12/08/2007 |
N3CO
I did fairly well Friday night and had a good time using my K2/100. We started getting sleet and ice early Saturday evening and sometime in the darkness my vertical stopped working. I woke up Sunday morning disgusted to find that it couldn't stand up to a layer of 3/8" ice and 30mph winds. I had to revert to my dipole and lost a lot of potentials Q's and mults. Even with the loss of the antenna I still was able to achieve a better score than last year. A lot of new stations on the air and good conditions. Hope to have the antenna back up for the Stew Perry later this month.
73, -- N3CO