[Moon] ARRL EME CONTEST 144 MHZ

[Marko Tsekov]

Hi All,

Few words regarding  the ARRL EME Contest:  As usually I saw  very good activity, much more than I really expected.
Almost non stop rain at my QTH, as result a little higher antenna  SWR, but it was not a problem. Had good opportunity 
to play with Winrad  and I got some more experience how to  use its  narrow band filters. For sure it helped a lot. Operating
 time was "some limited"  because it was not very easy to keep awake the whole night........ It was big fun to work some 
new stations.  No body from VK/ZL, Africa and South America............ Most of the stations in my log are European...only 
8 stations from USA. Managed to hear more stations that I worked. There is missed stations also, stations that called me,
it was not able to recognize   their call signs. Some of called stations "gave up" very quickly.

 Final result  is 56  reandom  CW contacts. Seems  my  home brew  4xKLM17LBX   antenna  made in 1987 
is still working.Despite of too many aluminum to aluminum  joints (clamped only)  at my open wire feeding, it still contacting,
good or bad........but it is time to be  retired and  relpaced one day.
73  Marko LZ2US
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