Topband: How to win an ARRL 160m contest for WTX

[Julius Fazekas]

new mobile category in ARRL160?

;o)

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en

Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875


--- On Wed, 10/28/09, Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> From: Mike & Coreen Smith <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> Subject: Re: Topband: How to win an ARRL 160m contest for WTX
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:45 PM
> Sam,
> 
> My (top) HAT is off to you !
> 
> It never ceases to amaze me what folks are doing on TOPBAND
> and it inspires 
> me to continue even though I have a very poor 160m
> installation here.  I may 
> even try 160m mobile once again.......I did it in the mid
> 90's for a cpl yrs 
> with a tossed together and modified system and iirc worked
> 13 or 14 
> countries on 160m /M (100W)...mostly while in motion. 
> FT-101E, Webster 
> Bandspanner and ice cream bucket coil on top with a huge
> capacity hat above 
> that.  Didn't work very well, but it did
> "work"...maybe 1.2% efficiency? HI 
> HI
> 
> Hope to see you on.
> 
> Good going man !
> 
> Mike VE9AA
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
> 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
> NB
> Canada
> E6L 1T1
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Sam Morgan
>   To: topband at contesting.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:42 AM
>   Subject: Topband: How to win an ARRL 160m contest
> for WTX
> 
> 
>   Morning folks,
>   Yesterday I received a pleasant surprise from the
> ARRL in the mail.
>   I opened it up and there was a certificate for
> winning 1st place in the
>   2008 ARRL 160 Meter Contest running QRP in the WTX
> section.
> 
> 
>   The Hi-Q is an excellent antenna. Above the 5/160
> coil my installation has 
> a
>   EB-8 tophat and a 102" whip, so it's all of about
> 13.5 feet tall. For the 
> ground
>   plane there are sixteen radials each 13 feet long,
> with a wire connecting 
> the
>   outer ends of the radials. There is one radial each
> for 160m, 80m, 60m, 
> 40m, and
>   30m thrown in there for grins, all laying on the tar
> and gravel roof at 20 
> feet.
> 
>   , times the Hi-Q's 1.3% efficiency on
>   P.S. My hats off to all those that did all the hard
> work copying my peanut
>   whistle, those guys/gals were the greatest! --
> KA5OAI
>   </quote>
> 
>   -- 
>   GB & 73
>   K5OAI
>   Sam Morgan
> 
> 
>   _______________________________________________
>   160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated
> with respect. - TF4M
> 
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> 160 meters is a serious band, it should be treated with
> respect. - TF4M
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