[SECC] improving 160 results

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

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On 2/2/2011 3:23 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
> I think I have lost my edge over the east coast. Part of this is my fault 
> for sharing things that helped my receiving.  :-)
> 
>  It used to be the east coast always won. When Bill Fisher and John first 
> came here there was a big battle between K1ZM and W2GD. We got right in the 
> middle of it and came in a close second out of nowhere. That totally shocked 
> the New England stations who thought the world revolves around the NE USA 
> and 160 DX. Prior to that no one ever thought a SE station that was inland 
> could ever win.

For some reason I am reminded of an article in 73 way back when,
concerning a certain 4-lander running what essentially was a rotatable
vertical beam on 80.  He loaded up his tower and hung wires sized to be
a director and reflector off of the end of his 20-meter beam, pulled up
to the tower top to get them off the ground, and hung bricks on the
bottom to keep said director and reflector in place.  You had to rotate
it slowly, lest the brick's momentum wrap the wires around the tower.
But IT (as the antenna was referred to) was apparently effective enough
to have a similar shocking effect on the 1's and 2's who thought they
owned the path to Europe.  I'm not sure if something similar could be
set up for 160 or not.

Ben
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