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2026 SSB

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WB8YHDASSISTED LOWJust a few contacts to help some friends out. Surprised I worked as many as I did. Running low power and antenna is 250+ ft of wire on my backyard wood fence, 6 ft off the ground! Not bad. Thanks to all. 73 Frank
WB9BWPSINGLE-OP LOWAntenna is inverted-L up 33 ft horizontal 96 ft
WB9NOOSINGLE-OP LOWAntenna is inverted "L", up 40 ft, over 60 ft
WB9RCESINGLE-OP LOWHustler 6BTV Vertical Modified with 17 ft wire attached above the 80 meter trap sloping horizontally.
WC4YSINGLE-OP LOW230' EFHW inverted V at 50'
WD8DSBSINGLE-OP LOWGot on during short spurts in search and pounce mode to promote 160 meter activity. 160 meters CW is by far my favorite band and mode but I do occasionally connect my mic to my 46 year old Kenwood TS-180s to operate the CQ160 SSB contest to get m
WG5FSINGLE-OP QRP160 Meter Off Center Fed 1/2 wave dipole. Aprox 35 feet elevation
WO3XSINGLE-OP LOWI was able to transmit over a wider frequency range than I had anticipated. The antenna is a 30 feet tall tower and 10 feet mast with a #10 AWG insulated shunt wire connected to the tower at 20 feet up from the bottom by an aluminum angle 1 inch by 1 inch, long enough to be bolted to the tower and have the shunt wire 15
WO9GSINGLE-OP LOWCobra style folded dipole at 40-45' up fed with 450 ohm ladder line.
WY1HSINGLE-OP LOWEFHW antena 17-20 feet above ground
XE1RCSMULTI-OPQRM and Beverages switch failure were a challenge during contest contest
YB2TDPASSISTED LOWsemoga sukses
YB2TROSINGLE-OP LOWWhen the propagation contest is not good. The antenna I use is long wire
YC0ARYSINGLE-OP LOWAntenna used: simple wired antenna hooked at 2 telephone pole. Hi there.. good contest
YC3GOQSINGLE-OP LOWMy antenna is long wire.
YE3DFBSINGLE-OP HIGHORARI LOKAL KEDIRI
YO2LIMSINGLE-OP LOWNice contest
YO3AKSINGLE-OP HIGHbad propagation
YO4NTASSISTED LOWDipole
YT7ZSSINGLE-OP LOWInverted V, ground plane antenna with radials. The highest point of antenna is 12m.
YV6BXNSINGLE-OP LOWpoor condx for my location tnx to all for their patience because I do miracles with my antena at low heigth 40feet an old DXA TWIN SLOPER and 100w hope better luck next year

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