I heard you OK! The first time I ran this contest I used my G5RV. I did
OK. Then I bought one of the 40/80/160 sloping antenna fed off of a tower
from Alpha/Delta. That antenna was a true dummy load. Great SWR on 160,
but I only made about 10 contacts on it, and it wasn't from a lack of
trying. No one heard me outside of the metro Atlanta area. I saw K4OGG's
160 Inverted-L setup and decided to give it a try at my house for this
contest. Not bad. TNX Jay.
-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Hal Kennedy
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 9:35 AM
To: SECC
Subject: [SECC] ARRL 160 - N4GG
ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: N4GG
Operator(s): N4GG
Station: N4GG
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 343 Sections = 54 Countries = 5 Total Score = 41,536
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Tough going with a dummy load for an antenna: 88 foot dipole and 40 meter
inverted vee at 30 feet fed in parallel, SWR: 6:1 - most of the power was
going
into heating the baluns no doubt. But, the question is: To contest or not
to
contest -
Thanks to all for digging me out of the noise.
FT1KMP/Alpha-99/dummy load/Writelog
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