2006 ARRL International DX Contest (Phone)
03/07/2006 |
YV5LIX
Hello my friends,
First of all allow me thank you all who call me during the contest and to those I was not able to pull out of the QRN/QRM, please accept my apologies.
Despites less than perfect propagation conditions on 75 meters this was a very nice and fun contest, for the band conditions the activity was high, conditions were very good to Europe from all night long and in the late night early morning to Oceania and Asia, to the point that I had log several JA and VK and Europeans stations, to bad they are not valid for QSO points, but I'm hopping for similar conditions for the WPX at the end of the month.
Having several antennas helped me very much to achieve a decent score, the antennas system is composed of 2 phased elevated 1/4 wave verticals + home brew phasing box, 1 sloper hanging from the main tower with the 40 and 20 elements monobanders acting as a capacitance had and a 1/2 wave dipole acting as a passive element (reflector) for the entire system, yes, because all the antennas are located in the same QTH, none of them acts as a separate antenna, they all work as a system.
The elevated 2 elements 1/4 wave vertical phased array worked wonderfully with a very low noise level and mated to the Yaesu FT-1000MP MARK-V + INRAD roofing filter and a full set of INRAD filters facilitated the working of low power small antennas stations despites remaining on 3791 +- .5 kc the entire contest, for TX only the sloper proved better to northern Canada.
Band noise was not high and other participating stations caused very little interference, or it was the roofing filter help?, and the DX window was usable to Arizona as early as 01:48 UTC, and the west coast, California, Washington and Oregon as early as 02:00, the east coast was open from 23:00 to 07:00 UTC, so I was able to stay on 18.2 hours and to work 11 stations the last day just before the end of the contest from 23:12 to 23:59 UTC.
Special thanks to George, W2VJN, and the entire INRAD team for a great line of products.
I'm expecting better propagation conditions for the 2007 editions and I hope to be able to participate them.
Hope to see you all next year and at the end of the month during the WPX.
If you like to see if you make it ok to my log you may visit my site at http://www.yv5lix.org.ve and visit the online log search section.
73/DX Jose M. Valdes R. (Joe) YV5LIX
eQSL.cc Advisory Board Member
QSL manager EA7FTR
SYSOP YV5LIX DX Cluster
telnet://yv5lix.org.ve:7300
http://www.yv5lix.org.ve
The site has an online log search.
-- YV5LIX
First of all allow me thank you all who call me during the contest and to those I was not able to pull out of the QRN/QRM, please accept my apologies.
Despites less than perfect propagation conditions on 75 meters this was a very nice and fun contest, for the band conditions the activity was high, conditions were very good to Europe from all night long and in the late night early morning to Oceania and Asia, to the point that I had log several JA and VK and Europeans stations, to bad they are not valid for QSO points, but I'm hopping for similar conditions for the WPX at the end of the month.
Having several antennas helped me very much to achieve a decent score, the antennas system is composed of 2 phased elevated 1/4 wave verticals + home brew phasing box, 1 sloper hanging from the main tower with the 40 and 20 elements monobanders acting as a capacitance had and a 1/2 wave dipole acting as a passive element (reflector) for the entire system, yes, because all the antennas are located in the same QTH, none of them acts as a separate antenna, they all work as a system.
The elevated 2 elements 1/4 wave vertical phased array worked wonderfully with a very low noise level and mated to the Yaesu FT-1000MP MARK-V + INRAD roofing filter and a full set of INRAD filters facilitated the working of low power small antennas stations despites remaining on 3791 +- .5 kc the entire contest, for TX only the sloper proved better to northern Canada.
Band noise was not high and other participating stations caused very little interference, or it was the roofing filter help?, and the DX window was usable to Arizona as early as 01:48 UTC, and the west coast, California, Washington and Oregon as early as 02:00, the east coast was open from 23:00 to 07:00 UTC, so I was able to stay on 18.2 hours and to work 11 stations the last day just before the end of the contest from 23:12 to 23:59 UTC.
Special thanks to George, W2VJN, and the entire INRAD team for a great line of products.
I'm expecting better propagation conditions for the 2007 editions and I hope to be able to participate them.
Hope to see you all next year and at the end of the month during the WPX.
If you like to see if you make it ok to my log you may visit my site at http://www.yv5lix.org.ve and visit the online log search section.
73/DX Jose M. Valdes R. (Joe) YV5LIX
eQSL.cc Advisory Board Member
QSL manager EA7FTR
SYSOP YV5LIX DX Cluster
telnet://yv5lix.org.ve:7300
http://www.yv5lix.org.ve
The site has an online log search.
-- YV5LIX
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