new mobile category in ARRL160?
;o)
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875
--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> From: Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
> Subject: Re: Topband: How to win an ARRL 160m contest for WTX
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:45 PM
> Sam,
>
> My (top) HAT is off to you !
>
> It never ceases to amaze me what folks are doing on TOPBAND
> and it inspires
> me to continue even though I have a very poor 160m
> installation here. I may
> even try 160m mobile once again.......I did it in the mid
> 90's for a cpl yrs
> with a tossed together and modified system and iirc worked
> 13 or 14
> countries on 160m /M (100W)...mostly while in motion.
> FT-101E, Webster
> Bandspanner and ice cream bucket coil on top with a huge
> capacity hat above
> that. Didn't work very well, but it did
> "work"...maybe 1.2% efficiency? HI
> HI
>
> Hope to see you on.
>
> Good going man !
>
> Mike VE9AA
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
> 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
> NB
> Canada
> E6L 1T1
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam Morgan
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:42 AM
> Subject: Topband: How to win an ARRL 160m contest
> for WTX
>
>
> Morning folks,
> Yesterday I received a pleasant surprise from the
> ARRL in the mail.
> I opened it up and there was a certificate for
> winning 1st place in the
> 2008 ARRL 160 Meter Contest running QRP in the WTX
> section.
>
>
> The Hi-Q is an excellent antenna. Above the 5/160
> coil my installation has
> a
> EB-8 tophat and a 102" whip, so it's all of about
> 13.5 feet tall. For the
> ground
> plane there are sixteen radials each 13 feet long,
> with a wire connecting
> the
> outer ends of the radials. There is one radial each
> for 160m, 80m, 60m,
> 40m, and
> 30m thrown in there for grins, all laying on the tar
> and gravel roof at 20
> feet.
>
> , times the Hi-Q's 1.3% efficiency on
> P.S. My hats off to all those that did all the hard
> work copying my peanut
> whistle, those guys/gals were the greatest! --
> KA5OAI
> </quote>
>
> --
> GB & 73
> K5OAI
> Sam Morgan
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> 160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated
> with respect. - TF4M
>
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