Hello all, This was my second year for MSWE and it seemed like conditions were worse than last year, but my persistence was up.
I got started at my Woodville QTH about 3 hours after the event started and logged 17 ships by 2300 UTC on Sunday. The majority of those were on my Maxcon 80-6 OCF dipole at 35'. However, i did get 5 total contacts on my PAR Electronics 20m Omni. at 25'. Nice when I can use that antenna as it drops the noise about 5 S units. All but one of my contacts were at 100w. One of them I got at 20w as I forgot to switch the power back to 100w after finding out PSK31 still isn't working on my Kenwood. I know what I need to do better next year are antennas with GAIN. Thanks to Rick, the op on the Elissa, I think that was my 15th ship. I know getting to Galveston was a bit dangerous due to the high water. Next year I'd like to do more digital on MSWE, like RTTY and PSK31, if I can ever get the bugs out of my HRD + Kenwood setup. And i'd like to try a magnetic loop antenna when using those modes. I am curious, did anyone else in the club participate and if you did, what was your setup and how did you do? 73, Rob, KC5RET
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