Saturday, 2 February 2013

CQWW-160 CW QRP entry

I will come suitably low on the list.

http://cq160.com/logs_received_cw.shtml

Congrats VE3MGY (for now he is highest qrp op) almost 40 times my score :-)

4 comments:

  1. Dom, I've just been reading VE3MGY's QRZ.com page. He's certainly been working hard at top band QRP for a long time! Very interesting reading, and a good article at the end of the page as well.
    72
    Pete M3KXZ
    GQRP 11767
    SKCC 10219

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  2. Pete,

    My long wire is 140ft (maybe too long), abt 20ft up 120ft long and 20ft up at end. Fed against a lot of radials.

    In his article he uses an inverted L 55ft up, 80ft along dropping to 30ft agl fed aganist radials.

    Dom

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  3. I think he's also got a full size dipole for 160m, set up as inverted V. Did you notice how many thousand of metres of wire he's got up over his plot? Amazing.

    Pete

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  4. Yes... if you have the time and space then it is amazing what you can do.

    I have seen one 160m installation (in UK) where some raised radials are actually galvanized barbed wire not copper.

    I was thinking at one point asking the land over to rear of garden if he might let me put up something there, and I'd buy a load of Ali wire.... but he had metal thieves in and they stole a load of stuff so I thought not worth it.

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