Hi John...
Nice job... I will be happy to take the honor of low score for our team. We
should
have a prettty good team #1
score. Still waiting to hear how W4AN did ???
Jeff
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Jeffrey D. Clarke 770-218-0278 email : ku8e@bellsouth.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John T. Laney, III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
To: "secc" <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: [SECC] NAQP CW Jan 2003
> Hello all:
>
> Not quite a personal best, but managed to reach one goal: not to be the
> lowest score on my team, hi.
>
> In December, W4AN mentioned to me that N6TR reported that I am unusually
> weak on 40 M. So, I plan to improve my 40 meter dipole by hanging it in
> an inverted vee fashion from my tower. Right now, it is straight and
> flat and 15 to 20 feet in the air. At one time it was resonant about
> 7050, but I have noticed that it isn't that way lately. Anyway, I
> ordered some new RG8?u from HRO and it came on Friday (shipped from NH,
> hi). I replaced the old scrap RG58 coax with the new RG8 and was able
> to tune the antenna with the ATU OK. However, when I finally went to 40
> yesterday during NAQP, the antenna didn't work. Signals were weaker
> than on the 80 M wire and the ATU wouldn't come close to tuning it.
> Don't know what is wrong and it was too cold today to check it out.
> I'll try to figure it out before next weekend's partime effort. I got
> it tuned with the use of the MFJ antenna tuner, but it didn't work
> well. I tried to get as many mults as possible, but didn't try to run
> on 40 since the signal was obviously very weak there. I should have
> left "well enough" alone until after the contest, but thought I had
> improved thing;s.
>
> I had a terribel power line noise problem in the afternoon that wiped
> out the backscatter signals on 15 and 10. Seemed to be better later and
> didn't affect the low bands.
>
> Worked only 6 stations on 6 bands, probably because I finished my 10
> hours at 0430Z and the 80/160 meter totals show the result of finishing
> too early. They were K9PG and K4FXN.
>
> Think I worked all states except VT and HI. Also missed LB, NWT, NB, NU
> and YT. Worked at least one station in each other US/VE mult. Only one
> station on one band from NE. Nice to hear and work so many SECC
> members.
>
> Thanks for the QSOs. W4OC 4 bands, K4NO 4 bands, KU8E 3 bands, W4AN 3
> bands, NS4T one band, KA9EKJ 2 bands, K4GA one band, NE4S, 3 bands,
> W4NTI 2 bands, NA4W, one band, and K4IQJ 3 bands. I probably missed
> someone. I did hear or hear someone working AE4Y and K2UFT.
>
> Worked AL1G in Alaska on 10M, V31JP on 40 M, and TG9/N0AT on 15 and 10.
> XE2MX on the three top bands. Don't think I worked any other NA DX
> mults. Condx for DX didn't seem good and I worked no other DX, but did
> hear a LU calling in for some QSOs on 10.
>
> Here is the result:
>
> Band QSOs Mults
> 160 40 23
> 80 148 36
> 40 100 44
> 20 239 52
> 15 150 47
> 10 62 34
>
> ALL 743 236 = 175,348.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
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