cqww 160m cw

The contest was fun, many new stations worked.
Just going around the band working every station, they are so close! Sometimes 5-6-7 stations on 1 Kc, with my filter @ 200 Hz it still was sometimes difficult to distinguish the call.
But ears have the possibility to focus on a tone and get the call+report while another [...]

inverted L

Last week erected my Inverted-L based on a spider flexpole, 14m high.
After some troubles it worked ok, wire is thin alu about 40m.
I was lucky no cutting necessary, SWR was 1:1 easy with the tuner of my PA.
Worked ZD8!, E44, TS (3V) with clear signals. Heard W9 and VE9DX.
I moved the beverage out of the [...]

Experimenting with Beverages

Thanks to Johan PE9DX I have some beverages for 160m and can try them out.
I did work on 160m some qso in the Steve Perry contest but real DX was not heard on this side.
And tx was difficult, I used a PKW All Rad vertical (9m, no radials). With 600W I was not heard in [...]