CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: G3LET
Operator(s): G3LET
Station: G3LET
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Pease Pottage
Operating Time (hrs): 29.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1234 State/Prov = 42 Countries = 75 Total Score = 835,146
Club: Horsham Amateur Radio Club
Comments:
Rig: K3 + amp - 400W
Antenna: Sloping wire 380 ft from 150 ft sequoia tree, fed with manual tuner
against a couple of radials.
Logger: Paper and pencil (SD will be used as the post-logger to create the
entry file)
Wonderful conditions on the second morning, with all of the west coast of the
US and Canada wide open to Europe for several hours. The rest was a bit
variable.
In an effort to fill in some of the poor directions from the antenna, I'd
recently extended the original 250ft by an extra quarter wave. Although this
may have helped a bit with Asia and Africa, being my first bash at this event I
hadn't realised the importance of giving priority to NA. The new arrangement
didn't have the same edge in that department at all, or to JA.
Spent what seemed like hours missing out on CE1/K7CA (easy in the SP with the
original wire) and only managed one JA. Several other mults with good signals
got away, including VQ9, YV, P4, UK, several more West Coast states and most of
Western Canada. Anyway, the weekend was most enjoyable - many thanks for all
the QSOs!
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