[LCC] 160, I tried, oh how I tried.

[Mark, K5ER]

Hi Marcel,
         Good story. Single folks probably couldn't appreciate it, but I 
have lawn mower, a wife who likes to mow, and have had feedline in the yard 
before, so I know what you went through. Take care and hope to catch you in 
the next one.

73,
Mark, K5ER

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>Good job Mark,
>
>I always try to best my own scores from one year to the next.  I have a 
>amusing story about the 160 contest last weekend.
>
>I tuned my loop for 160 and had 8oo Watts to play with.  Dad GUM, I 
>could'nt get many contacts to save my life.  I could hear them pretty 
>good, it just took everything I had to "just" make a contact.  I got 20 in 
>all. Sad sad,...  I noticed that my L & C was a little bit different on my 
>tuner for 160.  I thought, "Maybe a limb fell on my loop."  So, I just 
>gave up.  Thinking I have a crappy antenna system.  Dang, I usually do a 
>lot better.
>
>Sunday, I went out to search for the problem. I found it alright!  It 
>appears that my wife got tired of the ladder line banging against the 
>house.  She had wrapped it everywhere.  Around the tower leg and around 
>other coax and ground wires in order to get the banging to stop.  Needless 
>to say, my antenna was about 20 feet long and 3 feet off the ground. for 
>my 20 Qs.
>
>Oh well, there is always next year.
>
>73,
>Marcel