Hi All, Thanks to all stations worked/heard during the Stew Perry warm up this weekend.
It was the first outing for my new 18m base loaded vertical for 80m/160m and the first time I've been back on 160m since I tore down my inverted L early last year with a view to putting up a more weather-robust replacement. It took a while longer than I'd planned ;-) I operated mostly to determine whether the antenna was a player or a porker. I'm delighted with how it performed. I run 100w from a Yaesu FT2000 with a K9AY for receive and logged 60 pretty much "hear em - work em" QSOs. The most distant was circa 4,500km east (UA9BA I think it was...). The antenna does have a good enough ground radial system; the radials are a mish-mash of 36 purpose laid wires (0.15 wavelength on TB), the remanents of the radial system for the old inverted L (a further 12 0.25 wires on TB) and that lot is also connected to my 64 radials for my 40m vertical (0.25 wavelength on 40m). I'll post pics and full details on the antenna soon. I put in about 6 hours from 1730utc to 2330utc Sun before I had to bail out due committments early on Sunday. Stopping at 2330utc I of course missed the best period to work W into the Americas. I had been listening that way for about an hour before I finished up and heard the following stations though I couldn't work them: KV4FZ, K3WW, W8MJ, W2BC. I didn't hear any others and most EU stations seemed to be struggling to work across the pond at that stage. Here's hoping it got easier as the night wore on. I struggled to hear local stations in the IO locator - GM, GW, G throughout, but some DL and F stations were very strong at times. For the record, the other got-aways here were as follows: RX3DBH, RV5K, R6YY, R3KM, DL7VPE/P, UA4AAC, EW1DO, LY2TS, UA4CC, UA6LCN, US6EX, OH8JJ, DK3GI, HA8BE, RX6LOL, OK1UKV. Roll on the main event! -- Regards Cormac [Cork/UTC+1] NNNN++++ http://ei4hq.cloudaccess.net EI4HQ LOG QSO: 1811 CW 2011-10-22 1719 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL7ON 599 JO62 QSO: 1827 CW 2011-10-22 1729 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL5YM 599 JO62 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1730 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UY0ZG 599 KN56 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 1732 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SM6CPY 599 JO67 QSO: 1831 CW 2011-10-22 1734 EI4HQ 599 IO51 RA4LW 599 LO44 QSO: 1818 CW 2011-10-22 1736 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL8QS 599 JO43 QSO: 1822 CW 2011-10-22 1738 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OH2XX 599 KP20 QSO: 1827 CW 2011-10-22 1741 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SE0X 599 JO99 QSO: 1834 CW 2011-10-22 1744 EI4HQ 599 IO51 HA1A 599 JO97 QSO: 1821 CW 2011-10-22 1751 EI4HQ 599 IO51 LY2XW 599 KO25 QSO: 1820 CW 2011-10-22 1752 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UT5ECZ 599 KN68 QSO: 1818 CW 2011-10-22 1753 EI4HQ 599 IO51 RN1A 599 KO48 QSO: 1834 CW 2011-10-22 1755 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UA3MIF 599 KO98 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1757 EI4HQ 599 IO51 LY7M 599 KO25 QSO: 1824 CW 2011-10-22 1800 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UX1UA 599 KO50 QSO: 1818 CW 2011-10-22 1809 EI4HQ 599 IO51 HG7T 599 KN07 QSO: 1811 CW 2011-10-22 1810 EI4HQ 599 IO51 F5IN 599 JN18 QSO: 1822 CW 2011-10-22 1813 EI4HQ 599 IO51 S58Q 599 JN76 QSO: 1836 CW 2011-10-22 1822 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OK2BFN 599 JN89 QSO: 1818 CW 2011-10-22 1826 EI4HQ 599 IO51 PA0O 599 JO33 QSO: 1837 CW 2011-10-22 1835 EI4HQ 599 IO51 RN1NW 599 KP71 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 1838 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SM5QU 599 JO99 QSO: 1822 CW 2011-10-22 1843 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL5AXX 599 JO40 QSO: 1815 CW 2011-10-22 1845 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SQ1K 599 JO84 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 1846 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL6FBL 599 JO31 QSO: 1823 CW 2011-10-22 1848 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SP9ATE 599 JN99 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1852 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DK3GI 599 JN59 QSO: 1828 CW 2011-10-22 1859 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OK1HFP 599 JN69 QSO: 1832 CW 2011-10-22 1907 EI4HQ 599 IO51 F6HHR 599 JO10 QSO: 1831 CW 2011-10-22 1918 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OK5ET 599 JO70 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1931 EI4HQ 599 IO51 G4LWB 599 IO92 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1932 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL5KUD 599 JO64 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1934 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UA9BA 599 MO04 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1943 EI4HQ 599 IO51 GM4UBJ 599 IO75 QSO: 1816 CW 2011-10-22 1949 EI4HQ 599 IO51 E73T 599 JN94 QSO: 1817 CW 2011-10-22 1950 EI4HQ 599 IO51 PA0QX 599 JO33 QSO: 1825 CW 2011-10-22 1955 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL5CL 599 JO51 QSO: 1829 CW 2011-10-22 1957 EI4HQ 599 IO51 S57DX 599 JN75 QSO: 1839 CW 2011-10-22 1959 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UA2FL 599 KO04 QSO: 1821 CW 2011-10-22 2016 EI4HQ 599 IO51 PA5WT 599 JO22 QSO: 1832 CW 2011-10-22 2025 EI4HQ 599 IO51 LY2J 599 KO14 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2036 EI4HQ 599 IO51 G0BQN 599 IO81 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2039 EI4HQ 599 IO51 F5VLY 599 JN04 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2040 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OK1DST 599 JN79 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2045 EI4HQ 599 IO51 F9KP 599 IN87 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2056 EI4HQ 599 IO51 SK3PY 599 JP82 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2101 EI4HQ 599 IO51 HA5UK 599 JN97 QSO: 1830 CW 2011-10-22 2102 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OK1FKD 599 JO60 QSO: 1814 CW 2011-10-22 2116 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UA4FEN 599 LO23 QSO: 1821 CW 2011-10-22 2121 EI4HQ 599 IO51 PA30LOU 599 JO21 QSO: 1826 CW 2011-10-22 2124 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UW5U 599 KN49 QSO: 1831 CW 2011-10-22 2132 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL2DHS 599 JO64 QSO: 1831 CW 2011-10-22 2134 EI4HQ 599 IO51 UA1OAM 599 KP94 QSO: 1831 CW 2011-10-22 2141 EI4HQ 599 IO51 PA3AM 599 JO32 QSO: 1823 CW 2011-10-22 2214 EI4HQ 599 IO51 G4MKP 599 IO92 QSO: 1824 CW 2011-10-22 2215 EI4HQ 599 IO51 OH5DA 599 KP30 QSO: 1828 CW 2011-10-22 2216 EI4HQ 599 IO51 DL5KUT 599 JO31 QSO: 1828 CW 2011-10-22 2220 EI4HQ 599 IO51 F6DDR 599 JN38 QSO: 1825 CW 2011-10-22 2235 EI4HQ 599 IO51 RL3A 599 KO84 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
