ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: W1ECT
Operator(s): W1ECT
Station: W1ECT
Class: Single Op HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 9.0
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 542 Sections = 60 Countries = 14 Total Score = 84,656
Club:
Comments:
Friday: When I turned the rig on an hour before the contest I knew I was in for
a rough night. The weather had been very un-seasonably warm recently and we had
thunderstorms forecast for December! The QRN was fierce, a steady S8-9 and lots
of S9+ crashes. When the contest started I tried calling CQ but I could only
copy a few of the louder stations calling. I did a band scan and after about
an hour and a half I managed to pick up 83 QSOs in 33 sections. When I saw
some lightning in the distance I knew it was time to shut things down. After
disconnecting all the coax and control cables I pulled the AC cable that feeds
the rig/computer/etc. which brought the shack into darkness since only the
shack desk lamp was turned on. I got a bit of a surprise when I walked out of
the room and found the whole house was dark! Quite a coincidence, just as I
unplugged the shack I had lost power to the house (which wasn't restored until
4:00 AM).
Saturday: I was hoping to get above-average rates since I had worked so few
stations on Friday. I started a CQ loop in the late afternoon but only managed
the typical 30/hour. The noise level was very low as evening arrived, quite a
change of pace. I wasn't motivated to put in a lot of hours due to my low
totals from Friday so I shut things down after only nine hours. This meant I
didn't stay up late enough to work much out west, only LAX and WWA. I wasn't
hearing many European signals and they were quite weak, I only worked a dozen
or so.
Sunday: Watched footballâ?¦
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