[SECC] NAQP CW Jan 2003

[Jeff Clarke]

Hi John...

 Nice job... I will be happy to take the honor of low score for our team. We should
have a prettty good team #1
score. Still waiting to hear how W4AN did ???

                            Jeff

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Jeffrey D. Clarke 770-218-0278 email : ku8e@bellsouth.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John T. Laney, III" <k4bai@worldnet.att.net>
To: "secc" <secc@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:39 PM
Subject: [SECC] NAQP CW Jan 2003


> Hello all:
>
> Not quite a personal best, but managed to reach one goal:  not to be the
> lowest score on my team, hi.
>
> In December, W4AN mentioned to me that N6TR reported that I am unusually
> weak on 40 M.  So, I plan to improve my 40 meter dipole by hanging it in
> an inverted vee fashion from my tower.  Right now, it is straight and
> flat and 15 to 20 feet in the air.  At one time it was resonant about
> 7050, but I have noticed that it isn't that way lately.  Anyway, I
> ordered some new RG8?u from HRO and it came on Friday (shipped from NH,
> hi).  I replaced the old scrap RG58 coax with the new RG8 and was able
> to tune the antenna with the ATU OK.  However, when I finally went to 40
> yesterday during NAQP, the antenna didn't work.  Signals were weaker
> than on the 80 M wire and the ATU wouldn't come close to tuning it.
> Don't know what is wrong and it was too cold today to check it out.
> I'll try to figure it out before next weekend's partime effort.  I got
> it tuned with the use of the MFJ antenna tuner, but it didn't work
> well.  I tried to get as many mults as possible, but didn't try to run
> on 40 since the signal was obviously very weak there.  I should have
> left "well enough" alone until after the contest, but thought I had
> improved thing;s.
>
> I had a terribel power line noise problem in the afternoon that wiped
> out the backscatter signals on 15 and 10.  Seemed to be better later and
> didn't affect the low bands.
>
> Worked only 6 stations on 6 bands, probably because I finished my 10
> hours at 0430Z and the 80/160 meter totals show the result of finishing
> too early.  They were K9PG and K4FXN.
>
> Think I worked all states except VT and HI.  Also missed LB, NWT, NB, NU
> and YT.  Worked at least one station in each other US/VE mult.  Only one
> station on one band from NE.  Nice to hear and work so many SECC
> members.
>
> Thanks for the QSOs.  W4OC 4 bands, K4NO 4 bands, KU8E 3 bands, W4AN 3
> bands, NS4T one band, KA9EKJ 2 bands, K4GA one band, NE4S, 3 bands,
> W4NTI 2 bands, NA4W, one band, and K4IQJ 3 bands.  I probably missed
> someone.  I did hear or hear someone working AE4Y and K2UFT.
>
> Worked AL1G in Alaska on 10M, V31JP on 40 M, and TG9/N0AT on 15 and 10.
> XE2MX on the three top bands.  Don't think I worked any other NA DX
> mults.  Condx for DX didn't seem good and I worked no other DX, but did
> hear a LU calling in for some QSOs on 10.
>
> Here is the result:
>
> Band     QSOs    Mults
> 160    40    23
> 80    148    36
> 40    100    44
> 20    239    52
> 15    150    47
> 10    62     34
>
> ALL    743   236   = 175,348.
>
> 73,
>
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
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