CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: N7ON
Operator(s): N7ON
Station: N7ON
Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: Nevada
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 262 State/Prov = 52 Countries = 7 Total Score = 38,350
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Condo station:
Rig: K2/100
TX antenna: inverted-L, vertical run 30'
RX antenna: indoor coax loop
What fun, and what a discovery -- coax receive loops work! Everything I could
hear with the inverted-L I could hear with the loop, plus more. Whether it was
JT1CO (heard, not worked), EU, AF, SA, JA's, or close-in W6's, the loop
performed superbly. Furthermore, intermittent line noise no longer kept me
from working weak stations during runs. Receiving via the quiet loop was much
more pleasant and easy on the ears than listening on the inverted-L.
For my fellow condo communicators: no room for superior receive antennas
(Beverages, K9AY's, flags, etc.)? Try a loop, even indoors if necessary.
Another contest highlight was spending time with a non-contester, W6JYT, from
just up the street. He helped me erect the inverted-L Saturday night, and
after watching me make some QSO's and marveling at the performance of the
receive loop, we went back to his place to scout out Topband possibilities in
his backyard. Time missed in the contest was made up by his technical
knowledge -- he's already solved my 40m RFI problem and improved my 160/80m
feedpoints.
DX multipliers: I like finding my own mults in contests, but once Europeans
started coming through Friday night packet was turned on. WAC was completed
with a CU8A QSO, but I missed the other Europeans. Most frustrating was
calling a lonely French station without success. More radials and a higher
inverted-L will get me there.
W/VE mults: missed RI and a weekend WAS, and never heard DC. Worked an S & P
ND station by jumping up to a clear spot and briefly CQing after hearing him
work a station. He found me within a minute. Never heard him again. It was
nice working several VE2's, and was every Topband op in VE6-land active? Lots
of AB QSO's in the log.
Thanks for the QSO's, and nice hearing so many familiar callsigns.
73,
John, N7ON
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