Well I came on for a couple of hours during the contest . . .
Conditions seemed OK, not particularly good, but not bad either.
Managed to work everyone I heard, which was a total of 37 NA stations, so
was pretty happy with that. Worked down to Florida and the Caribbean, but
nothing further west
To clarify:
> The sign your antenna is efficient will be a
> narrow R and X sweet spot. R should drop down to around 14 ohms and
> (depending on the length of the driven element) X should hit zero over
> a few kc.
I should have written:
X should hit zero over a few kc at some point in the band,
