ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2020
Call: W3DQ
Operator(s): W3DQ
Station: W3DQ
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Washington, DC (MDC)
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 502 Sections = 63 Countries = 3 Total Score = 67,254
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
What a surprise this was! This is my third time in this contest and my best
score yet.
With my inverted-L's support gone (the 75 ft dead Pine came down two weeks ago),
I hadn't expected to have an antenna to use. Fortunately, Tim (N3QE) came to the
rescue mid-week and together (mostly his work)the remnants of the "-L"
became a "Scoliosis -L"! Somehow it managed to work, although it's
more of a cloud burner than anything else. Reports from the RBN were, well...
certainly nothing like its predecessor.
I started late on Friday, which was as mistake, as my first two hours (all
S&P) were excellent. The band was very quiet, but not having a receive
antenna was definitely limiting. I didn't work much beyond the mid-west.
I started earlier on Saturday, finding the band very noisy and not quite as
active. I tried running (thanks to N3QE, NS3T and W2CDO for pushing me)and had a
couple of good runs, although none as productive as my S&Ping the night
before. I don't think I embarrassed myself too much.
I heard folks calling Europeans, but I only heard C3, ZS, C6, an NP2. The west
coast was almost as elusive.
My goal was to better last year's 299 Q's and 65 sections in 6.5 hours. I bested
that, although the lack of mults was the difference. More BIC than I've done in
quite a while.
IT was a lot of fun... a needed tonic in these pandemic times.
73,
Eric W3DQ
Washington, DC (MDC)
K3, ACOM 1000, sort-of-inverted -L
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