Sorry, I had a huge line noise problem, about 15 over 9 with SSB filter and maybe about S7 with it narrowed down. I operated QRP in an effort to not attract as many who I would not be able to copy. For most of the contest, I had the RF gain backed off to mask it. I could copy most of the ones I could hear with that setup, and the majority I called could hear me. There were a few big signals that could not hear me, but probably not more than 3 or 4 that were S9 or more. If I had thought I was going to operate as much as I did, I would have taken the time to hook up a beverage before I got on. That thought came and went pretty quickly when I thought about it after it was dark and cold outside.
I had the pleasure of spending some time at N5ECT/WD5R station, operating in the CQ 160m Contest a few times. Fond memories of working about 150-200 Europeans in one weekend. The Beverage receiving antennas come in 2nd to nothing except the hospitality of my friends Doug and Marlene. This year I am going to visit my son and we will likely operate together in the CQ Contest - ZF2DX. 73 & HNY... Stan, K5GO Sent from my iPad > On Dec 29, 2014, at 1:59 PM, Joel Harrison <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have always admired WD5R's VERY quite rural QTH, which also helps > tremendously! :-)) > > 73 Joel W5ZN > > >>> On Mon,12/29/2014 5:18 AM, James Rodenkirch wrote: >>> Forgot to state that both stations I used as examples were QRP entries, >>> Tim ....k5go is in AR and n9tf is in IL and I chose them 'cuz they are >>> reasonably close to each other, "mid-west sorta thang." >> >> RX antennas matter. Stations like NO3M, WD5R, N0NI, KH6LC, W8JI are >> going to work more weak signals, picking up more distant stations (and >> picking up more points during log checking for working more 100W and QRP >> stations). WD5R and W5ZN are not far from each other. WD5R's antenna >> farm enabled him to pull me out, W5ZN tried real hard, but we never made >> it. It's a bit harder for N0NI than for WD5R, but we usually make it. I >> heard K5QO pretty well and called him a bunch of times, but I don't >> think we made it. There were at least a half dozen guys with S9+ signals >> who couldn't hear me. >> >> 73, Jim K9YC >> >> >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > > > www.w5zn.org > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
