ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: WU3U
Operator(s): WU3U
Station: WU3U
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: EPA
Operating Time (hrs): 22
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 129
40: 195
20: 107
15: 77
10: 25
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Total: 533 Sections = 78 Total Score = 83,148
Club: Mifflin County ARC
Comments:
Hello All DE WU3U (Tim in Philadelphia, PA),
This was my first serious attempt at SS CW in years after finally buying my own
home recently.
However, I live in a city row home and don't have space for monster antennas
and unless I become very friendly with my neighbors whose houses my dream
tribander's elements would hang - I cannot put up a beam!
All the antennas used for this effort were wire dipoles...and the 40 meter
dipole is bent into an upside down U shape to fit the space. I resonate it on
80 meters with loading coils at either end and it's about 40 feet off the
ground.
I used the 40 meter antenna on 15 meters and from the same feed point, I feed
20 and 10 meter dipoles.
And it was rough going in there with basic antennas like these!
But I had a blast, operated a little over 22 hours...was exhausted at the end
but satisfied that I did the best I could with my "pipsqueak"
hardware.
Hope all had as much fun as I did!
73 all,
Tim
WU3U
"Amateur Radio in the Heart of South Philly"
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