Been Hamming....

Fired up th erig last night afeter workign eves. 40m was active btu not as good as earlier int he week. Worked...


2011-11-25 07:27:00
F8KA
40m
7.031
CW
Robert BAILLY

2011-11-25 07:02:00
G0NXA
40m
7.049
CW
GILES HERBERT

2011-11-25 06:45:00
HB9BQR
40m
7.035
CW
Roland BURKHARD

2011-11-25 06:28:00
EA8AU
40m
7.045
CW
MIGUEL PEREZ LEAL

2011-11-25 06:05:00
I1MMR
40m
7.051
CW
MAURO MORANDO

2011-11-25 05:52:00
9A3JH
40m
7.027
CW
ANDREA VIDAS

I was playing with the CW decoder software and watching the "DX Cluster" page while working the above.

Today I fixed up my 80m Dipole. It had broke in where is had soldered the wire together on both legs. I repaired the wires and rehung the antenna. Its on the side of a steep hill so its somewhere between a Vertical or an Inverted V. Anyhow when I connected the repaired antenna to the old FT7B I heard lots of US QSOs. I compared the Dipole to the 40/20/15/10 14avq Vertical and there was a big difference in signal.

Walked up to the top of the Hill and inspected the 14AVQ and IFL. The Antenna has a pretty good lean towards the SE. Years of being battered by high winds. Its not going to affect the way it works but I will do a 180 with it so it bends itself back to straight.

I also want to run more IFL to the top of the Hill for VHF stuff.... another day perhaps.