We have a winner....

The new Windom antenna I put together yesterday is awesome. Last night I tried it out and found out it really improves my signal--both outgoing and incoming.

I checked in with some friends on 80 meters last night. One of them, Murtada (9K2MU), suggested we try 160-meters and try out my new antenna. I met him on CW and he became my very first QSO on 160 (both for here and the states). It sure is nice to have the space to put up an extremely long wire!

The rest of the night was spent just cruising around the bands. I happened to stop and talk to a Swedish ham who suggested I try to pick up a "few" Europeans who might be on the frequency. That turn out to be about the biggest SSB pileup I've heard so far. I worked about 47 stations before heading off for bed.

Well, now that HF is up and running I think I'll concentrate on trying to get a signal into Baghdad on 2 meters. There's an Echolink RF link located there and it would be great to be able to contact the 440 machine back in Fayetteville. Let's see how big of a beam I can construct.

Hammin' it up!

Korey