I worked you before and during the contest. You were 5NN :-)
Don't ask what you really were, but I have a really modest station, so you were
doing something right. TS-890, KPA500 and an inverted-L, 55 ft vertical, the
rest horizontal (only 18 on ground radials). I receive on the TX antenna and
still hear better than I get out. I just did a low-key S&P operation. 107 Qs,
six JA, one UA0, one BY, two XE, two HI, one ZF and you.
I spent most of my time playing Band/Slot Bingo with TO6S. If the stats don't
change, I was No. 1 in Zone 3 and No. 3 in the world from my S. AZ sandbox.
Wes N7WS
On 1/31/2022 1:13 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
After putting down 3600 yard staples to install 55 radials 130 ft for my 100 ft
wire vertical with a 30 ft L I was ready for the 160 test. For RX I used an SAL-30
which performed well at my old QTH in KH6.
The only other V3 station was V31MA who has an excellent location close to the water with
a great take off to W/K and EU, but ran LP, so it was hard to compare on the RBN.
I'm curious how the antenna performed as i finished the radials right before the contest
and really didn't have a chance to check it out on the air. I had quite a few EU
and many JAs that were there but I couldn't copy them as they were in the mud.
Any comments on the signal/condx would be appreciated.
73 Bill K4XS/V31XX
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