[3830] ARRL 160 AJ1AJ SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2023

Call: AJ1AJ
Operator(s): AJ1AJ
Station: AJ1AJ

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: NH
Operating Time (hrs): 3:37

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 255  Sections = 42  Countries = 0  Total Score = 21,420

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

That was fun.

The support ropes for the antenna went up Saturday late morning and the antenna
wire early afternoon.  As sunset was closing in I was getting wonky SWR readings
and I ended up rebuilding the feed point left outside from last year - I now
have a handful of M5 hardware covered in various kinds of oxidation, replaced
with new 10-24 bolts, spacers, hex nuts, and wing nuts, and what couldn't be
removed got scrubbed with a wire brush.  With that issue resolved and with the
sun setting, I saw that the antenna was too short and extended it with a Wago
connector.  It's good to know that Wago connectors will hold power, at least at
the far end of an antenna, and I think that it will stay up there as an
experiment.


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