I have a 5 Section Tower with all the hardware. It is 45 Feet high with the Pole. sections are 8 feet. Still cradled together. Never put up. Looking for 3 Sections of Rohn 45 and the top piece. The picture show what it looks like. If you have an interest I will take real pics. Even Swap!
Thanks Bob W1IG
I certainly wasn’t full time in this contest putting only about 10 hours of BIC time. For me, 20 meters was the big band with little activity on 15 and none on 10. I did work VK9NK on 40 which was a big hit for me. Also worked other VKs and a couple KH6 on 20.
Here’s the result…
Club/Team : CTRI Contest Group
Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.8131.0
Band QSOs Pts WPX Pt/Q
3.5 25 52 10 2.1
7 94 272 56 2.9
14 231 518 179 2.2
21 29 46 14 1.6
Total 379 888 259 2.3
Score : 229,992 About 2 Hours of OP time
First contest in quite a while.
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: W1IG
CLUB: CTRI Contest Group
CONTEST: CQ-WPX-RTTY
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: RTTY
CATEGORY-POWER: QRP
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 1770
OPERATORS: W1IG
NAME: BOB XXXXX
ADDRESS-CITY: WATERBURY
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06708
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: W1AMF@nullAOL.COM
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.8131.0
QSO: 21000 RY 2020-02-09 1813 W1IG 599 0001 KS7AA 599 1921
QSO: 14087 RY 2020-02-09 1823 W1IG 599 0002 KS7AA 599 1946
QSO: 14088 RY 2020-02-09 1826 W1IG 599 0003 N4BP 599 1053
QSO: 14090 RY 2020-02-09 1829 W1IG 599 0004 WD5DBV 599 0143
QSO: 14091 RY 2020-02-09 1838 W1IG 599 0005 AA2MF 599 1231
QSO: 14093 RY 2020-02-09 1840 W1IG 599 0006 WW5M 599 1070
QSO: 14095 RY 2020-02-09 1842 W1IG 599 0007 KD7RUS 599 0117
QSO: 14101 RY 2020-02-09 1850 W1IG 599 0008 K2ADA 599 1186
QSO: 14103 RY 2020-02-09 1853 W1IG 599 0009 NE2CC 599 1045
QSO: 14105 RY 2020-02-09 1903 W1IG 599 0010 KZ0US 599 0803
QSO: 14107 RY 2020-02-09 1904 W1IG 599 0011 AB0LR 599 0944
QSO: 14107 RY 2020-02-09 1907 W1IG 599 0012 VA7ST 599 0735
QSO: 14111 RY 2020-02-09 1915 W1IG 599 0013 K9CT 599 1156
QSO: 14112 RY 2020-02-09 1917 W1IG 599 0014 KY4DBY 599 0374
QSO: 14113 RY 2020-02-09 1919 W1IG 599 0015 N0IRM 599 0419
QSO: 14115 RY 2020-02-09 1927 W1IG 599 0016 N7NM 599 0509
QSO: 14115 RY 2020-02-09 1954 W1IG 599 0017 KK6VIX 599 0001
QSO: 14116 RY 2020-02-09 1957 W1IG 599 0018 NX0I 599 0946
QSO: 14119 RY 2020-02-09 2000 W1IG 599 0019 KF7U 599 1116
QSO: 14120 RY 2020-02-09 2002 W1IG 599 0020 P49X 599 3033
QSO: 14122 RY 2020-02-09 2024 W1IG 599 0021 AC0C 599 1637
QSO: 14123 RY 2020-02-09 2030 W1IG 599 0022 NC0DX 599 0906
QSO: 14125 RY 2020-02-09 2031 W1IG 599 0023 VA7KO 599 0869
QSO: 14132 RY 2020-02-09 2104 W1IG 599 0024 KI6RRN 599 0846
QSO: 14087 RY 2020-02-09 2110 W1IG 599 0025 WB5BHS 599 0650
QSO: 14089 RY 2020-02-09 2113 W1IG 599 0026 K0TC 599 0282
QSO: 14090 RY 2020-02-09 2116 W1IG 599 0027 W7VXS 599 0240
QSO: 14095 RY 2020-02-09 2129 W1IG 599 0028 K7WP 599 0576
QSO: 14097 RY 2020-02-09 2134 W1IG 599 0029 K4QD 599 0033
QSO: 7047 RY 2020-02-09 2139 W1IG 599 0030 N4CW 599 0299
QSO: 7049 RY 2020-02-09 2212 W1IG 599 0031 K4XL 599 0868
