ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA
Station: K5NA
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 34
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1416 Sections = 76 Countries = 26 Total Score = 313,038
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
This was the 33rd time I have entered the ARRL 160M Contest. I always go into
this contest with one simple goal, to make the top ten. Sometimes I do (2004),
and sometimes I don't (2005). I think I might have made it this year, but you
can never be sure.
Conditions seemed very unsettled and the QSB was as severe as I have ever heard
it. You might copy a callsign on the first try prefectly clear and then spend 5
minutes trying to get the exchange. Thanks for the many who stuck with me until
I copied them correctly.
I missed the sections of PR, NL, MB, and NT. This is the fewest section mults
that I have worked in quite a while for this contest. The European stations
were in and out and I missed a lot of them. The QSB, QRM, and being this far
west of the east coast means it just isn't that easy to work Europe. I managed
26 DX multipliers but only 11 of them were from Europe.
I had put up a new NW beverage for this contest and it worked very well
allowing me to work 39 JAs and a UA0. Most of these Asian stations were worked
just after sunrise here on both mornings.
Once again I had a terrific time in this, the 37th ARRL 160M Contest. I am
already thinking of ways to improve for the 38th.
73, Richard - K5NA
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