ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2020
Call: WA8Y
Operator(s): WA8Y
Station: WA8Y
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Midland, MI
Operating Time (hrs): 23:29
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1070 Sections = 87 Countries = 2 Total Score = 187,485
Club: Bay Area DXers
Comments:
Mark, N5OT sent me a care package; DXpedition Model II, receive Ant Switch with
Dual Pre-amp, 2 DXE BFS-1 transformers, and various adapters. The package
arrived Thursday night. I spent Friday, setting up a Beverage Over Ground
antenna, pointing North. I got everything wired into the shack by 5:18pm. I
used the Maestro with 2 Panafalls open. Slice A on top panafall and Slice B on
the the lower one. Slice A had Tx/Rx on my Double-L and Slice B RX was on the
BOG antenna. I put Slice A in both ears and Slice B (experimental BOG) in the
Right ear. I used Slice B to S&P a few times early Sunday when Running was
slow. I could not get N1MM+ to log Slice B frequency so I edited the QSO while
Running. Eventually I spotted a new stations, left my Slice A CQ frequency to
work him in Slice A. More than once I lost my Run Frequency ("if you're on
your feet you lose your seat").
I didn't hear any Europeans spotted and I never found two sections PAC and NT.
On Saturday I made Beverage On-the Ground, running East-West, pointing West. We
had Static crashes, and while my Flex 6600 does and amazing job blocking them, I
saw no static crashes on the B on-the-Ground (I only had one F-Connector to RCA
plug adapter and so use the new BOG antenna on Sat/Sunday. The 20dB Pre-amp
wasn't enough to make signals equal to my Double L but I added 8dB with the Flex
pre-amp. I still needed 20-30 dB to equal the signal strength of my Double L.
Anyway there was a lot of fun building my first 160m RX antennas. I will be
returning the care package to Mark soon, with much gratitude.
This was my 2nd ARRL 160m Contest and it won't be my last. I was a very fun
contest and I saw my highest rate to date in any contest (over 200/hour over a
short period of time).
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