[SEDXC] Dx with 100 watts

[Clark Macaulay]

Got him on 17m SSB with 100w to my droopy G5RV.  Have spent several hours
trying for a CW contact on any band and really believed I had them on 30m
but NIL.  The European wall on 40m and 20m I have not been able to
penetrate. I'm just appreciative that I'm in the log for one contact!

73 de Clark ke4rq 

-----Original Message-----
From: sedxc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:sedxc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of David Thompson
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:23 PM
To: sedxc at contesting.com
Subject: [SEDXC] Dx with 100 watts

I worked my first 312 DXCC entities on 17 and over 260 on 12 with 100 watts.
I use a W9PNE X beam on 12 and load the Cushcraft 40 meter beam on 17.
I found 6 or 7 years ago that this was not making it
so I tuned my Henry 2K for 17 and 12.  I get almost 799 watts.

With my Yaesu's down I find that the little Icom 740 and the TS-130 (thanks
to W4JO) just dont make it thru altho I did work the VU7 on 20 with 100
watts.
Plus I had a lot of fun uisng both transceivers in the ARRL DX SSB so just
wish I had worked a few more hours to get EU, AF, and more Caribbean
stations.

I had to put on the Henry to get 9X0R on 15 and I ran the 8877 to work them
on 80 and 40.  Today I called 9Q1TB on 28490 with 100 watts but got Phil
with one call using an amp.

So be eh!

73 Dave K4JRB


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