I managed 287 qso's, 54 sections and two DX, 3 if you count VE as DX. I
have two ZF'2 worked and VP5. Have heard no other.
Noise has been extremely LOW here. Of course this is the first time on 160
from this QTH.
Antenna is just a inverted L, with one counterpoise wire. Seems to work
well.
See you all tonight.
Dan/W4NTI Alabama
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Condon <mcondon@attglobal.net>
To: SECC <secc@contesting.com>
Date: Saturday, December 08, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: [SECC] The half time report
>At the 160m CW halftime break from NE4S, 228 q's, 55 mults, 1 country for
>25,002.
>I have a decent chance of reaching the 40K goal. Not a biggie, but all
>efforts add to the pot.
>Observations:
>A lot of junk noise here, only antenna is the 70' wire vertical up the side
>of the tree.
>Visitors took up 6pm to 10pm at startup.
>
>I use 250 Hz filter when the crowd gets bad, or someone is very strong and
>near.
>Backing off the RF gain, dropping the AGC full off and careful use of
>attenuation helps in situations.
>
>S and P until few new mults were found, then pick a spot and run.
>Running from a smaller station may fall off after the "good ears" find you.
>Then a bit more of S/P.
>You also get stomped on a lot, so usually moving a bit is the better part
of
>valor.
>Unless someone just is being a "lid", then send pointed QSY messages. Hi
>I find I get "zero beat" jumped sometimes too, someone is zero beat on my
RX
>freq and wailing away.
>I know they know it, but such is the life.
>
>Only country other than VE is ZF, actually this year I do not hear near as
>much DX as last year.
>Probably more noise here. Last time I could hear them even if I could not
>work them.
>
>Second day goal is more running, hoping to hit 400 q's to reach the score
>goal while getting the easy multipliers filled in.
>Need a few multipliers from W1, W2, Most all W6s, a few W7s, and most of
the
>VEs
>I may miss the 4PM/1.850 date, I have a family comittement at 3PM.
>
>That's it at half time, now for the half time show... shopping.
>
>Mike, NE4S
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