[UK-CONTEST] Obvservations in AFS SSB

[Alex Allan]

Hi
Since I asked the antenna height question, maybe I should mention my
antenna.  Not that I would recommend it. It was an 80M delta loop, i.e. a
triangle with the base up (At 45ft) and the point down.  Fed at the bottom
with 12ft of of 600ohm o/w line.   It was pretty pathetic. I want to go back
to my 145ft doublet at 45ft but the pulley at the top of my pine tree is
jammed :0(
Interesting about hearing EU stations I only heared LY3BA and two very weak
Germans,  that is probably telling me something!!

Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dunnington" <user at john-dunnington.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 2:41 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Obvservations in AFS SSB


> Don G3BJ raises the point of antenna height
> Don before I start CW Leg I used a balun fed Dipole (Sloping but not
enough
> TBC an Inv Vee) with the feed point 75ft in the air and 25ft above my X-7
> Yagi. Slight bend One leg East' other 300 Deg. I used this during SSB but
> about 25ft lower.
>
> AFS SSB
> The loudest by far was NLY but most of the big-guns were very loud. I
spent
> well over an hour QSX to YDX and BWP with Fred in my left ear and Ron in
my
> right. Fred was ahead some 10-QSO's at 17z but what was different was that
> Ron had a steady stream of Eu callers intermixed with M3's and even a
novice
> as I recall. Fred for whatever reason during the period of observation had
> longer gaps between callers and eventually lost out in the numbers to Ron.
> Put this down to the GW call, antenna, propagation or whatever but both
were
> very loud. Put another way Fred had to work harder for his QSO's.
>
> More worrying to me was the high number of duplicate callers..far more to
> Ron which clearly wasted valuable minutes for both. In the end both passed
> 300 before the bewitching hour.
> Obviously not everybody uses computer logging which if you S&P a lot has
to
> be the best assistant.
>
> Glean what you may out of it..I suspect not a lot.
>
> 73 John  G3LZQ
>
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