Welcome to my page.
I got my novice licence in 1980 after more study and a lot of CW practice I got the full A(F) lisence in 1988.
The world opened and I started to experiment with antennas. It is a flat roof and 40 meters long it has lots of room to mess with all kind of wire contraptions.
But because of a renovation of the roof I had to tear down all which caused a hiatus that lasted until 2010.
So in 2010 I bought an Icom 7200 and made a new setup with dipoles for 80/40/30 and a 53M long Inverted L with a home brew tuner at the bottom as an all band solution.
After a couple years I bought an Icom 7300 changed the separate dipoles into a ladderline fed fan dipole for 160/80/40/30 Meter and a Diamond BB7V Vertical for 40-10 M bands.
It is advertised as 80-10, but it's too short for decent radiation on 80 M.
Both feed lines go to a remote coax switch and a MFJ remote tuner.
That vertical got me more active on the WARC bands.
A recent storm put the dipole section out of commission so I have to get back on the roof and repair the mess.
I mostly use CW because I can't differentiate between a politician and a barking dog on a good day let alone an overexcited DX-er on SSB in a pile up.

So, back to some 160 Meter History.
Just outside the city was the former location of the Clubstation PI4UTR situated in the 19th Century Fortress De Gagel.
The Fortress has more room for a decent 160 meter Vertical antenna and a bunch of radials.
From that location I participated in the CQ-WW 160 Meter contest in 1989 with an FT905 and Racal-17L and a specially fabricated 18 meter long top-loaded vertical.
The wire topload and the groudplane took a huge amount of 1.5mm^2 (16 Ga) copper wire and while the fortress was surrounded by water must have helped a bit too.
Using a 250Hz filter on the FT and the 100Hz Filter on the Racal did a great job copying the weaker signals.
That setup got me a 2nd place for PA and 89th place in the overall Single Operator HIgh Power section. (100 Watts).

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AWARDS

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