[SECC] K4OGG 160

[Jay Pryor]

I spent most of my effort this weekend sloshing through the ice and briars 
in the woods next to my house putting up a phased beverage for 40M.  I'm 
not quite finished so I don't know if the thing will be an improvement over 
listening on the dipole.  I was in an area of woods so thick with briars 
that I know that no one has set foot there in goodness-knows-how-long, when 
I met a neighbor for the first time.  He started the conversation (he was 
on his deck, I was far down below in the briars and soaking wet from the 
melting ice) with the greeting, "Hey, do you know you're on my 
property?"  Oh well.

I use elevated radials with my inverted L on 160 -- except I didn't bother 
to elevate the radials.  Four of them were still on the ground under the ice.

Low power.


    BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   Countries
  ______________________________________________________________

   160CW       61          61        136      24         1
  ______________________________________________________________

  Totals       61          61        136      24         1


     Final Score = 3400 points.

73,

- Jay, K4OGG