Tuning the sloper
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.
Learn MoreDXCC RTTY 150 entities confirmed
Last Updated on Sunday, November 13, 2011 12:22 AM Written by N1WQ Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:53 PM
This week I got 150 DXCC countries confirmed in RTTY. I even got 152 at this very moment. KH2L confirmed 150th via LoTW.
Learn MoreDXCC CW 200 countries confirmed
Last Updated on Sunday, November 13, 2011 12:26 AM Written by N1WQ Saturday, November 13, 2010 10:02 PM
This week I got 200 DXCC countries confirmed in CW. Actually, even 201. YJ0HA confirmed 200th via LoTW, and ZL7J confirmed 201st with his paper card. I am not sure whether YJ0HA operation is already approved by DXCC Desk, so ZL7J became a welcome addition.
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