First of all, thanks to all who contacted or attempted to contact
these two stations, located 15 miles apart but in different states and
different CQ Zones. The locations are in Hidlago County, New Mexico and
Greenlee County, Arizona about 80 miles north of the Mexico border.
Robin and I thoroughly enjoyed this contest as we were running the
real time test of two comparably equipped stations with the exception of
the transmit antennas. Thanks to those who have already sent us comparison
reports of the two signals. And a reminder to others to do so if you made
notes or remember how our two signals compared.
Conditions were very poor the 1st night due to very heavy QRN. It
sounded just like the middle of summer. An apology to all the stations we
could not pull through the static crashes. The 2nd night was much better
with little QRN. Sunday morning the two 9M stations and BT1WW were S-9 on
the Beverages.
OBTW, the true difference in the two operations was that WA6CDR is
a much better CW Op than I am. Here are the results. Milt, N5IA
CQ 160 METER CONTEST -- 1999
Call: N7GP Country: United States, AZ, Zone 3
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator, High Power
QSO QSO PTS STATES & PROVINCES COUNTRIES SCORE
Totals 653 1923 54 28 = 157,686
STATION EQUIPMENT
FT-1000 MP + ALPHA 76, Horizontal TX antennas at 80 Meters above
ground level. Dipole oriented NE/SW and 3
half waves phased colinear oriented
NW/SE. 4, 2 WL Bevs.
Call: N5IA Country: United States, NM, Zone 4
Mode: CW Category: Single Operator, High Power
QSO QSO PTS STATES & PROVINCES COUNTRIES SCORE
Totals 582 1530 55 15 = 107,100
STATION EQUIPMENT
FT-1000 MP + ALPHA 91B, Vertical TX antenna; full sized 1/4 WL Ground
Plane
elevated 1/8 WL above ground level. 8, 1 WL
Bevs.
DX list for N7GP DX list for N5IA
8P 1 KP2 1 No big deal, but did include
9M2 1 OK 1 24 JA and ON & ZP which Robin
9M6 1 OM 2 did not work.
CM 1 OY 1
DL 3 OZ 1
EA 1 PA 2
F 2 S5 1 N5IA missed Maine for a clean
G 2 TY 1 sweep of states. Also no DC.
HB 1 V4 1
HL 1 VK 1 N7GP missed Mississippi for a
I 2 XE 2 clean sweep of states. + no DC.
JA 36 YU 1
KH6 3 ZF 2
KL 3 ZS 1
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