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Re: [CQ-Contest] Time to QSY?

To: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com>, CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Time to QSY?
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Reply-to: n2ic@arrl.net
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:09:15 -0600
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Hah !

Sit in my shoes, on a dry, rocky mountaintop in SW New Mexico, with poor dielectric and conductivity characteristics. Essentially, no soil - just rocks.

I have tried a number of single-element 160 antennas over the years, with less-than-satisfying results. I evaluate each of them by the percentage of EU stations that CQ in my face on a good Europe night.

A marked difference from my previous Colorado QTH, which had a 1/4 wave sloper over flat, irrigated farm land.

You can get away with some pretty poor transmit antennas on 160 if you have good ground characteristics under them. For poor ground, lots of radials somewhat, but not entirely, mitigates the problem.

73,
Steve, N2IC


On 03/17/2017 04:57 PM, Chuck Dietz wrote:
I use a 1/4 wave sloper on 160 with the top at about 130 feet on a 155 foot
tower. I have a receiving array, but I have never heard any 160m station I
could not contact. East coast stations tell me I have EU pile ups I can't
hear after I have worked all the loud ones. I think transmit antennas are
easy. It is the receive antennas that are a problem.

Chuck W5PR


On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:53 PM Wes Jennings <wjennings2011@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Steve as you know I am setting up here also. 4 sq on 40m - 2multi band
verts for 80 phased. And inverted l for 160. Now on a small city lot my old
elmer had KLM tribander, 2ele 40m beam, shunt fed the tower for 160,80 with
beverages that fit in the lot. Did real well on that setup

Wes
WL7F
________________________________
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Stephen
Bloom <sbloom@acsalaska.net>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:43:28 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Time to QSY?

I'll throw this out there ...

80M and 160M antennas!

Most of us probably know the theory, but I want to know what has actually
worked and hasn't ..and ..why

Competitively, at this point in the cycle, we're gonna live and die on the
low bands.  For the most part, 40M and below, we know it's some variation
on
heavy metal high in the air .. for 80 and 160M, I'm curious, and I bet
others are too about

1)  For the "big guns" and those trying to be, what are you doing?  Are any
of you having success with 80M yagis, and if so, how are you keeping them
in
the air and on the air?  For 80M and 160M, 4 square arrays?  4 "tower
verticals" or Dipole arrays off a single tower?  2 phased verticals?
Receiving antennas?  How do you keep Moose from ravaging your Beverages?
(OK, maybe that is an Alaska only problem!)

2)  For the people on smaller lots.  Suggestions, ways to improve
performance realistically.

Thanks/73
Steve KL7SB



-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
K1AR via CQ-Contest
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 1:08 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Time to QSY?

OK everyone -- unless someone has something new and profound to offer, I
suggest we move on to a new thread. How about a discussion on leveling the
playing field in contesting? Or, perhaps the impact of spotting, RBN and
packet  on contest operating? Maybe we can debate the merits of combining
assisted  and unassisted.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Something new folks? Anything? Please?

Thank you.

73, John, K1AR

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