12/04/2005 | K0PG I love this contest. I love 160. But what do you do when you live on the third floor of a no antennas allowed building -- especially for 160? Friday night I cobbled together a short vertical with a base tuner and put it on my stealth balcony railing bird feeder support/mobile antenna mount. It wouldn't come anywhere near a reasonable SWR and I couldn't even work the strong ones.

I touched the center pin of the PL259 to the aluminum frame of our sliding glass door and presto! Signals! The tuner was able to get it to load over the whole band and conditions were good enough for me to work all call areas except W6. I wound up with 30 sections and was able to get into 75 different logs.

Conditions weren't as good Saturday night, so for those who heard me thanks for your patience!

I checked and the door frame also loads up on 75, the high end of 20 and 10 meters. See you next week on 10 with my new secret weapon!

73, Tim -- K0PG