I have recently took apart my phased 40 meter verticals and made into two mono band verticals one for 75 meters and the other for 40 meters.  My 40 meter vertical plays fine business on both 40 meters and 15 meters without the need of a tuner.

On 75 meters its always difficult to keep a 66 foot vertical up in the air.  I actually attempted to raise this up myself and bent some of my aluminum.  So get the help you need when raising something this tall.  Once my son was there to help me, I raised it at the tilt base and he kept the wet noodle from bending the antenna came up quite easily.  All three points were already guyed so it was much easier to handle with two people.

At the moment my vertical is 60 feet tall, I have it guyed in two places and 4 points.  It’s guyed at 25 feet and 46 feet at the moment.  This is still work in progress for me, I want to make it around 66 feet which I will add aluminum to it or possibly a stinger on top.

At the moment I have a coil at the base to bring it into resonance.

My SWR without a tuner is as follows:

3.990 —-2.8:1

3.890—-1.7:1

3.790—1.2:1

3.690—1.8:1

3.590…3.0:1

I need to work a contest or two and see how it plays.   I have worked some DX within the window into Europe and Caribbean on first call and 59 reports running 100 watts.

The radial system under this vertical has 67 radials, 43 about 45 feet long and 22 about 30 feet long.

Will keep you posted on our progression and results.

73

Scott

Band    Jelly “> QSOs    Pts  WPX
7      50     119   44
14      50     143   33
21      50     147   48
28      50     136   42
Total     200     545  167
Score: 91,015

Flex 5000, AL80B, vertical and Inverted L antennas.

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
——————-
160:
80:
40:  160    64
20:
15:
10:
——————-
Total:  160    64  Total Score = 30,720

Comments:

Flex 5000a, Phased Verticals, Professional AL80B only had time to work some in evenings so
just stay on 40 meters.

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 355  State/Prov Professional = 54  Countries = 10  Total Score = 53,696

Club: DELARA Contest Team

This may be my first time working this CW contest.  Most of the time I am up the
band but 160 meters is a fun band on any mode.  I have a very high noise level,
I worked everyone that I heard.  Did all S&P at a slow pace but enjoyed it.
Flex 5000, Inverted L running 100 watts.

North American QSO Party, SSB – January

Call: KQ8RP
Operator(s): KQ8RP
Station: KQ8RP

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
——————-
160:   18    12
80:  139    38
40:  263    42
20:   13     8
15:    2     2
10:
——————-
Total:  435   102  Total Score = 44,370

Club: DELARA Contest Team

Team: DELARA Contest Team

Comments:

Flex 5K using Phased Verticals 40m and Inverted Vee 80m

I recently joined Delaware Amateur Radio Club so it was nice to participate as a team in this contest.

I worked all on SSB and my score shows it.  Next year we are going to have to see if we can add some CW contacts into the mix.

CALLSIGN: KQ8RP
ARRL-SECTION: OHIO
CONTEST: State QSO Party – OH
CATEGORY: Tadalis SX SINGLE-OP ALL LOW MIXED
CLUB-NAME: Delaware Amateur Radio Association
CLAIMED-SCORE: 46,920
NAME: Scott Gordon

Summary:
Band  PH QSOs  Pts  Mults
————————
80:    216
40:    192
20:
15:
10:
————————
Total:  408    115  Total Score = 46,920

Rig: Flex 5000a

Logging Software: N3FJP

Antennas:  40 Meter Phased Verticals & 3/8 Wave 160m Inverted L with tuner at the base.

73′s

Scott

could work them with 100 watts.

Band was not open all the time but when we heard some activity we tried to make good use of it.  We are looking forward in better  times on 10 meters here in the future.

CONTEST: ARRL-10
CALLSIGN: KQ8RP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW MIXED
CLAIMED-SCORE:  Silagra 12320
OPERATORS: KQ8RP
CLUB: DELARA Contest Team

121 QSO’s
40 mults
Score 12,320

Rig: Flex 5000a

Logging:  N3FJP

I downloaded N1MM logger earlier in the week and got everything hooked up to the Flex 5K. The logger worked fine and I liked how it works and the information it shows you during the contest. I still don’t have my Flex being able to send cw from the program.

It keys the rig but no output. During this contest I used my Flex auto keyer which Professional works great.

Antennas used was a 160m inverted L, Phased verticals on 40 meters and a 80m Inverted Vee fed with 450 ladder line.

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
——————-
160: 23 16
80: 46 27
40: 43 26
20: 18 8
15: 14 7
10:
——————-
Total: 144 84 Total Score = 12,096

Club: DELARA Contest Team

Contest was a fun one to work and I hope next time around we can put more time into it.