. So when the winds went over
40 mph or so, that was the end for me in the test.
Was very pleased to hear hundreds of signals on 160,
and all the way down to the bottom of the band. I
stayed below 1825 pretty much, as that was below
the keying transients that accompany KH6CC's
powerful signal from the Big Island about 350 miles
Southeast of my QTH on Kauai; wonder how much
juice Jack gets from those big bottles he runs!
I made contacts with most of the Western states to
about as far as South Dakota in the midwest.
Anyway was fun, but brief. Be interesting tonight,
IF the winds die away as they are forcast to do. Was
a rather noisy night with the wind blowing so hard.
73 from the Garden Island of Kauai, Jim, KH7M
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