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2011 WPX CW a Bust!

By WF7T on 28 May 11

I was soar­ing with excite­ment after spend­ing time at Con­test Uni­ver­sity and Day­ton Hamven­tion. I have since landed with a thud. Tweet

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Musings about my bi-​square on 40M

By WF7T on 20 February 11

Last year my one good strat­egy was to treat WPX as a domes­tic con­test. From this local it means hit­ting 40M/​80M pretty hard. That said, it is nice to pick up the 6-​pointers (DX QSOs, off-​continent) and EU on 40M is quite easy from my sta­tion. This year I decided to mod­ify my strat­egy to cap­i­tal­ize on […]

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Rambling post (written while listening to old Country music in a cold basement in Nashville)

By WF7T on 23 January 11

Been neglect­ing my weblog for too long! Some minor recon­fig­u­ra­tion occur­ring along with some addi­tional met­rics around con­test­ing planned here. To catch up, I have been quite enjoy­ing my IC-​7600, learn­ing more and appre­ci­at­ing it with each oper­at­ing ses­sion. I am not quite setup for SO2R, but I have added some I.C.E 419B band­pass fil­ters along with the YCCC SO2R+ con­troller. I have […]

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G5RV vs. Ground Plane on 80M: G5RV by 5dB!

G5RV vs. Ground Plane on 80M: G5RV by 5dB!

By WF7T on 7 March 10

Excited by the pos­si­bil­ity of adding to my DX worked totals on 80M dur­ing the ARRL DX CW con­test a few week-​ends ago, I hur­riedly installed a new 80M ground plane (GP) antenna. Like the year before, I intended a single-​band effort and the new GP was going to be my secret weapon. Tweet

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Paths to Everywhere!

Paths to Everywhere!

By WF7T on 6 March 10

I have been play­ing with HFTA soft­ware from the ARRL Antenna Book to deter­mine the typ­i­cal take-​off angles needed to com­mu­ni­cate to DX locales. First step was to develop my ele­va­tion pro­file, which I did based upon the instruc­tions included using a pro­gram named Micro­DEM. While not the most intu­itive thing in the world, I did man­age to […]

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