I can't speak for KQ2M, but if you ever see all the wire yagi's etc that Phil
KT3Y has in the air,
and his well equipped station, you understand why Phil not only feels loud, but
is. The only drawback
is the folks with aluminum tubing can turn it any direction, but Phil does
cover the critical directions.
I was talking with him at one of the local hamfests last month, and he's now
looking at putting up
fixed yagi stacks. A few years ago, every time I saw Phil at a hamfest, he was
carting another
Johnson KW matchbox around. Since then every time I see him at a hamfest he's
carting at least
several hundred feet of ladder-line around. He has mailboxes in various
positions in the yard that
house tuners (not the Johnsons!). There's a tragic story about one catching
fire and damaging
his kitchen.
Now regarding Jim's comments, we can sometimes fool ourselves when testing new
antennas. I
have an open wire fed 80 meter dipole at about 50 feet in the trees. Shortly
after putting it up, I
got involved in some contest when condx were exceptional on 80. I could call cq
with low power
and run (okay walk) Eur. I really felt loud! I put up something vertically
polarized a while later.
When the next contest rolled around, I got on 80 and felt that this antenna was
terrible. So I
connected the super dipole and voila it wasn't any better. In that case I had a
reference to go
back to. I remember reading comments from K8CC concerning testing of new
antennas. As I
recall his recommendation was to test it over a period of time, and not to get
discouraged with
first impressions.
I'm really not sure how well my KT34XA is working on 15 meters, but during the
IARU I was running
Eur well, and that made me feel loud. There were very few stations heard that I
couldn't work
within a call or two. There are a lot of head games in all sports including
radio!
73 de Larry K7SV
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C [SMTP:jjreisert@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 9:26 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: contesting with "small" antennas
At 10:05 AM 7/14/98 -0400, Bill Fisher - W4AN wrote:
>I was having a discussion with W1RR last night, and we both agreed that
>FEELING loud is probably more important than actually being loud.
>I'm sure both KQ2M and KT3Y operate the contest like they were operating
>from a super station.
I think Bill hit the nail on the head. When I'm running with my 30' (10M)
high G5RV, and I have stations like JY9QJ call in not only on 40 but on 75
also, I FEEL LOUD. When I can have a dozen hours in a contest over
60/hour, that energizes you. When you can beat the occasional big gun in a
pileup...
If you feel like a winner, you will be one.
73 - Jim AD1C
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