After cleaning the room, installing the new desk, replacing all equipment and then finding that I have Gremlins / Grounding problems, I chased them down and eliminated them.
I re-calibrated my listings for the tuner positions per band and, I noticed that I had a listing for 160 meters; I tuned close to the old settings and, touched them up from there and noted them as my new tuning spots.
Let me quickly tell you about my antenna; about 30' of Teflon coat#12 come out horizontally and is terminated with a dogbone insulator to my metal porch rail. The other leg is a piece of #15 coated magnet wire of random length (40' plus) that goes vertical up and across the roof of the room where the radio is located. This antenna is fed by a short piece of 300 ohm (flat) TV antenna wire. The antenna is tuned by the Dentron Super Tuner Plus.
I have used this antenna on 80 meters but never lower than that until this point; while thinking to myself, "You don't have enough length in that antenna to use it on 160 meters", I watched the waterfall and saw some activity in the JT9 portion of the band. I called the fellow but, his reply was "SRI No Decode". I put some more fire in the wire and adjusted the audio signal a tad and, he came right back, we confirmed our contact and 73'ed each other.
I'm sure that this is NVIS radiation but, it's my first contact on the 160 meter band with pieced-together antenna system.
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