ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K7KU
Operator(s): K0KR
Station: K7KU
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Wyoming
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1100 Sections = 77 Countries = 8 Total Score = 191,080
Club:
Comments:
I thank each of you who managed to get some 160m RF into the frozen tundra of
central WY (where the temp dropped to minus 18F during the contest). I made a
special effort to copy stations whose signals rose, however fleetingly, above
the primordial ooze of poor conditions. QSB was sometimes fast enough to
interrupt copy in the midst of a single CW character.
Poor conditions, did I say? Depended very much upon where one was, I suppose.
It was an especially tough event for W6/W7 this year. Anyone remember 2009,
when K7RAT/N6TR scored a remarkable 351K all the way from the west coast? No
W6/W7 score, I dare say, will come close this year. Didn't hear a peep from
EU, even with a 600-foot Beverage, bearing 32 degrees, that ordinarily hears EU
exceptionally well. As is so often true, it was a huge plus to be farther
south, farther east, or both, this year.
Special thanks go to N4ZR and W1WBB for states no. 49 and 50, respectively.
WAS on 160m in a single weekend? No big deal from some areas perhaps, but a
genuine thrill from W7. YAY!
There was a super-abundance of WY participation this year. I myself logged
K9DR, W6KGP, KO7X, N7NG, WY7FD, and WC7S, in that order. Congratulations,
gents, on a splendid turn out for the state.
Semi-serious effort, in that I took at least four hours off during the wee
hours of each of the two nights.
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