When my 160 wires were totally out of commission a few years ago, I
discovered the tuner with my 80 meter wires worked OK on 160 and made
some NAQP CW Qs with the 80 meter antenna. Me I enjoy trying new things.
BTW, the CQ 160 contest director always use to work the 160 CW & SSB
contests by loading the boom of a yagi. As Albert use to say "all thing
are relative." So if everyone else's antenna is 10% efficient on 160
then you will be even with the rest of the crowd as long as you hit the
10% mark and if your antenna is 20% efficient you will really have fun!
BTW, I seldom run out of people to work but often the rate drops low
enough I long for something else to try.
73 HNY W0ETC
Larry L
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:56:40 -0800 Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com>
writes:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:50:24 -0500, Shelby Summerville wrote:
>
> >Until "running out of contest time, with people still to work,
> instead of
> >running out of people to work, with contest time still available"
> is
> >accomplished, I suggest that we concentrate on that, instead of
> "expanding"?
>
> I have always run out of contest time with people still to work,
> hasn't everyone? Who has ever worked *every* station active during
> a
> contest? Not me for sure.
>
>
> >I also suspect that the percentage of "efficient" 160 antenna's,
> among all
> >RTTY'ers, is less than 10?
>
> And what better way to encourage folks to improve their 160
> antennas
> than a contest?
>
> --
> Bill, W6WRT
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