Been active for a few mornings this week. VK6LW showed up just before sunrise and was worked easily. Dennis, ZL1AZ has been active every day that I was on this week as well. Nice to have some consistent activity from ZL that late into their night (I know ZL3IX tends to QRT a few hours before my sunrise).
Thanks for all the comments about my tower feeding issue. I ended up going back to a gamma match after briefly trying an omega one. The chart in the 5th version of the ON4UN book worked very well for me. I figured my tower was around 120 degrees and put the gamma up about 20 feet from the top of the tower (the tower is 97 feet with a 40M OWA beam on top with insulated parasitic elements). Was able to get a good SWR with about 180 pf of capacitance. So far - it appears to be performing well, so looks like I am set for the upcoming season. The results from the Summer Stew are basically final. You can look them over here - https://www.kkn.net/stew/STEWSCR.TXT Congrats to K1KI, who just edged out K2AV for the top spot. Tree N6TR _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
