[SECC] CQ160 CW WF4W Single Op HP

[RJ Hubbard]

thanks, Bill. I finished a build of a 160m inverted L yesterday. I only put
down 3x 135' radials so I definitely need to add more. The antenna works -
but I wasnt on the air last night to see how it did. I had it monitoring
FT8 and it didnt receive any DX - but I also didnt see anyone else working
DX so perhaps conditions were poor...

I'll keep fiddling with it - definitely add more radials as tht made a
world of difference on my 6BTV vertical. Just need to get creative on their
placement - 135' is loooong  :)




On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:11 AM Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:

> Inverted L’s work great on 160m, provided you put down enough radials.
>
> I had a trapped 160, 80 and 40m inverted L up in Floyd county with 24
> radials. Worked very well up there. I’ve put up that antenna in Walton and
> Fulton counties. In Walton, I used a top fence rail as a radial, in Fulton,
> I have two elevated radials. It doesn’t work nearly as well as it did in
> Floyd county.
>
> > On Feb 1, 2021, at 7:40 AM, RJ Hubbard <rj.wf4w at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: <webform at b4h.net>
> > Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 7:34 AM
> > Subject: CQ160 CW WF4W Single Op HP
> > To: <3830 at contesting.com>, <rj.wf4w at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> >                     CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2021
> >
> > Call: WF4W
> > Operator(s): WF4W
> > Station: WF4W
> >
> > Class: Single Op HP
> > QTH:
> > Operating Time (hrs): 6
> >
> > Summary:
> > Total:  QSOs = 427  State/Prov = 52  Countries = 4  Total Score = 52,696
> >
> > Club: South East Contest Club
> >
> > Comments:
> >
> > My 160m game is WEAK! My 80/160m OCF is prettyt much an NVIS antenna -
> it's
> > worthless. So I stuck a 19' lenght of wire into the 80m resonator of my
> 6btv and
> > turned it into an invered L :) -- works pretty well domestically - DX
> isnt
> > happening on this thing though.
> >
> > Still a lot of fun - what CW contest ISNT fun? I was able to get some
> pretty
> > decent runs and rates and I'm beginning to like S&P more and more as I
> find
> > the balance between runs and S&P.
> >
> >
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> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at arrl.net
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