Hi Dave, et al.
I operate very little on 160, but always try to dabble a bit in the contest.
My antenna for the last contest was a Sloper that covers 30, 40, 80, & 160
... with the feed point at about 26-28 feet high attached to the cranked down
tower. I laid out two insulated radials ( 50 & 65 feet) beneath the Sloper
with the wire running East off the tower from near San Diego. I ran barefoot
Friday night & was just "going nowhere fast" as far as Q's were concerned.
Saturday night, I ran about 1 KW & obviously did much better ... getting 4 new
countries, 30 states, and a total of about 75-80 total contacts. I never heard
any EU stations & only CE1/K7CA from SA on two occasions. New ones were PJ2,
C6, VE, & KL7. I pretty much concentrated on 160 WAS ... thus focused on the
most difficult area for me; the Northeast US. No AF stations were heard
either.
Did I have fun? You betcha!
73
Les, NN6K
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