Xiegu x6100, NJQRP Annual Skeeter Hunt - QRP Field of Dreams

Its the 14th annual New Jersey QRP (NJQRP) Skeeter Hunt. This is my 3rd time participating and as always, it's a fun event. The Skeeter Hunt is an annual (4) hour sprint of both calling CQ and/or hunting.. I only use the SSB mode but there are many more CW operators who participate. SSB is allowed 10w max power and CW is 5w. I cold called (no spotting) CQ for the entire (4) hours using the allowed 10w SSB power and made 105 QSOs.

My antenna was a home brew inverted V dipole (or some call it a doublet) fed with 450 ohm window (ladder) line. It worked very well on top of my 40ft Spider Beam mast. Two weeks ago when I performed a test run, it was tuned ready to go. But at the last minute I decided to cut, strip back and re-solder the (23ft) wire legs to the window line feed point to assure connection was in good condition.

Thankfully I tested the SWR with the rig expert before I started the event. I didn't expect there to be that much movement in the dip, but there was. Luckily I was prepared with my home made window line extensions to extend the feed line and bring the dip back to the band.

I used my Xiegu x6100 this year and it did a wonderful job. I brought along the ic705, FX4CR and the JPC-12 antenna as backups just incase.

00:00 Intro
01:12 Set up the Antenna
02:02 Drone fly over
02:38 Overview of the antenna and station set up
04:14 Using the Rig Expert to check the tuning
06:00 Cornfield Corner Salute to the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt
06:21 The Cheering Squad (not much help, LOL)
06:53 My audio heard on the Utah SDR
07:02 A few QSO Samples
08:02 "They will Come" Walk About
09:17 Is this Heaven
09:58 The QSO Map and Log scroll
11:07 Outro