VE7NTT
IARU 1997
CW Only, High Power
Band QSOs Zones HQ
160 22 6 2
80 101 17 5
40 490 30 14
20 800 40 16
15 150 16 4
10 5 3 1
Total 1568 112 42 911,372
I decided to do this one from home--lots of fun. Conditions were
surprising quite good from VE7.
The set-up consists of a single tower with a 5 el Force-12 15M at
86 feet, 80M Force-12 rotary dipole at 79 feet, 4/4 Force-12 20 meter yagis at
73 and 39
feet, 2 el Force-12 40 meter beam at 73 feet, 5 el W7XR-designed 10 meter beam
at 22
feet, and a poorly working 160M inverted vee with the apex at 73 feet and the
ends at
about ground level. We're on a city lot location in the flat terrain of
greater
Vancouver, British Columbia, with a rather large mountain blocking us to the
north.
I used a pair of TS-830s, each with an amp. It's very difficult to use
the second
radio to search for mults when most of the antennas are on the same mast! This
is much
different from VE7SZ, where I do a lot of guest operating. The antennas are
spread out
and rotate independently, making two-radio operation much easier.
Also had a lot of interstation interference, so I suppose I need to get to
work to
solve some of the problems.
Some notes of interest:
1) I didn't hear a single station calling CQ Contest on 10 meters the
entire
weekend. Every station I worked was passed from another band.
2) Caught a nice 15-minute long opening to EU on 15 at 1630Z. The seven
EU
stations are the first I've worked on this band from VE7 since 1993!
3) Worked only a handful of JAs on 80 and 15, but lots on 40 and 20.
4) The EU opening on 40 was interesting--logged 13 in a 20-minute period
starting
at 0325Z, about an hour before local sunset, all S&P. By my sunset, they were
long
gone.
It was nice to work those of you I met at WRTC 96!
73,
Gary Caldwell VE7NTT
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