[WVDXA] CQ-WW DX Contest

[Rip Smith K3XO]

I'm trying to get back in the swing of things after a period of very 
little activity.

With my rotator jammed and the beam pointing somewhere in the South 
Atlantic, I was stuck with the ground mounted Gap vertical as my only 
functional antenna, so I did a two band effort:

80m - 89 Qs - 15 zones - 47 countries
40m - 174 Qs - 20 zones - 75 countries

Total score111,470

Overall I was reasonably pleased with the antenna's performance on 40. I 
could work just about everything I could hear. However, when I was 
listening to the big guns running EU I could not hear a lot of the 
stations they were working.

On 80 it was OK for the big DX guns but there were instances where 
stations were not hearing me even when nobody else was calling. A little 
more power might have helped that (I was only running 100 watts)

I didn't even try 160. The Gap is pretty much useless over distances 
more than about 1,000 miles.

Gotta get the rotator and the beam fixed now that the sunspots have 
hopefully bottomed out for this cycle.

73 Rip K3XO



Greg Lee wrote:
> Clark,
> Looks like the hard work paid off. Now how would you like to do it 
> again? I put up an inv vee to try the contest on 160 but had RF in my 
> tuner and amp....not that an inv vee wud cut the mustard on 160.
> So I did an 80 meter effort....not a serious effort....managed 123 
> q's, with 21 zones and 71 countries....with an inv. vee at 70 ft. and 
> a search and pounce method.
>  
> 73,
> GREG LEE, W8GG
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