All last week, I kept telling myself that I had to get home early one
day and lengthen out my dipole so that I could work in the 160 meter
contest. Well, it never happened.
Friday night, I came in here and decided to see if I could load up the
80 meter dipole with one of my tuners and at least hand out a few points
to stations here in the southeast. I was amazed to find that the little
tuner in the Kenwood loaded it up with no problem at all.
I had learned from a previous and less than successful attempt at using
the 80 meter dipole on 160 that I needed to reduce the power or the
stray RF would set off the security system here in the house. So I
cranked the power down to 70 watts and started working stations.
Here's my results:
CallSign Used : AE4Y
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Band QSOs Pts Sec
1.8 200 400 46
Total 200 400 46
Score : 18,400
I didn't manage to work any DX, although I did hear one GW3, but I did
work the left coast (Oregon), and I only set off the alarm system once.
I guess I'll try to add some more wire for the upcoming CQ 160 contest
so that I can make sure that most of the RF goes out the antenna and not
back into my security system.
Kent, AE4Y
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