[SECC] ARRL 160 - N4GG

[Sherman Banks]

I heard you OK!   The first time I ran this contest I used my G5RV.  I did
OK.  Then I bought one of the 40/80/160 sloping antenna fed off of a tower
from Alpha/Delta.  That antenna was a true dummy load.  Great SWR on 160,
but I only made about 10 contacts on it, and it wasn't from a lack of
trying.  No one heard me outside of the metro Atlanta area.  I saw K4OGG's
160 Inverted-L setup and decided to give it a try at my house for this
contest.  Not bad.  TNX Jay.

-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com]On
Behalf Of Hal Kennedy
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 9:35 AM
To: SECC
Subject: [SECC] ARRL 160 - N4GG



                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: N4GG
Operator(s): N4GG
Station: N4GG

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 343  Sections = 54  Countries = 5  Total Score = 41,536

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Tough going with a dummy load for an antenna: 88 foot dipole and 40 meter
inverted vee at 30 feet fed in parallel, SWR: 6:1 - most of the power was
going
into heating the baluns no doubt.  But, the question is: To contest or not
to
contest -

Thanks to all for digging me out of the noise.

FT1KMP/Alpha-99/dummy load/Writelog



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