QSO: 7055 RY 2020-02-09 2232 W1IG 599 0032 ZF2WF 599 2446
QSO: 7069 RY 2020-02-09 2322 W1IG 599 0033 IT9RGY/4 599 1251
QSO: 7070 RY 2020-02-09 2325 W1IG 599 0034 SX2I 599 2027
QSO: 7089 RY 2020-02-09 2353 W1IG 599 0035 K9CT 599 1320
QSO: 7092 RY 2020-02-09 2354 W1IG 599 0036 AA2MF 599 1509
QSO: 7095 RY 2020-02-09 2356 W1IG 599 0037 NC0DX 599 1005
We hope everyone survived the big wind storm yesterday. We were lucky here. Lost power about 3 PM and not restored until 9 AM this morning. The ProJo indicated that South Kingstown/Charlestown took the brunt of it. It was pretty scary. The 160 vertical bent in the wind but survived in perfect shape. The 40 meter Yagi was bending pretty good but heading the tower at 90 degrees to the wind avoided any damage., A big tree at the top of the driveway snapped taking down the 30 meter delta loop…actually a good thing as it cleared space for it to go back up higher/better later. Again, hope everyone was as lucky. We gotta be ready for all the contests coming up. 73 ! — John, W1XX
I liked this one so sharing…
Good morning. Hope all can make it to the meeting today at 9 AM. Careful, It’s a little icy out there.
I will bring the coffee and cake.
73, John W1AN
K1SX SO LP
235–44–21–47,255
9.5 hours, not necessarily at the best times
Genesis G11 SDR, homebrew SSPA, inv L 65-65′ w/16 radials
I actually got the SSPA heat sink hot for the first time 🙂
Still on the learning curve for how to do a 160m contest well. I made a big improvement over last year with only a few more q’s, by concentrating on mults and higher point values.
I had 19 ten-pointers. But other NE ops outscored me anyway, with much higher qso numbers. Some 3830 posters are excited about the great conditions, but to me they were mediocre to average, with deep qsb that cost a number of points. Sat. was better definitely. The crashes were luckily only occasional with the storm. I had a couple ok runs–I held down 1802.3 for a long time at one point, K3LR move over! But my runs didn’t attract the Eu callers that some seem to find. Or were they calling and I heard nothing? In the big picture I think I need more balance of running, easy s&p and the digging. Maybe a beverage can happen this spring–but that might have me calling even more stns that can’t hear me.
I heard KL7SB faintly–that was a first. CR3W was the strongest Eu throughout. I wasted a lot of calls on the very loud FM5–no luck. Yet some very weak stns also heard me.
Other members heard or wkd–AB1BX patiently running up higher in the band, W1WBB doing qrp (I’ve sworn off for 160 Bill!) , W1XX, W1HI, KA1J, W1CTN. Ri gets you some attention in this one.
73, Dave K1SX
Sorry on the E-mail it is Andrew-Clark93@nullcomcast.net DE KA1VMG
Please update my E-mail ad to Andrew-Clark93@nullcomcast.com thank you
Andy Clark KA1VMG
Conditions seem reasonable with A=5, K=1. Weather unsettled, but we can hope.
This contest tends to spread out, so I’m reminding myself to look high in the band.
Local time: Fri. 5pm–Sunday 5pm
Exchange: RST+State for us, RST + CQ zone for DX
Scoring: 2 pts. US, 5 pts NA, 10 points rest of world
Mults: States, provinces, countries (but not zones)
Assistance: This is getting complicated. Better just read the rules!
