ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K8CC
Operator(s): K8CC + PACKET
Station: K8CC
Class: M/S HP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 664 Sections = 74 Countries = 8 Total Score = 111,356
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Missed: AB, AK, MB, NWT, PR & PR
DX: CT, FM, HI, P4, VP5, XE, ZD8, ZF
FT-1000D, Timewave 59+, AL-1200
140' Shunt Fed Tower, Shorty 160 Four-Square
Only a part time effort - after hosting and/or participating in four major
contests in the past six weeks, I needed a break but wanted to contribute to the
MRRC club score. Three hours on Friday night and five more on Saturday night
allowed some seat time to evaluate the shorty 160 receiving four-square, DSP
filters, etc. under contest conditions. I turned on packet primarily to get DX
spots as listening experiments, but got KH6ND and VO1MP as mults in my last hour
on the air to help the score.
When the rate is good, this contest is a blast. It struck me that its a lot
like SS (sections as mults, work everyone once, work the domestic regulars) but
with a shorter exchange. My three hours on Friday night were 120, 110, and 96,
but even with 600+ QSOs in the log I was still doing one per minute or better.
I've watched W8MJ do 160 contests from here long enough to know that it gets dry
the longer you're in the chair, but for eight hours it was a lot of fun.
Condx did not seem all that great for paths on northern headings. The *only* EU
I heard was CT1ILT, who I worked easily - nil from RN6BN, SP2FAX, etc. I heard
from the 3830 reflector that I was called by G4BUO without success, so I guess I
was an alligator. Not many countries worked, but if you look at it I only
missed Asia for a one weekend 160M WAC!
I also did not think condx were that great out to the West Coast. I had almost
no W6/W7 mults the first night; caught all of them except SF the second night
but most were hard to hear. Very FB signals from N6RO's four-square and
W6TRW.
It seemed like every third QSO was MN. I assume it was the MWA who was
responsible for that turnout. The top five for QSOs/section were:
MN 38
MI 37
IL 36
OH 36
EPA 31
And now for something completely different, onward to 28 MHz!
73,
Dave/K8CC
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