The Dutch PACC Contest is already 2 weeks over now.
This time i wasn't contesting from my own home,but was in a Holidayhouse we are taking care of.
This house is more in the open field,as my own place is surrounded with alot of houses..so also alot of QRN/QRM as well on my radio.My 3elm Tribander at my home is just 5 1/2 meters above the ground...so you can imagine that it will get alot of signals that i don't want to hear.
Friday morning at 11:00 local time,hte guests that where in the house for a week holiday,went out.
That was for me the time to go there with my gear and setup all the antenna's i wanted to use.
My antenne's where:
HF6V vertical
GPA30 vertical
3elm Tribander (Swan...32 years old :) )
2x 10 meters Dipole as Inverted V
FD3 wire dipole
This was what i wanted to put there and use....but.....
The most i did use the HF6V vertical from Butternut.I made myself radials from 2mm steelwire.
made 10 of them,then my spool of 100 meter wire was gone,hi.But also had still some copper wires who i first used at home for trying the antenna out.So also this ones where connected.
The best thing with the HF6V is that you don't have to switch antenna's when you want to use another band.This was for me also the first time i really did try the antenna and i can say...i am very pleased to have it and able to use it !!
My 3elm Swan Tribander also worked ok....but.....we couldn't get it higher then 4 meters above the ground.I used an old Militair tower what you have to pull up with your hands and then it should click when the whole section is out.Because the 3elm was too heavy,we only managed to get one section out.Also i didn't want the small tower to get broken....
Another problem was,that when you are not at home....and you don't see the sun shining...to find the North.I thought i knew it...but sunday after the PACC contest i found out it was totally wrong.Good to have from now one a compas in my radio gear,hi.
I was around 90 degrees wrong.....found it out after i saw the TV Dish at the neightbours house.That looks almost to the South...little East of it, 19,2 degrees to the ASTRA Satellite.
I did work some nice stations during the PACC on it....but after i changed it,it worked much better.Because after the PACC i went into the CQ WW WPX RTTY contest a
gain.
Worked some nice DX with it in RTTY...
Here you can see my radio and computer setup for the PACC and CQ WW WPC Contest.
I used just one radio,but had the other standby for when my first gave problems.
Here you see two photo's of my antenna's.One of them you see the foot of the HF6V with the radials attached.On the other you see on the forground the Swan Tribander and left from it the GPA30.At the right the HF6V and more right in the back of the garden the 2x 10 meters inverted V.
More photo's can be found at: http://www.pd7bz.nl/PACC2011
More info about my PACC Score via SH5 : http://www.pd7bz.nl/PACC
My QSO's results where like in 2010...but this year i got more Multies.
We have to wait till June to see the results.
