As Luke VK3HJ has stated, the QRN was bad here in VK3 and probably all
over VK, including at VK6LW, I expect.
But I pushed through the QRN pain barrier and even called CQ test a few
times, but no replies, not even from locals or ZL's.
So I ended up only calling any strong signals heard and
Conditions were marginal.
I only worked the regulars which I work all year round also during solar
maximum.
NA only east coast, to Texas and Carribean, but nothing above that line.
To the east I heard some JA but not strong enough to make a QSO. HL5IVL
had a big pile up but I did not try.
I agree with Luke. Condx around Australasia were worse than mediocre. I
didn't hear any VK6s and only a couple of JAs in the first session.
JA4UYB was quite good on peaks of deep QSB, but he never heard me. Only
LY7Z from Eu and he kept CQing right through me.
In the second session stations
At my remote site I have an inverted L that is supported by a 40ft square
aluminium lattice “frangible" tower. Yes I have it guyed. There is a
14ft fibreglass pole fixed to the top of the tower. There is short piece
of aluminium tubing in the top of the pole and the bend in the L wire is
Well conditions weren't particularly good . . . but they were OK.
I came on for about an hour from 0100Z, and for another hour at 0500Z.
Managed to work a total of 56 NA stations, including across to Louisiana,
Texas, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
I was generally pretty pleased with
FWIW
Probably 15-20 years ago I was thinking of building an LPD HF antenna, I
purchased two 20 foot lengths of 2" x 1/8" wall square fiberglass tubing for the
boom. The antenna never happened and the tubing has been laying on the ground
in the Arizona sun since then. It looks essentially
I've been using 8' 1.5" dia painted fiberglass top and bottom of my 85ft
T as standoffs from a fir tree. An 18" long bracket is lagged to the
tree both places to make it stable and lower the FG stress. OK after 6
years, occasional ice and snow.
PVC gets very flabby at 80F and higher and
I just dabbled in the test. I've recently replaced the K3S with a TS-890 and am
still learning the ropes. After working flawlessly for a couple of weeks I had
a newly developed interface problem with the Elecraft KPA500 tuner, which
naturally popped up during the test.
I thought condx were
VE9AA:
I don't have a tower supported Inverted L, but I have a slightly different
way of supporting the center of a 20m 4-square array of inverted L's and
wanted something non conductive so I use 1.5" grey electrical PVC conduit
and it's stood up many years in a harsh environment with wild
By Mike VE9AA
They gathered on 160 at night
To have that friendly fight
The static it crashed
Some records got smashed
The grids logged were mostly right
Antennas were hung just before
In hopes for a chance to score
A plaque by the man
Dr. Beldar (says a fan)
That wood for a temp
I've used a PVC pipe around 1.5 or 2" o.d. and ~ 3 feet long, for the
past 11 years. No problems so far but it is braced with dacron from
the insulator end, back up to the mast a few feet above where the PVC
is clamped to the mast. Mine is unprotected from sun but the sun
exposure is less in
Is a night before Chritsmas and all through the shackNot at RR was delivered
not even a sackThe ladder line was hung up the tower with careIn Hope's that St
Nick soon will be thereThe harmonics were all snuggled in bedWith visions of
the new space Gardians dancing on their headsWith mamna with
I had hoped to give a few DX QSO in this SP, but conditions are just
horrible. The storm static has been epic all weekend, and signals are pretty
ordinary. I did try calling a few stations in NA around our sunset, but had
no response. Since sunset, the storm static has increased, and all
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