"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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Dee D. Flint wrote:
Just wanted to say I had a great time working the 160m CW contest this
weekend. Only had a random wire at less than 10ft off the ground but
worked
stations from Maine to S. Texas.

Wow. I wonder how many you would have worked on 160 with that antenna
if you had been using ssb?


It would not have worked well for sideband (although I have worked PA on ssb
on it) as it is too low to the ground and the background noise on 160m is
often high. I worked 4 hours Friday night and 4 hours Saturday night doing
the "hunt and pounce" approach. This doesn't net a lot of stations but you
find some interesting ones. Altogether I worked 104 stations in a total of
8 hours. The one I wonder about is where a person on Long Island finds room
for a 160m antenna!

I think that is one of the things that may dissapoint new hams that may
when the CW requirement is gone, (which I have predicted to happen about
the bottom of the sunspot cycle) and they get on the air, and they don't
do a whole lot after that? They will wonder what all the hubub was about.


I've often thought the same myself.

Whereas you worked a lot of the US with an antenna that by all rights
shouldn't work much at all!


As they say: any antenna is better than no antenna!

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE