Don't feel bad Don as last night I only worked three stateside stations
K3ZM, W8PR WD5R. I must have spent two hours calling W8PR at night but
heard me until at my sunrise. I run an Alpha 87A and a quarter wave
vertical but all the other stateside stations called just ran their CQ
machines and apparently I could not even work Florida station in here 10
over 9 and only 1200 miles away. Even Jeff VY2ZM who has super ears
could not even hear a single character of my call. So as the song goes
"you gotta know when to hold and when to fold." So I decided to thrown
the main breaker to the ham shack and save some money on electricity.
Herb, KV4FZ
On 2/22/2014 9:41 AM, goldtr8@charter.net wrote:
I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH. I did however get 5
new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more
contacts for my WAS on 160m phone.
My antennas are an inverted L and big loop so I dont hear real well.
But thats my realilty.
The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running
W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-)
I am following the converstations on the receive loops and hopefully
will have time and money to invest in one for a summer project and
also figure out how to get my inverted L higher before my flat section.
Have fun everyone I know I do.
~73
Don
KD8NNU
FH#4107
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