CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: KD4D
Operator(s): KD4D
Station: N3HBX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1093 State/Prov = 57 Countries = 49 Total Score = 420,184
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Great Fun! Thanks again to John Evans for letting me use the "farm" again. He
has installed a new "HiZ" vertical 4-element array - this helped a LOT with the
snow static and various types of band noise.
When I arrived, the 3-element K3LR vertical wire array wouldn't accept 500
watts without having the SWR jump up and, sometimes, "stick". What to do? I
decided to try LOW POWER. This was a first for me in the contest. I had no
idea what to expect.
What did I learn from this? As I've read before, "Attitude is everything".
This didn't change my operating technique a lot.
1) I was able to run - even a rather productive European run for over two
hours Saturday night! :-)
2) I did get pushed around the band a bit more.
3) I could work MOST of what I could hear. I did not have much luck calling
Europeans on our sunset - many CQ'd in my face.
4) I could bust most of the pileups. I had to work at it though - listening
to see what the DX station was responding to, varying speed and frequency,
etc.. Running high power, I have to do less of this. Breaking the pileup on
3V8BB Saturday (couldn't get through Friday) was a highlight of the contest for
me.
5) Don't work the Friday before the contest starts. I knew this one, but...
:-) I fell asleep after our sunrise Saturday for about 20 minutes.
The band was very good Saturday before European sunrise. I worked KH6 but no
other DX west - no ZL/VK, JA, KL7, etc.. Zero Asia QSO's!
Rates and multiplier information follow. Thanks for the QSO's!
73,
Mark, KD4D
1/25/2013 179
22 87
23 92
1/26/2013 587
0 84
1 30
2 42
3 63
4 42
5 31
6 41
7 51
8 45
9 25
10 30
11 27
12 19
13 2
21 7
22 28
23 20
1/27/2013 327
0 29
1 34
2 19
3 24
4 43
5 44
6 39
7 19
8 15
9 8
10 17
11 18
12 18
Grand Total 1093
Continent Breakdown
AF 2
EU 186
NA 894
OC 4
SA 7
Grand Total 1093
Count by Country
K 832
VE 50
DL 47
G 19
OK 15
S5 10
UR 8
YU 7
F 7
I 7
EA 6
SP 6
HA 6
OM 5
LY 5
PA 5
9A 4
KH6 4
XE 3
HK 3
EI 3
CT 3
GW 3
SM 2
YO 2
UA 2
OZ 2
FM 2
ON 2
GM 2
V3 1
4O 1
LZ 1
OH 1
KP2 1
OH0 1
E7 1
HI 1
ES 1
HC 1
CE 1
6Y 1
LX 1
J7 1
CM 1
3V 1
YL 1
PJ2 1
PY 1
C6 1
EA9 1
Count by Section/Province
OH 69
VA 63
PA 61
NY 50
MD 39
FL 37
MA 34
IL 33
ON 33
NC 31
TN 30
MI 27
TX 24
CA 23
NJ 23
GA 22
AZ 20
NH 20
AL 17
MN 16
IN 16
WI 16
MO 13
WV 13
CT 13
IA 12
CO 11
KS 9
SC 9
NM 9
WA 8
RI 7
ME 7
QC 7
VT 6
DE 5
KY 5
AR 4
UT 4
NB 4
LA 4
NV 3
NE 3
OR 3
NS 2
OK 2
ID 2
AB 2
ND 2
DC 2
MS 2
SD 1
MT 1
WY 1
BC 1
PEI 1
Grand Total 882
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