Wish I woulda heard ya., Jim - would have been nice to have you in my log.
Ended up with 80 Qs with one KL7 and three KH6s in the mix. Longest stateside Q was either a fella in PA or a fella in NC (can't remember which). Heard FM5CD Saturday evening but he wasn't hearing my peanut whistle as all I heard him replying to was east coast stations. Condx were the pits here as well - rolling noise, growling noise - made my ears hurt! Congrats on getting your "stealth antenna" put up and taken down with no "LEOs" all over ya! Hope to work ya someday! 72, Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 13:37:32 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Topband: Thrashing around in the Stew > > Friday afternoon was spent putting 140' of wire in the trees but > was not able to spend time operating until Saturday evening. > > Thought there was no one on the band until accidentally tuning > up a ways and there they were. Couldn't get beyond 900 miles > (needing many repeats) and about midnight decided to try an above > ground radial hoping for a boost, but no luck but did not get > arrested for crashing around in the woods at midnight either. > > Even tried hastilly winding a choke balun around 1 am, but it only hung up > the keyer with RF feedback which forced me to quit N1MM and lose the > dupe sheet. Still no luck, but 160m is sure a fun band. Had a few hours > sleep then shortly after daybreak made a few more then reeled in the > raised radial before someone in the condo complex walked into it. > > Thanks to all who dug my 5 watts out of the noise and > especially those who tried and tried but couldn't. Maybe I will figure out > how to get this FCP assembled and up before too long. My #1 goal is to > work Herb, KV4FZ from this location as he always has a good signal. > > Nice to have worked K2AV and W0UCE - my FCP heroes last night ! > > 73, > > Jim / W1FMR > > > > > couldn't > _______________________________________________ > Remember the PreStew coming on October 20th. http://www.kkn.net/stew for > more info. _______________________________________________ Remember the PreStew coming on October 20th. http://www.kkn.net/stew for more info.
