Wish I woulda heard ya., Jim - would have been nice to have you in my log.
Ended up with 80 Qs with one KL7 and three KH6s in the mix. Longest stateside Q
was either a fella in PA or a fella in NC (can't remember which). Heard FM5CD
Saturday evening but he wasn't hearing my peanut whistle as all I heard him
replying to was east coast stations.
Condx were the pits here as well - rolling noise, growling noise - made my ears
hurt!
Congrats on getting your "stealth antenna" put up and taken down with no "LEOs"
all over ya!
Hope to work ya someday! 72, Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV
> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:37:32 -0700
> From: j_fitton@yahoo.com
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: Thrashing around in the Stew
>
> Friday afternoon was spent putting 140' of wire in the trees but
> was not able to spend time operating until Saturday evening.
>
> Thought there was no one on the band until accidentally tuning
> up a ways and there they were. Couldn't get beyond 900 miles
> (needing many repeats) and about midnight decided to try an above
> ground radial hoping for a boost, but no luck but did not get
> arrested for crashing around in the woods at midnight either.
>
> Even tried hastilly winding a choke balun around 1 am, but it only hung up
> the keyer with RF feedback which forced me to quit N1MM and lose the
> dupe sheet. Still no luck, but 160m is sure a fun band. Had a few hours
> sleep then shortly after daybreak made a few more then reeled in the
> raised radial before someone in the condo complex walked into it.
>
> Thanks to all who dug my 5 watts out of the noise and
> especially those who tried and tried but couldn't. Maybe I will figure out
> how to get this FCP assembled and up before too long. My #1 goal is to
> work Herb, KV4FZ from this location as he always has a good signal.
>
> Nice to have worked K2AV and W0UCE - my FCP heroes last night !
>
> 73,
>
> Jim / W1FMR
>
>
>
>
> couldn't
> _______________________________________________
> Remember the PreStew coming on October 20th. http://www.kkn.net/stew for
> more info.
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Remember the PreStew coming on October 20th. http://www.kkn.net/stew for more
info.
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