Hello Roger,
You had a great signal last night. At one point you called CQ and I
answered with 5 watts, but you did not hear me. I did work I think two
stations while running 5 watts here. One was HA0NAR. This morning was a
big ZERO. I was up at 1000 UT and called CQ but had no QSOs and heard no
DX. I did go and check out FT-8. RA0FF and RA0CY were both on FT8 as
were afew KL7 stations. That was a bit of a bummer for me.
I am having a problem with creeping SWR that climbs up to over 2:1 if I
am doing a lot of QRO calling. At first, I thought it was my really bad
temporary installation with a vise clamp holding the N connector bracket
to the tower base and the series doorknob capacitor sitting out in the
weather and snow. During the Stew, the SWR got so high I had to go out
and shovel the snow and ice away from it. I figured the snow and water
was making the SWR bad. I built a suitable wx proof enclosure with a
nice porcelain insulator and the type N connector input, but the heating
is more pronounced. Apparently the ice was keeping the cap cooler! So
now I am looking for another cap that will not overheat.
On 1/9/2020 9:56 PM, Roger Kennedy wrote:
Well sadly conditions were rather poor last night . . .
Also I wasn't sure how many stations made it on the band, as I had
torrential rain all night, and with the 400kV power lines a mile away that
caused a high noise level, so could only copy stations above S7.
Oh well . . . perhaps it will be better next Wednesday !
73 Roger G3YRO
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