[TenTec] Re: Sweepstakes and my Omni

[Robert]

I have a neighbor that has a GAP and was running an OMNI VI until finances 
forced him into a less expensive radio. I run a HyGain TH6-DX at about 70' 
on a tower HE built a few years ago... I bought the farm from him a while 
back, he moved himself down the road a ways...

  He does a sched to South America every other weekend, and when I first 
got the VI+ he asked if he could use the rig to get to his sched buddy.. 
The rig was putting out an impressive 106 watts on 15m and the comment from 
the South American side was 'WHAT have you done?? You have not sounded this 
good in months!' Well, when the neighbor confessed that he was running the 
6+ on the tower, the other guy asked if I would let him do it every sched.. 
We both laughed, and I could see TT envy creeping back into my neighbor... 
The NEW gap is up down at his place, and I expect to see some kind of TT 
hanging around when he gets the $$$... And just to be the good neighbor, I 
invited him back to play with a 'real radio' anytime...

At 08:09 AM 11/23/99 , Ken & Linda Burrough wrote:

>Hi All
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>Jim W8IT wrote:
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>Worked the Sweepstakes phone contest this weekend and I may have to get
>rid of the Omni. There were many stations whom I could hear very clearly
>and they just couldn't hear my 100 watts.
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>I also worked the Sweepstakes test last weekend with my Omni VI Plus and
>Centaur Amplifier at 600 watts, 40 meters only.   The antenna was my GAP
>Titan Vertical.  Worked everyone I heard--maybe more then 100 watts are
>needed when testing.
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>Jim if you want to get rid of your Omni let me know, I need a back up rig.
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>KEN--W8KEB--USAF Ret.
>Ex-KA2HJY-N6EVC-KC0WN-NE0C
>Flushing, Ohio
>w8keb@1st.net
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