{"id":229,"date":"2013-12-08T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pa3hcm.utreg.net\/?p=229"},"modified":"2021-01-18T20:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:09:52","slug":"first-k-and-ve-at-160m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Is our 80\/160m HEDZ suitable to work Americans at 160m?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Adrian PA0RDA and his Drake TR-7<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend was the yearly ARRL 160m contest<\/a>. Adrian PA0RDA and I were still a bit in doubt about our HEDZ antenna for 80 and 160m: is it suitable to work American and Canadian stations at 160m? So far we never heard any station from that area on that band, so Adrian decided to bring his Drake TR-7 for the weekend and try to work these countries during the 160m contest, probably the best opportunity for this test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It took quite some patience, since the TR-7 was not really good in handling all the strong signals from nearby stations, Europe is really loud on this antenna. But eventually Adrian worked two stations: VY2ZM and N2KW. These are “big guns” (e.g. VY2ZM uses 6 phased verticals!), so its merely thanks to their setup and skills, but the contact was successfull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to the original question: is the HEDZ suitable for US-EU contacts? The answer is “NO”. However, for Europe and surrounding countries the antenna works very nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Adrian was able to work just 2 stations, he still submitted his log to the contest manager, so he’ll be listed in the single-operator low-power class. Claimed score: 4 points… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend was the yearly ARRL 160m contest. Adrian PA0RDA and I were still a bit in doubt about our HEDZ antenna for 80 and 160m: is it suitable to work American and Canadian stations at 160m? So far we never heard any station from that area on that band, so Adrian decided to bring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23],"tags":[38,34,45,28,52],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-arrl160m","tag-160m","tag-antenna","tag-contest-2","tag-cw","tag-result"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pa3hcm.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}