Keith Hosman KC8TCQ wrote:

I went up and worked with the Fulton County club(K8BXQ) for Field Day.

Man I think I got bit by the DX bug, worked 20 meters all the time I was
operating, until about 4:30 (EDT) AM this morning(Sunday). Worked a few
alaska stations, a few stations in the Virgin Islands, tried to work a
Hawaii station but he was working a huge pileup.

For some reason I had trouble getting heard when responding to CQs.
Might have been
too much QRM. Was running about 50 watts into a multiband vertical.

"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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Keith Hosman KC8TCQ wrote:

I went up and worked with the Fulton County club(K8BXQ) for Field Day.

Man I think I got bit by the DX bug, worked 20 meters all the time I was
operating, until about 4:30 (EDT) AM this morning(Sunday). Worked a few
alaska stations, a few stations in the Virgin Islands, tried to work a
Hawaii station but he was working a huge pileup.

For some reason I had trouble getting heard when responding to CQs.
Might have been
too much QRM. Was running about 50 watts into a multiband vertical.


That will make it more difficult to break through. But part of FD is to
learn how to deal with the QRM, different power settings, different
antennas, etc.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

We built a 32 foot 1/4 wave vertical out of swimming pool poles -- with four
32 foot elavated radials -- it was a screamer on the 40 meter band -- SWR
was 1.15 to 1 across the band. Worked the western USA from San Diego area --
no problem.

It also tuned to 15M (3/4 vertical) and swr was 2.5 to 1 which the rig tuner
compensated for. Worked all across country on 15M.

--
Lamont Cranston

The Shadow Knows
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"Robert Casey" wrote in message
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Keith Hosman KC8TCQ wrote:

I went up and worked with the Fulton County club(K8BXQ) for Field Day.

Man I think I got bit by the DX bug, worked 20 meters all the time I was
operating, until about 4:30 (EDT) AM this morning(Sunday). Worked a few
alaska stations, a few stations in the Virgin Islands, tried to work a
Hawaii station but he was working a huge pileup.

For some reason I had trouble getting heard when responding to CQs.
Might have been
too much QRM. Was running about 50 watts into a multiband vertical.

Robert Casey wrote:

Keith Hosman KC8TCQ wrote:

I went up and worked with the Fulton County club(K8BXQ) for Field Day.

Man I think I got bit by the DX bug, worked 20 meters all the time I was
operating, until about 4:30 (EDT) AM this morning(Sunday). Worked a few
alaska stations, a few stations in the Virgin Islands, tried to work a
Hawaii station but he was working a huge pileup.

For some reason I had trouble getting heard when responding to CQs.
Might have been
too much QRM. Was running about 50 watts into a multiband vertical.


We went through 2 radios for 20m before we finally got one that worked
decently, 100W into a tribander at 70 ft? that was mounted to the bucket
of a cherry picker.

Adam KB8MDF had a cool idea to build a 160m loop, and then split part of
it off for 40m, last I talked to him saturday night when he left to get
some sleep he and Dave had around 100 contacts on 40 and I can't recall
how many on 160.

The only station we really had any problems working was the Hawaii, the
rest came back pretty fast, amazingly the Fiji station came back after
only one call.

73 de Keith
--
KC8TCQ

Know thyself. If you need
help, call the C.I.A.