[SCCC] CQ160 SSB WA7BNM Single Op LP

[Dennis Vernacchia]

Bruce

You had good signal in Fall took at NX6T when I worked you !!!

73, Dennis N6KI

On Feb 25, 2018 10:14 PM, "Bruce Horn" <bhorn at hornucopia.com> wrote:

>                     CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB
>
> Call: WA7BNM
> Operator(s): WA7BNM
> Station: WA7BNM
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: S.Calif
> Operating Time (hrs): 1.5
>
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 23  State/Prov = 10  Countries = 1  Total Score = 539
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> This was more of an antenna test than a contest for me. Strung two
> full-size
> radials around the eves of my house and garage (sort of a handlebar
> mustache
> pattern) about 10 ft above the ground. Suspended an inverted-L (well a
> droopy
> inv-L) from my tower with the apex at about 70 ft and the "horizontal"
> portion sloping downward at 45 degrees. Resonant at 1.9 MHz, but with a
> >4:1
> SWR at best - no matching network.
>
> Most QSOs were the result of very good ears and persistence on the part of
> the
> ops.
>
> Rig: K3, 100 watts
>
> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)
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