Topband: PreStew coming next weekend

[David Olean]

I had a bad time with the Pre Stew. My station was all ripped apart and 
the rig stored in boxes! It took me until about 0200 UT to get things 
working and my receive seemed poor. I ran QRP just to see if I could be 
heard. (Not too many heard me)  I did not work Europe or the West Coast. 
I could tell that my Europe beverage wire was NG.

The next day , I walked along the wires in the woods and it was a huge 
mess with trees all down across the wires and insulators pulled out of 
trees that did not fall down!!  I spent the better part of a day fixing 
and testing things. i finished up on Monday and now have the Europe 
beverage working as it should.  I will try out my receiving wires over 
the next few days. I hope they are working OK with DX signals!

73

Dave K1WHS

On 10/21/2019 6:32 PM, uy0zg wrote:
> Hi
>
> In southern Ukraine it was very weak with North America.
>
> None of the NA answered my CQ TEST.
>
> All QSOs are the result of my search.
>
> Many quickly disassembled my signal.
>
> Super RX - K1KI, NO3M.
>
> Doesn't hear anyone K3CCR.
>
> CX6VM I listened only to the vertical!
>
> After sunrise, the XE2X heard me.
>
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> I am very pleased - good Contest.
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> Nick, UY0ZG
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> Tree писал 2019-10-13 19:12:
>> The popular PreStew event is coming on Oct 19/20th next weekend 
>> starting at
>> 1500Z and running for 24 hours.
>>
>> The band has been improving with good signals from Europe into West 
>> coats
>> of North America and daily openings from VK to North America and Europe.
>>
>> Full rules and previous results available at http://www.kkn.net/stew
>>
>> Tree N6TR
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