No, I've NEVER done anything like that. I did use a long piece of
apparently very lossy coax fed by an antenna tuner to work part of a
contest once though. It was laying on the ground with nothing attached. It
worked better than yours. I could get California with it (from SC).
Kevan
N4XL
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Jeff (W4DD) <w4dd09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cort,
>
>
>
> I?m sure no one on this reflector has ever done anything like that. We
> always get it right every time.
>
>
>
> Actually, I have to keep reminding myself to set everything up a couple
> days in advance and test it. Seems like if I wait until the day of the
> contest, something is not working quite right.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
> *From:* SECC [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com] *On Behalf Of *Courtney
> Judd
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 13, 2015 11:34 AM
> *To:* ACG
> *Cc:* SECC
> *Subject:* [SECC] me stupido!
>
>
>
> man, i think that my higher brain functions have gone downhill big time! I
> should have been able to sort this problem out in short order! Didn't see
> the light until this morning! I had everything set up for the ten test this
> weekend and started out Friday but couldn't hear anything.... zero! OK, I
> thought solar storm or something! Saturday heard a few weak signals , I
> could work those all ok... S-meter never came off zero, SWR checked normal,
> rig set up right... checked other bands and they are all covered with big
> signals... so what's the problem with 10? I finally noticed a little RX
> light lit up on the antenna selection button on the 2000D . Here I had been
> listening on the external antenna port which had nothing attached to it...
> no wonder i could not hear anything..... all back to normal except I feel
> incredibly stupid! lol Cort
>
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