Topband: Spring Stew Perry

Sun Mar 13 12:10:33 EDT 2016

The 30' vertical legs are absolutely vertical, Jim....horizontal leg is 51' long and I placed a 30 microhenry "end loading coil" at the far end...tunes up well via the LDG Z11 ProII auto tuner located at the base of the near vertical end.

I used the MMANA antenna design s/w to "put it together on paper" -- erected it yesterday afternoon.....was nervous about taking down my inverted "El" but sure glad I did -- MMANA said the inverted El had 1.6 dbi of gain, the Inverted U - sumpin' in excess of 3.5 with a lower takeoff angle....

71.5/72 de Jim R. K9JWV

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From: Jim F. <j_fitton at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 9:31 AM
To: James Rodenkirch; topband at contesting.com; no3m at no3m.net
Subject: Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry

K9JWV... Good luck with that Inv U !   It worked great at my last location but not here.
Totally different terrain and the vertical feed leg here is at an angle instead of being
perfectly vertical.

Eric, NO3M  Wonderful workmanship in that 1928 MOPA transmitter !  Congratulations !

When this old PC was turned on this morning an error came up and the date and all times
in the log were changed to year 2004 !!!  Gulp !

I know what this year is.... but,
in order to correct all the log times at least one QSO time reference will be needed.

So if someone would send me the time of a QSO it would be greatly appreciated.
  I didn't work many but would like to make sure those who agonized through a
    QRP QSO with me get the well deserved credit.

Thank you and 73,

Jim / W1FMR  NH

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From: James Rodenkirch <Rodenkirch_LLC at msn.com>
To: "topband at contesting.com" <topband at contesting.com>; "no3m at no3m.net" <no3m at no3m.net>; Jim F. <j_fitton at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry

Hearing very few CA ops this A.M. so don't expect to hear few JAs.....oh well, my new antenna - an inverted U - did well for me (worked far more east coast/new England stns this time around)  ...just put it up yesterday....80 Qs and 915 pts....

LOVE Stew Perry events...72 to all de Jim R. K9JWV

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From: Jim F. <j_fitton at yahoo.com<mailto:j_fitton at yahoo.com>>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 10:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry

Eric...Mopa sounded great in NH !  Did not hear Jim....

KV4FZ was loud about 0500 but no reply.
Worked NP2X about that time who was just above the noise.
Out in the dark at 8 pm laying down radials....  And will pull them in
before church in the morning.  Enjoying the condo challenge !

73,

Jim / W1FMR / QRP / NH

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Subject: Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry

Will be lookin' for ya, Eric...have a new antenna up (just put it up this afternoon) and will be PUSING my 4.9 watts out into the ether....72, Jim R. K9JWV

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Subject: Re: Topband: Spring Stew Perry

I should be QRV this evening with my 1928 MOPA running about 19W input /
11W output.  Already worked some EU stations with it (Four Square TX),
so hoping to catch some west of Rockies guys tonight.

http://no3m.net/vintage/160m-1928-mopa/

Not quite QRP....

73 Eric NO3M

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