Topband: Antenna check for V31XX

[Wes]

I worked you before and during the contest.  You were 5NN :-)

Don't ask what you really were, but I have a really modest station, so you were 
doing something right.  TS-890, KPA500 and an inverted-L, 55 ft vertical, the 
rest horizontal (only 18 on ground radials).  I receive on the TX antenna and 
still hear better than I get out.  I just did a low-key S&P operation.  107 Qs, 
six JA, one UA0, one BY, two XE, two HI, one ZF and you.

I spent most of my time playing Band/Slot Bingo with TO6S.  If the stats don't 
change, I was No. 1 in Zone 3 and No. 3 in the world from my S. AZ sandbox.

Wes  N7WS



On 1/31/2022 1:13 PM, cqtestk4xs--- via Topband wrote:
> After  putting down 3600 yard staples to install 55 radials 130 ft for my 100 ft wire vertical with a 30 ft L I was ready for the 160 test.  For RX I used an SAL-30 which performed well at my old QTH in KH6.
> The only other V3 station was V31MA who has an excellent location close to the water with a great take off to W/K and EU, but ran LP, so it was hard to compare on the RBN.  I'm curious how the antenna performed as i finished the radials right before the contest and really didn't have a chance to check it out on the air.  I had quite a few EU and many JAs that were there but I couldn't copy them as they were in the mud.
> Any comments on the signal/condx would be appreciated.
> 73  Bill K4XS/V31XX
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