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Subject: Topband: Stew Perry Warm Up
From: Cormac Gebruers <ei4hq.mail@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:10:19 +0100
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Hi All,

Thanks to all stations worked/heard during the Stew Perry warm up this
weekend.

It was the first outing for my new 18m base loaded vertical for 80m/160m and
the first time I've been back on 160m since I tore down my inverted L early
last year with a view to putting up a more weather-robust replacement. It
took a while longer than I'd planned ;-)

I operated mostly to determine whether the antenna was a player or a porker.
I'm delighted with how it performed. I run 100w from a Yaesu FT2000 with a
K9AY for receive and logged 60 pretty much "hear em - work em" QSOs. The
most distant was circa 4,500km east (UA9BA I think it was...). The antenna
does have a good enough ground radial system; the radials are a mish-mash of
36 purpose laid wires (0.15 wavelength on TB), the remanents of the radial
system for the old inverted L (a further 12 0.25 wires on TB) and that lot
is also connected to my 64 radials for my 40m vertical (0.25 wavelength on
40m). I'll post pics and full details on the antenna soon.

I put in about 6 hours from 1730utc to 2330utc Sun before I had to bail out
due committments early on Sunday. Stopping at 2330utc I of course missed the
best period to work W into the Americas. I had been listening that way for
about an hour before I finished up and heard the following stations though I
couldn't work them: KV4FZ, K3WW, W8MJ, W2BC. I didn't hear any others and
most EU stations seemed to be struggling to work across the pond at that
stage. Here's hoping it got easier as the night wore on. I struggled to hear
local stations in the IO locator - GM, GW, G throughout, but some DL and F
stations were very strong at times.

For the record, the other got-aways here were as follows:
RX3DBH, RV5K, R6YY, R3KM, DL7VPE/P, UA4AAC, EW1DO, LY2TS, UA4CC, UA6LCN,
US6EX, OH8JJ, DK3GI, HA8BE, RX6LOL, OK1UKV.

Roll on the main event!

-- 
Regards
Cormac
[Cork/UTC+1] NNNN++++
http://ei4hq.cloudaccess.net

EI4HQ LOG
QSO:  1811 CW 2011-10-22 1719 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL7ON         599
JO62
QSO:  1827 CW 2011-10-22 1729 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL5YM         599
JO62
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1730 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UY0ZG         599
KN56
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 1732 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SM6CPY        599
JO67
QSO:  1831 CW 2011-10-22 1734 EI4HQ         599 IO51   RA4LW         599
LO44
QSO:  1818 CW 2011-10-22 1736 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL8QS         599
JO43
QSO:  1822 CW 2011-10-22 1738 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OH2XX         599
KP20
QSO:  1827 CW 2011-10-22 1741 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SE0X          599
JO99
QSO:  1834 CW 2011-10-22 1744 EI4HQ         599 IO51   HA1A          599
JO97
QSO:  1821 CW 2011-10-22 1751 EI4HQ         599 IO51   LY2XW         599
KO25
QSO:  1820 CW 2011-10-22 1752 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UT5ECZ        599
KN68
QSO:  1818 CW 2011-10-22 1753 EI4HQ         599 IO51   RN1A          599
KO48
QSO:  1834 CW 2011-10-22 1755 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UA3MIF        599
KO98
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1757 EI4HQ         599 IO51   LY7M          599
KO25
QSO:  1824 CW 2011-10-22 1800 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UX1UA         599
KO50
QSO:  1818 CW 2011-10-22 1809 EI4HQ         599 IO51   HG7T          599
KN07
QSO:  1811 CW 2011-10-22 1810 EI4HQ         599 IO51   F5IN          599
JN18
QSO:  1822 CW 2011-10-22 1813 EI4HQ         599 IO51   S58Q          599
JN76
QSO:  1836 CW 2011-10-22 1822 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OK2BFN        599
JN89
QSO:  1818 CW 2011-10-22 1826 EI4HQ         599 IO51   PA0O          599
JO33
QSO:  1837 CW 2011-10-22 1835 EI4HQ         599 IO51   RN1NW         599
KP71
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 1838 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SM5QU         599
JO99
QSO:  1822 CW 2011-10-22 1843 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL5AXX        599
JO40
QSO:  1815 CW 2011-10-22 1845 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SQ1K          599
JO84
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 1846 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL6FBL        599
JO31
QSO:  1823 CW 2011-10-22 1848 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SP9ATE        599
JN99
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1852 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DK3GI         599
JN59
QSO:  1828 CW 2011-10-22 1859 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OK1HFP        599
JN69
QSO:  1832 CW 2011-10-22 1907 EI4HQ         599 IO51   F6HHR         599
JO10
QSO:  1831 CW 2011-10-22 1918 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OK5ET         599
JO70
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1931 EI4HQ         599 IO51   G4LWB         599
IO92
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1932 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL5KUD        599
JO64
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1934 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UA9BA         599
MO04
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1943 EI4HQ         599 IO51   GM4UBJ        599
IO75
QSO:  1816 CW 2011-10-22 1949 EI4HQ         599 IO51   E73T          599
JN94
QSO:  1817 CW 2011-10-22 1950 EI4HQ         599 IO51   PA0QX         599
JO33
QSO:  1825 CW 2011-10-22 1955 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL5CL         599
JO51
QSO:  1829 CW 2011-10-22 1957 EI4HQ         599 IO51   S57DX         599
JN75
QSO:  1839 CW 2011-10-22 1959 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UA2FL         599
KO04
QSO:  1821 CW 2011-10-22 2016 EI4HQ         599 IO51   PA5WT         599
JO22
QSO:  1832 CW 2011-10-22 2025 EI4HQ         599 IO51   LY2J          599
KO14
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2036 EI4HQ         599 IO51   G0BQN         599
IO81
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2039 EI4HQ         599 IO51   F5VLY         599
JN04
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2040 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OK1DST        599
JN79
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2045 EI4HQ         599 IO51   F9KP          599
IN87
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2056 EI4HQ         599 IO51   SK3PY         599
JP82
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2101 EI4HQ         599 IO51   HA5UK         599
JN97
QSO:  1830 CW 2011-10-22 2102 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OK1FKD        599
JO60
QSO:  1814 CW 2011-10-22 2116 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UA4FEN        599
LO23
QSO:  1821 CW 2011-10-22 2121 EI4HQ         599 IO51   PA30LOU       599
JO21
QSO:  1826 CW 2011-10-22 2124 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UW5U          599
KN49
QSO:  1831 CW 2011-10-22 2132 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL2DHS        599
JO64
QSO:  1831 CW 2011-10-22 2134 EI4HQ         599 IO51   UA1OAM        599
KP94
QSO:  1831 CW 2011-10-22 2141 EI4HQ         599 IO51   PA3AM         599
JO32
QSO:  1823 CW 2011-10-22 2214 EI4HQ         599 IO51   G4MKP         599
IO92
QSO:  1824 CW 2011-10-22 2215 EI4HQ         599 IO51   OH5DA         599
KP30
QSO:  1828 CW 2011-10-22 2216 EI4HQ         599 IO51   DL5KUT        599
JO31
QSO:  1828 CW 2011-10-22 2220 EI4HQ         599 IO51   F6DDR         599
JN38
QSO:  1825 CW 2011-10-22 2235 EI4HQ         599 IO51   RL3A          599
KO84
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