CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 16.75
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 440 State/Prov = 53 Countries = 10 Total Score = 70,119
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
K3, 86 ft Tee vertical, lotsa radials, 2 reversible DXE
Beverages.
This was a low power, limited time effort, in protest
of the lousy scoring rules for this contest that make
almost anyone outside the Atlantic basin and Europe
uncompetitive.
I was pleasantly surprised at how much I could work with
100 watts. The big advantage of high power is RATE -- you
can work stations who can't hear as well, and you spend
less time waiting for optimum conditions to be able to work
them. I did a lot more S&P than with high power, but another
surprise was that I could also run. Even running high power,
I often have east coast guys with S8 signals who can't hear
CQing on top of me.
Conditions to NA were pretty good, and I could work about
85% of what I could hear. Best DX were 11 JA, UA0. Also
worked KV4FZ, VP9, 2-C6, and ZF. N1MM thinks there are 90
zone 5 Qs in the log. Missed only SD for WAS, and never
heard an SD station. W1OP is tough to work with 1.5kW, no
chance at all with 100 W. He must have bad noise or no RX
antenna. Thanks to W1XX -- not loud, but he heard my first
call!
73,
Jim K9YC
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