CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: KD2MX
Operator(s): KD2MX
Station: KD2MX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Oakland, NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 279 State/Prov = 46 Countries = 4 Total Score = 32,450
Club:
Comments:
I suffered an identity crisis about halfway through the contest. I started out
as a qrp entry. Last year was my first on top band and I could only run qrp
without lighting up our microwave oven. Back then every state was a new one
for me and I did ok.
This year I have a better antenna and can run my full 100 watts like a little,
big gun:), but I still wanted to see how I'd do with qrp. Friday evening was
very busy. Went to bed for a few hours. Checked out the action early am but I
didn't hear anything too exciting and went back to bed. Stuck with qrp all
Saturday and lost a few multipliers.
Conditions seemed better on Sunday morning. The band was open to the west
coast and I soon learned that I still can't work that far on 5 watts. I was
sytmied on multipliers, having already missed a couple "close" ones. I
still hadn't worked OR, WA or CA, and OR was booming in. I was just getting a
few dits into OR, but not enough to make it. So I took a deep breath and
turned the dial to 100w and became a low power entry.
Still it was not so easy but I added 10 multipliers (and 4 new states)
without too much problem. No CA though, worked a few OR and NV but didn't even
hear CA, which was strange.
I know I missed a couple of states early on. MS really hurt. Heard one MS and
he had quite a pileon and my qrp didn't cut it. I got some of the multipliers
back but I was down at least four.
Oh well, I beat my score from last year by a considerable amount and bettered
my qso total, just by my qrp contacts which satisified my starting goal. Quite
a few EU stations early Sunday evening, even managed to work one!
I hope everyone else enjoyed the weekend as much as I did.
73...Paul/kd2mx
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