Topband: CQWW160SSB contest

[terry burge]

Well now!

I sort of tracked down my intermittent that caused my 160 inv'L to have the SWR shoot thru the roof. At least I have it working. Replacing coax jumpers in the shack and multiple taps on the antenna coil I apparently tracked down a coax jumper between the W2 Elecraft wattmeter and the Palstar AT5K-HP tuner input. That or the coax between the multiple switch and the MFJ window feed thru. Both have been replaced. One of the coax's was from MPD digital which I consider very good quality and still could not find an open or short checking with my DMM? Go figure! Anyway the inv'L will now take 1000+ watts of drive and the ganged antenna switches appear to be working. Strange how the problem only showed up on the inv'L and not on any other band or antenna. But right now things appear alright...the K3, palstar amp (HF-2500), going thru the tuner and the switches are working so I'm apparently ready for the contest this weekend. Hope to work a lot of you this weekend.

Bueatiful day today in Oregon and the Cascades with their snow pack makes a nice view.

Terry
KI7M

> On February 17, 2020 at 12:54 PM terry burge <ki7m at comcast.net> wrote:
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> It's us little pistols who make up a good deal of your scores I expect. Not that I'm such a little one but this season I have not even been able to get my inv 'L to work right. Put in power and SWR goes thru the roof????? Go Figure. Planning on seting up a K2AV FCP but it won't be by next weekend and my favorite 160 contest....160CQSSB. Been lazy this winter I guess.
> 
> Terry
> KI7M
> 
> > On February 17, 2020 at 10:54 AM Bill Stewart <cwopr at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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> > Even us little pistols can have loads of fun. I managed to work 41 DX stns with 
> > 35 countries. Seventeen stns were in EU & 17 in the Carib. Rest in Cent. Am. 
> > and KH6. I was hearing strong EU stns just before our sunset, but my first EU QSO 
> > was around 0100Z on Fri and 0Z on Sat night. The strongest EU sigs were in the 
> > S-7/S-8 range and Carib stns mostly a true 59+. KH7M & KH6/N6DA both bumping 
> > S9 plus at times. My last log entry was LY7Z at 2351Z Sun night. Not being in the 
> > contest, I just hunted and pounced on the strongest sigs. Got some, missed some. 
> > I was using a TS-440S, 100W, a run-of-the-mill Inv. L. I heard no bad ops...all were 
> > courteous and no big pileups. As noted, there were a few speed demons, but some 
> > careful listening got them figured out. One op, may have been S50C, worked with 
> > me over a minute to get me in his log. All gave me a good chance to get thru. 
> > Fun! 
> > 
> > 73 de Bill K4JYS/NC 
> > 
> > 
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