ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: W1TJL
Operator(s): W1TJL
Station: W1TJL
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: FN32na
Operating Time (hrs): 5 Hrs
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 277 Sections = 75 Countries = 6 Total Score = 44,025
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I had plans to do a nearly full effort for this one but as usual life gets in
the way! First Murphy. On Friday I went out to raise the tower to it's 90 ft
height and found that the winch controls had all been fused! When we had all
that rain last week after CQWW we had some lightning and I think that the winch
was hit. Anyway, I found a blown Full Wave rectifier and the 2 switches were
frozen / fused. I took the controller apart and it was a MESS - all carbon
black and destroyed.
So on Saturday AM I took the winch apart and replaced the full wave bridge and
used the wire nut method of making the contacts and raised the tower. Now the
160 was up. Then I got a phone call reminding me that the local volunteer fire
department dinner which I volunteer at was that night and "Gee, we forgot
to tell you. Can you make it??" LOL Well it is a good cause so I went
and helped them for a few hours and then came home to operate.
Doing pretty well, the new 160M "C" antenna was really playing. The
new beverage was amazingly quiet and I could hear very well. Till about 3:30
AM. Suddenly the beverage lost MOST of it's signals. had to go back to the
transmit antenna. Gave up about 4:00AM.
This morning I went out to look and found a large, wet branch had fallen on the
wires and shorted them out. I didn't break them but was effectively shorting
out the antenna. Grabbed the saw and removed it and the beverage was again
working.
None the less, I'm pretty happy with the C antenna and the beverage. And I'm
happy that I was able to spend 5 or so hours in the chair. And as always it
was FUN!
73, W1TJL
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