{"id":1909,"date":"2021-02-02T22:16:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2022-06-10T21:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:32:28","slug":"cq160m-soa-hp-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ha3ln.hu\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"CQ160m \u2013 SOA HP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>The always missing 3rd hand…<\/p>\n

2021’s motto:
\n“I’d be really curious what the neighbors think of the most probably sick guy,
\npulling wires 100’s of meters long on the muddy land in the dark when damn
\ncold windy sleet patches his dress… Assuming their openness,
\nI will rather not ask… :-)”<\/p>\n

Rig:
\nFTDX-101D + PA
\n21m elevated T-vertical with 4x elevated radials on a 26m SpiderPole<\/p>\n

RX side with 2-wire reversible Beverages:
\n268m USA
\n268m JA\/SA
\n176m N\/AF
\n176m Carib\/OC<\/p>\n

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My fixed vertical installation was destroyed by wind last summer had to build
\nnot only the RX system but the temp transmitting antenna as well so like a
\nfield day setup. This year’s weather conditions varied on wide scope: from
\nnice sunny up to cold\/windy sleet which made it like a real extreme sport.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>On Sun morning. Still cannot imagine how it’s not been flashed over…
\n…but at least the rating is good, the snow did not melt due to heat.<\/p>\n

T-vert was completed on Thurs. afternoon with great match exactly on 1830KHz,
\nverified by mini VNA. When I finished all the Bevs on Fri evening wanted to
\nmake the final check making sure everything is ready for the rock&roll.
\nThe snowy rain started to become really severe decided not to risk the laptop
\nand the MFJ-259B was used. Seeing the out of band impedance result on the
\nscreen I could not believe my eyes and my heart started to develop an “attack”.
\nTried to use lamps to find out more but it seemed the afternoon wind took down
\none of the top capacitance wire. As it was pitch black by then it was hopeless
\nto check the exact root cause.
\nAfter 2 long days of tiring preparation I started to get used to the fact that
\ndespite of the big prep efforts my contest is over before it might have started
\nWas so disappointed, at least wanted to test the Beverages if I erected them
\nand see how the new Bev-box works, how they perform. “Sadly” all was great
\nwith excellent front-to-back and directivity patterns.<\/p>\n

@21:32 accidentally the F1 button was pushed and surprisingly
\nenough the TRX SWR meter did not even move… Made a verification double check
\nwith the VNA and realized that due to some new unknown coupling, the vertical
\nhas fairly hairy sweep which fooled the MFJ giving some odd result.
\n@21:34 with big rush I started to setup the station
\n@22:06 could log the first station.<\/p>\n

…what an emotional rollercoaster.<\/p>\n

One other petit malheur over the weekend that the USA Bev’s 2-wires were
\ntwisted at half way which was not visible at the daytime inspection but was
\nenough to make it really noisy. Unfortunately even the Carib Bev heard better
\nto US than this dedicated one. Was really painful that this was only
\ndiscovered when I took the antenna down on Mon.<\/p>\n

The propagation was interesting. Sat morning the bandmap was full of USA but
\ncould barely hear the big ones. Sun morning was much better with couple of
\nreally great callers from CA\/AZ\/NM. The DX side was challenging due to the
\nendless caller flow even when the DX was transmitting. At the end there was a
\nsurprising JA caller stream.<\/p>\n

I recon still have lot to learn about VC-tune but I love this feature.
\nMade lots of mults audible out from very deep noise.<\/p>\n

Despite all of this above and having needed at least a week for physical
\nrecovery this again was a good weekend. Would start it over again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Thanks a lot for the calls and repetitions.<\/p>\n

CU in ARRL-DX CW on 80m only.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Beverage field panarama<\/p>\n

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