[3830] ARRL 160 VE1RGB Single Op LP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: VE1RGB
Operator(s): VE1RGB
Station: VE1RGB

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Halifax, NS
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 212  Sections = 50  Countries = 10  Total Score = 22,850

Club: Maritime Contest Club

Comments:

This was a test of a 90-foot tower, mounted isolated from ground on a large
hemlock stump manufactured by Hurricane Juan, and directly loaded as a
quarter-wave vertical against a 3,000 foot radial field.  This tower had
originally been custom-manufactured for John Bartlett HK3OZ in Bogata, Columbia
and came into the possession of me, Gary Bartlett (no relation), via a
complicated route.  This summer I removed the steel guy cables which had been
holding it up and replaced them with Phillystran, thus liberating the tower as
a useable radiator. It also suspends my two big wire antennas. I am quite fond
of this tower. 

The result?  I could quite handily have improved on my previous best from 2004
(25K) if I had had the time this year.  My favourite Q was picking Frank VO1HP
on the second try in a horrendus pile-up, but the DX was gratifying too.  I'm
very pleased!  

Credits to VE1ZAC for making me realize that the tower was an unused asset,
identified through his EZNEC analysis, and for the subsequent measurements done
in the field with an AIM 4170 that proved his case.  And of course to John,
a.k.a. VE1OZ, for selling me the tower :)

K3 + P3 + vertical

Gary, VE1RGB


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