The Kaw Valley ARC in Topeka, Kansas has been doing field day for many years. It has run hot and cold. With the sun spot cycle heading in to the dumpster, 40 and 80 and possibly 160 will be the money bands for operation. This year my son, NS0R and I, NJ8M, worked, planned, built antennas and our club bought a set of band pass filters for 20 15 and 10. These were the new DX Engineering ones. They used a Triplexer and associated filters for the tribander. 2 dipoles one for 80 and one for 40 were set up for the club phone stations. They ran 2 stations there. Their radios are Icom 7000s. Most of our phone ops are not used to non arm chair copy and had GREAT difficulty listening through the QRM.
This year we had a goal of 3000 qso's. bummer that we did not quite make it, 2701. Well there is always next year. The CW station that we operated was with one K3 and a K3S. Simple 6btv, 20 meter half square and 3 element 40 meter vertical array. With those antennas we were able to work 1600 cw Qs and about 200 ssb Qs. The K3/S performed well. No hitch or glitch. We had fun, now back to the drawing board for next years antennas. We are thinking about moxon for 20 meters and keeping the 40 meter array and then putting up a 53 ft vertical with a 9:1 unun to a remote latching relay tuner for 80 and etc instead of the 6btv. We have not wanted to get into the tower stuff but the phone guys, AKA, the rest of the club, put up the tower for ssb and made less then 300 Qs on 20, it is just a waste. We have found out that simpler antennas are best. I Was wondering if any one has much experience with a moxon beam antenna? Very 73, Morgan Bailey NJ8M ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
