KE7X has already started his trip to The Bahamas, but as of this morning, we still didn't know if we would be able to get to the villa! Tropical Depression Noel flooded the road to the villa, and you needed a boat to get to the house for the past 2 weeks. Finally, the water on the road is being pumped out so we should be able to get to Finiterre. For the past few days we had been frantically trying to find an alternative villa, but none that really met our needs.
For those of you thinking of going to Eleuthera, which I would highly recommend, we found a great little villa on the water which is an excellent location for verticals, and is probably the best radio location on the island for verticals with a great water path to Asia, NA, EU, AF, and SA. Check out http://www.bahamas-rental.com/ But it's a small but nice 1 bedroom villa, without a telephone. A true getaway trip!
CU on the bands Saturday night.
Kenny C6ATA
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2010 K3 AGC Tests
Place holder for AGC tests
2007 Location
Eleuthera Island, in the town of North Palmetto Point. The villa is http://www.finiterre.com/ For Google Earth fans, here are the coordinates: 25.167, -76.1581 (Villa is the white hexagon)
Operators & QSL Info
Antennas
Here is the current plan for the CONTEST antennas:
20m: 2 ele vertical array on the beach: in-phase broadside elements, and end-fire parasitic elements. This is an N6BV design. 20m dipole up 40' on the 45' hill, with an effective height of about 85' over the water.
40m: Same setup as 20m
160m: Likely a 2 ele parasitic vertical array pointed at EU. The driven element will be a 50' loaded vertical, and the reflector would be a wire inverted-L in the tree.
NON-Contest Bands:
80m: either a wire inverted-L or an inverted-V in a tree. 30m: sloper in a tree overlooking the ocean.
17m: load the 20m vertical array.
We generally like the low bands, so we don't expect to be on the higher bands. But you never know!
20m: 2 ele vertical array on the beach: in-phase broadside elements, and end-fire parasitic elements. This is an N6BV design. 20m dipole up 40' on the 45' hill, with an effective height of about 85' over the water.
40m: Same setup as 20m
160m: Likely a 2 ele parasitic vertical array pointed at EU. The driven element will be a 50' loaded vertical, and the reflector would be a wire inverted-L in the tree.
NON-Contest Bands:
80m: either a wire inverted-L or an inverted-V in a tree. 30m: sloper in a tree overlooking the ocean.
17m: load the 20m vertical array.
We generally like the low bands, so we don't expect to be on the higher bands. But you never know!
Which of the following bands do you need C6A on CW?
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1 comment:
Hi guys, could you post some pics of the antennas please ?
Good luck in the contest
73 de Maury
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