40 CQ Zones, 1000 Challenge points
Last Updated on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:59 PM Written by N1WQ Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:05 PM
Last weekend I’ve got confirmed 40 CQ Zones, and 1000 DXCC Challenge points. This is another very important milestone for me.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:38 PM Written by N1WQ Wednesday, August 31, 2011 7:30 PM
Last weekend I spent several hours trying to tune up my antenna for lower bands, Alpha-Delta DX-B quarter wave sloper. It is a quite narrow range antenna, and initially I did not have time to tune it for all bands, so I ended up with DX portion of 160M band (around 1,83MHz), and some rarely used part of 80M band, around 3,65MHz. On 40M the resonant frequency was around 8MHz with some insane VSWR inside amateur band. The 30M was not a problem at all though.
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