TopBand: Stew Perry

[Dick Bodine]

My first SP contest and was very impressed with the operation in
general.  I didn't have the right mindset going in and initially had
some troubles with the exchange but that rapidly went away.   My 160
meter dipole, low apex, 50 or so feet, was a good listening antenna in
the early morning for JA/VK.  (Plans in the works for a EWE or Beverage
if I can encroach on the neighbors wooded property some)  I Could hear
them on the dipole much better than the tower.   Contacts were 251 (wish
it were 252 but H44IO wasn't giving grid square info when I worked him)
28 of which were DX countries.  Equipment here is a TS940S barefoot
<100watts, shunt fed tower, and 160 meter dipole open wire feed.

To N6TR and the crew that organized it, great contest, I'll be back to
operate in it again.

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Dick Bodine                         Amateur Radio Call:  WJ0M
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