Topband: Not so ood in the contest last night

[Herb Schoenbohm]

Don't feel bad Don as last night I only worked three stateside stations 
K3ZM, W8PR  WD5R.  I must have spent two hours calling W8PR at night but 
heard me until at my sunrise. I run an Alpha 87A and a quarter wave 
vertical but all the other stateside stations called just ran their CQ 
machines and apparently I could not even work Florida station in here 10 
over 9 and only 1200 miles away.  Even Jeff VY2ZM who has super ears 
could not even hear a single character of my call.  So as the song goes  
"you gotta know when to hold and when to fold." So I decided to thrown 
the main breaker to the ham shack and save some money on electricity.

Herb, KV4FZ





On 2/22/2014 9:41 AM, goldtr8 at charter.net wrote:
>
> I only made 35 contacts last night from my QTH.    I did however get 5 
> new states and if those contacts use LOTW I will only need 5 more 
> contacts for my WAS on 160m phone.
>
> My antennas are an inverted L and big loop so I dont hear real well. 
> But thats my realilty.
>
> The worst part was I did not hear the South Lyon Group who was running 
> W1AW/8 and they are only 10 ish miles away from me. Maybe tonight :-)
>
> I am following the converstations on the receive loops and hopefully 
> will have time and money to invest in one for a summer project and 
> also figure out how to get my inverted L higher before my flat section.
>
> Have fun everyone I know I do.
>
> ~73
> Don
> KD8NNU
> FH#4107
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