Rules: https://www.cq160.com/rules.htm
GL & 73,
Dave K1SX
Call: NG1M
Operator(s): NG1M
Station: NG1M
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Location: USA
Summary: Compare Scores
Band QSOs Mults
160: 0 0
80: 217 37
40: 43 18
20: 47 18
15: 2 2
10: 0 0
Total: 309 75 Total Score 23,175
Spent Saturday on the radio. Learned a few things:
1. Need to be brave and call CQ from the onset. My run on 80M was generating rates over a 100!
2. When running you can be squeezed off the frequency by more powerful stations
3. People wanted RI – another blinding flash of the obvious
4. Bands don’t last a long as one expects – people moved off 20M & 40M early
5. Need to get the voice keyer working
6. Need to get the 160M antenna off the basement floor & up. Was asked by several folks on 80M to just to 160M for a Q / multiplier
7. AND contesting is easier when there’s no football on!
I was setting up to operate the ARRL VHF Contest this past weekend and had the idea of also using my recently purchased IC-7300 as a Panadapter/Band-Scope to monitor the Receive IF Outputs of my VHF/UHF transverters. I don’t have much experience using Band-Scopes and figured it might be helpful, and that it should work since a VHF band is converted to a 28 MHz IF, and the IC-7300 could be set up to show 200 KHz of that 28 MHz IF output on its Band-Scope screen.
While I was cabling it to my transverter control box I thought to myself it could be very bad if I should accidentally find a way to transmit on the IC-7300 up into my transverters’ RX outputs and also into my main JRC IF transceiver’s receiver. It only took a half hour to make up the Receiver Protector in the picture, and it turned out that I was actually glad I did. At several points due to inactivity on the IC-7300 controls its screen timed out and went blank with the power button flashing, so I tapped the power button for the display to come back to life. About the third time I did that, I accidentally also hit the “Transmit” button which is immediately below the power button and the IC-7300 went into transmit. Within a couple of seconds I hit that button again to stop it from transmitting, and thankfully no harm was done. Funny that I had forgotten all about the front panel transmit button when I was removing my microphone and hand key connections. Maybe it didn’t actually transmit much as its mode was set to SSB with no microphone connected and the power turned down, or possibly there was a small spike and the Receiver Protector actually did what it was supposed to do.
My conclusion was that having a Band-Scope was in fact helpful, and the under $1K brand new deal I got on my IC-7300 from DX Engineering was now even sweeter in that it added a Band-Scope to my existing VHF/UHF setup. The Contest was however as lackluster as January VHF contests typically are, with the highlights being some microwave enhancement/scatter during the heaviest part of the snowfall, and working a Rover on 50/144/222/432 MHz with “no gain” horizontal omni loops on his vehicle up on Hogback Mountain in FN32.
This type of receiver protector could be helpful with separate receive antennas for the low bands, and also to protect an SDR dongle being used as a Band-Scope with a PC. The “Antenna” jack in my case was the end connected to the potential RF source, my IC-7300. The “To Receiver” end went to my IF connection to protect the transverters’ IF outputs and the IF transceiver’s receiver input. It’s a very simple circuit which in testing both in the line, and out of the line, showed no receive loss while receiving a weak VHF beacon on the IC-7300 via the transverter, visually looking at the CW characters formed on its waterfall display as well as just listening to the beacon on the IC-7300. The beacon was the same strength with and without the Receiver Protector.
Best 73, Chris WB2VVV
Anyone else going to be doing WFD? Here at NC1CC/wa1bxy going to be running a home station little to cold for this guy…. Going to be doing a LP M2 setup. If anyone is looking/wanting to operate for few hours or? Going to have 2-7300 setup using mostly all wires from 160-10. but also have hustler 6btv that works extremly well, and that can be shared thru A TRIPLEXER.. If anyone is interested send me a email/message.
My 40m rotary dipole had twisted on the mast from the recent winds we have had and today I went up to re-align it. The wind had settled to under 20 mph by late afternoon, but by the time I got up there a snow squall started – really more like ice pellets. All in it was less than a 2 hour simple job, but I thought I would share a picture of the now re-aligned booms (which mitigate interaction between the antennas). My XYL took the picture of me up there. I would also have liked to have included front and back pictures of me in my full body harness with fall arrest, lanyards, and my add-on Kangaroo Pouch for tools, but was unable to select more than one image to add tp the post. That would have made a good follow-up to the recent tower safety presentation we had! Best 73, and Happy New Year, Chris WB2VVV
I didn’t even know we had a Facebook page! I liked it, then clicked on the “Learn More” button. It took me to the old -wa1rr- page!`
