CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: W7IV
Operator(s): W7IV
Station: W7IV
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 507 State/Prov = 50 Countries = 16 Total Score = 116,886
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Of all the bands in all the Amateur Spectrum, 160 should not have been the
choice for my first real CW contest effort. Usually I just cherry-pick needed
entities or hand out some macro-enabled Q's, but after S&P'ing my way
through everyone I could hear in Friday nite I figured that I was going to have
to call CQ if I was going to get anywhere. It was a lot of work and I
appreciate everyone putting up with my crappy CW.
Just a couple weeks ago I had a local group (and Tom) help put up the new N6BT
160m vertical. It was a monster and took 5 people to get it up. 3.5 inch tube
for the bottom 20' it's built like a brick outhouse. Combined with diversity
receive with a Pixel loop, I think I did pretty well from the left coast. I
just have to gird my loins for the LCR...
160 is the outlier for 9 band DXCC and I have been trying hard since I got the
antenna. Best DX this weekend was EA8 and CS2F. Got the XW, HL, and a slew of
JA's (which were very welcome points.)
Thanks again for everyone's patience and I hope to come back next time a little
better prepared.
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