[SECC] CQ160 CW WF4W Single Op HP

Sun Feb 7 16:11:27 EST 2021

ground mounted. I added 3 more 65' radial so we'll see how it works
tonight. I'll get another 500' tomorrow for another 8 radials. . .

I dont do too bad domestically -  in the  ARRL 160m CW contest I  made 430
Qs' with 7 good runs with an average rate of 110 q/hr so maybe I should
just be happy :)

Beverages are out of the picture - my lot a decent size but too many things
in the way of making a nice beverage - maybe I'll try the loop sometime. .
. Oh well, at least Im getting to experiment a bit with antennas

On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 3:13 PM Bill Coleman <aa4lr at arrl.net> wrote:

> Are those three ground-mounted, or elevated radials?
>
> Three elevated radials might be enough, if they are 6-10 feet off the
> ground, and tuned properly.
>
> Radials on, or buried slightly under the ground requires a lot more wire.
> Length isn’t critical. The theory is, for a given amount of wire, you are
> better off with many short radials than a few long ones. This is because
> most of the RF currents are close to the radiating element.
>
> When I put up the Inverted-L in Floyd county, I started with 500’ of THHN
> wire, cut into four equal 125’ lengths. This worked OK. Later I bought
> another 500’ of wire, and then had eight 125’ radials. This was better.
>
> Then I bought 1000’ feet of wire, and cut it into 16 equal lengths (62.5’)
> This brought the total up to 24 radials, just laid on the leaf litter in
> the woods. This was tremendously better than just the eight radials alone.
>
> This matches my experience in Gwinnett county, laying down radials for the
> shunt-fed tower. The tower is on the corner of the house, so I can only lay
> down radials over 270 degrees of arc. Four or eight radials weren’t enough,
> but when I got to about 20-25 radials, it was much more effective. I think
> I currently have 29, but some of them were cut by the cable company when
> they re-buried their coax. (I repaired several of those) These radials are
> just laid on the ground, and the grass has grown over them.
>
> These radials vary in length. Basically I put in 60-65 foot lengths, or as
> much as would fit in my yard. I think I have four or six which are around
> 100-120 feet.
>
>
>
> > On Feb 7, 2021, at 11:27 AM, RJ Hubbard <rj.wf4w at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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