Yesterday was FUN. Of course it went different than planned. Hiked in to the FD site about 45minutes from TH. Then I spent more time slinging the weight and untangling string from brush to get the silly antenna up than operating. Started out w/88' CFZ fed w/40' RS twin lead (hung @35' inverted vee fashiion) - Actually I didn't measure it exactly but that's what I rolled off at OEM the local electronic surplus candy store - so it may have really been 90-92'. Loaded great on 20/30 w/KX1 but 9:1 on 40m according to the KX1's ATU? So I folded back the ends on themselves about ~6' and SWR droped to 3.5:1 on 40m while 20/30m still were 1.1:1 range. Could have trimmed it more but I was burning daylight!
Cndx were so-so, weak sigs + slow QSB? It was getting on into the AM so 40m was getting short. I couldn't raise anyone on 40m. Headed to 30m. it was busy with CHers (I think) on to 20m where I had 3-short Qs on 20m with: n6voh/Barry in CA, nf0z /Larry in AZ and my bro-inlaw ac7ma/Rich in WA Got good reprts considering the CNDX. Goats we're getting restless butting heads etc. and got tangled in my feedline while sparing and jerted the feedline outa the ATU!. So I finished the Q with Rich on my cell. Never got to the EF setup before I ran outa time. I got home just in time to spread horse manure w/tractor and spreader for 7-hrs!! It's the same type of work I do at job! =8-) Conclussion was YMMV Steve/n0tu ______________________________________________________________ QRP-L mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/qrp-l Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
