[Mldxcc] Antenna (was Re: CA QSO Party Summary)

[Emily Clarke]

On 10/6/2014 10:12 PM, Robert Hess wrote:
> Great job, Emi!  What are you using for antennas?
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I decided to go with what I know best, and I used my buddipole. What I 
found is that I could tune it for 15M and it was stable across the 
entire band getting "Nice sound" comments across the country and in 
europe.  I could move to 10M and it was stable from about 28.370 to 
28.515 with east coast and AU stations still saying "big signal".  So 
that worked out.

When I got bored I found  I could drop down work 20M from about 14.240 
to 14.340.  But eventually around 6pm I did change the length of the 
buddipole and tune it to 20M.  About 9pm I moved to 40M and made a lot 
more contacts than I thought I would, mostly Nevada and California.

There was a guy in Texas I talked to a few months back who laughed 
saying that putting 75 feet of LMR-600 UF to the base of my buddipole 
was a waste, but I like it :-)  I get about 98W out at the antenna, and 
it really works for me.

Emi - N1DID

PS - I plan on working Sweepstakes too but maybe not from my home QTH - 
I also bought a generator and was thinking I may go to one of the parks 
on one of the islands in the delta where there is less noise and I could 
put up an 80m dipole or a v-beam.  Problem is I wouldn't have internet 
connection there.