[WVDXA] 160 Meter Contest

[Clark L. Stewart]

Jeff,

      I did not have a chance to comment on your antenna earlier.  Looks 
like you put up a doozy!  And, I think you did a better job than I did (at 
least your's worked right off the bat!)

      Congratulations on the great showing in the contest.  I only played 
S&P looking for new countries but if I saw a WV station spotted, I tried to 
give him a call.  I also worked the following WV stations:

K8JQ (turns out we were in College together!)
N2EE
W8PBO (a good friend from Ravenswood)
K8OQL (a WVDXA Member!)

      I think I had 46 QSO's of which 21 were DX.  Final score was just 
over 5,000 points.

      My BIG news is that I worked FOUR NEW Countries and TWO NEW Zones in 
the contest.  I worked 9A2DQ and GM3POI for new countries and I worked 
KL7WV (nice call!) in Zone Ø1 and RWØCWA in Zone 19 (Asiatiac Russia!)  The 
RWØCWA contact completes my 160-M W.A.C. in just 9 days on the band.  WHOOPEE!

      So Jeff, looks like we started something here in the WVDXA by putting 
up "not the best" antennas and managing to work some good stuff.  I know 
Tim, KC8UHE, put up an Inverted "V" combo (80-M & 160-M) and I think he 
made at least a couple of QSO's in the contest as well.

      CONGRATULATIONS on getting on 160-M for the contest.  I sure hope you 
get as much enjoyment out of this band as I'm having.


Clark, W8TN
66 Countries Now on 160-M

At 11:37 PM 11/30/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>Guys,
>
>I like several put up a 160 meter antenna for this contest.  I had
>never been on 160 before and I have worked about 10 qso's so far.
>
>But I believe my antenna would make any electrical engineer cry and
>put every one of his hairs out.
>
>I did not decide to put the antenna up until about 2 pm.  Then I
>relized I could not go to Morgantown get the parts  put it together
>and have up by sundown.  Here is the parts list that I used
>
>260 feet of wire (well it was splice together with wire nuts and
>covered with duct tape.
>
>My coax is some old rg 58 I had laying around
>
>I use a piece of broken plexiglass for my feed point
>
>one insulator is glass the other is a plastic dog bone type
>
>And last but not least it is tied off with bailing twine.
>
>Beleive it or not it is resonant at 1.833 according to my $300.00
>antenna analyzer.
>
>Cost of antenna 4 or 5 dollars
>Antenna analyzer 300
>the fun I am having priceless
>
>73
>
>Jeff
>KZ8E

At 08:55 PM 12/2/2007 +0000, you wrote:
>Guys,
>
>This was my first experience with 160 meters.  I always figured that
>it was not worth the headache of making an antenna.  Was I wrong.  I
>had a lot of fun, and I am looking forward to the next one.  And I am
>beginning to work on my next antenna.  (Don't think the "Redneck 160
>meter antenna" will be on the market anytime soon).
>
>I made 107 QSO's with a little over 10,000 points and a total of 7
>DXCC worked. I hope that everyone had a good time.
>
>WV Stations that I worked
>
>K8JQ
>N2EE
>K3JT
>K8OQL
>AJ1M
>
>73
>
>Jeff
>KZ8E
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