Basic Award

Mixed CW and SSB

CW

Worked All States (Logbook Of the World)
Updated: 4 September 2010

	Mix	SSB	CW	RTTY	DIG
BASIC AWARD	50	50	50	50	47
160 Meters	40	30	38	-	-
80 Meters	47	44	38	39	4
40 Meters	47	5	43	40	22
30 Meters	10	N/A	3	6	2
20 Meters	50	47	41	46	21
15 Meters	32	24	13	12	0
10 Meters	27	11	22	0	1
6 Meters	14	14	0	0	0
2 Meters	7	7	0	0	0
Triple Play #249		50	50	--->	50

DXCC (Logbook of the World)
Updated: 4 September 2010
Number of Countries Confirmed (LoTW Only)

Mixed	138
CW	111
Phone	120
RTTY	78
160 Meters	20
80 Meters	74
40 Meters	97
30 Meters	4
20 Meters	123
17 Meters	2
15 Meters	92
12 Meters	1
10 Meters	42
6 Meters	2
2 Meters	1

The Cushcraft X-9 is at 40 feet on my TX-438 tower.  Installed at the end of August 2008.
My amplifier is rarely needed anymore on 20 meters and I can't wait for 15m and 10m to begin opening up.
[Has nothing to do with the reason why I graduated from the AL-811H to the AL-1200 in early July 2009]

The King Cobra dipole has been at 70 feet (21.34m) in my back yard since 2004.  I'm sure there are many better dipoles
out there but this one has been my favorite since building it.  My Cobra consists of 12 AWG 3-Conductor ROMEX electrical
house wire (the wire is left within the sheath); 100 feet (30.48m) of 450 Ohm Ladder Line; a few pieces of 1/4" Plexiglas for center and
end insulators; 5/16" Dacron rope; and an MFJ-912 4:1 Balun (W9INN Box).  Each 70 feet long leg is linear loaded with 210 feet of wire.
The antenna requires a good roller inductor "tuner" for greatest flexibility especially for using an amplifier.
The Cobra dipole antenna was originally designed by Ray Cook, W4JOH and was published in 73 magazine.

12 October 2009:My old "King Cobra" was retired due to UV wear and breakage (wind storms).

2 Apr 2010: I have built and installed the "Anaconda" using 12 AWG exterior Romex.  Essentially it's a Cobra with 86' legs.

I worked V26AO and F5IN, respectively, using 200 watts with the Anaconda dipole on 160m in early April 2010.