On 1/26/2009 Dan Zimmerman N3OX wrote:
>> IC 706MKIIG barefoot >> 10-15-20 Rotateable Dipole at about 25 feet >> 135 Foot wire dipole - fed with window line at about 50 feet -- wiht LDG >> AT200 Pro tuner for 10 - 80 (160 is miserable) >> 3 Ele Cushcraft Yagi on 6 at about 30 feet >> I want to try to make contact with Descheo island this february, as well as >> improve my over all DXing. Right now in this economy, hardware upgrades are >> not much of an option -- so im looking for techniques and the like. > You'll have no problem, in my opinion, if you stick to your guns and call > cleverly. KP5 is a chipshot from NA... as easy to work as KP4 if you didn't > have the massive pileups. Your signal strength is no problem, you're going > to be an easy 59+10dB in KP5. ...snip.... I have a smaller station than the OP (100 watts into a A-D DXEE at 25 ft) and broke the pile on 20m the last expedition - a tad of luck, yes, my only band, yes, but keep trying, figuring out the operating pattern, and you should get through - my goal this time around is 40m. I don't pig on it - I never even tried the other bands last time -- 73 de KG2V For the Children - RKBA! The Spartans do not ask the number of the enemy, only where they are. -- Agix of Sparta ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to [email protected] In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
