CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB
Call: W5PR
Operator(s): W5PR
Station: W5PR
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 27
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 788 State/Prov = 53 Countries = 31 Total Score = 167,076
Club: Texas DX Society
Comments:
I got everything working before the contest, but I have some noise source that
kept the meter over S-9 all the time on the vertical transmit antenna. Since I
am on a small piece of property, it was transferred to the beverages. The
northeast beverage was the least affected luckily, so I heard about 25 strong
Europeans. I was surprised the Europeans were so easy to copy and the
stateside guys were, many times, much weaker. I never was able to copy any
station on the vertical all weekend. The SE Beverage was the noidest by far. I
think I transferred the noise from the power line close to the end of the SE
Beverage to the vertical where the Beverage passes close to the end of one of
the elevated radials. Then the vertical reradiated the noise.
It kind of reminded me of the first year I made a huge ground plane for 160 by
converting the 160 inverted V to radials and flying a plastic helium balloon
shaped like a wing to hold up the vertical portion of the antenna. I attached
the balloon about 3 feet above the top of the vertical and the static charging
was huge and made a terrible noise on receive. What an alligator I was!
The weekend before during ARRL CW, I worked 29 Europeans on the vertical. I
noticed the noise then, but it went away before the contest.
By the way, I found that power tool battery chargers left plugged in with no
battery inserted can be a significant source of noise that sounds like an
electric fence charger.
NA 757 757 96.1
SA 2 2 0.3
EU 25 25 3.2
AF 2 2 0.3
OC 2 2 0.3
C6 2 2
CN 1 1
CT 1 1
CU 1 1
D4 1 1
DL 6 6
E7 1 1
EA 1 1
EI 1 1
FG 1 1
G 1 1
GW 1 1
HA 1 1
HB 2 2
HC 1 1
HI 1 1
I 5 5
J7 1 1
K 702 702
KH6 2 2
KL 1 1
KP2 1 1
KP4 2 2
OZ 1 1
PJ2 1 1
S5 1 1
SV 1 1
TI 2 2
UA2 1 1
V3 3 3
VE 30 30
XE 10 10
ZF 1 1
QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band
Hour 160 Total Cumm OffTime
D1-2200Z 15/6 15/6 15/6
D1-2300Z 19/5 19/5 34/11
D2-0000Z 39/13 39/13 73/24
D2-0100Z 32/6 32/6 105/30
D2-0200Z 35/7 35/7 140/37
D2-0300Z 62/8 62/8 202/45
D2-0400Z 44/5 44/5 246/50
D2-0500Z 43/7 43/7 289/57
D2-0600Z 64/11 64/11 353/68
D2-0700Z 43/6 43/6 396/74
D2-0800Z 25/3 25/3 421/77
D2-0900Z 24/1 24/1 445/78
D2-1000Z 20/0 20/0 465/78
D2-1100Z 29/0 29/0 494/78
D2-1200Z 25/0 25/0 519/78 5
D2-1300Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1400Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1500Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1600Z --+-- 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1700Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1800Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-1900Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-2000Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-2100Z - 0/0 519/78 60
D2-2200Z 1/0 1/0 520/78 38
D2-2300Z 8/0 8/0 528/78 31
D3-0000Z 23/1 23/1 551/79
D3-0100Z 24/1 24/1 575/80
D3-0200Z 40/1 40/1 615/81
D3-0300Z 38/1 38/1 653/82
D3-0400Z 32/0 32/0 685/82
D3-0500Z 31/1 31/1 716/83
D3-0600Z 15/0 15/0 731/83
D3-0700Z 20/1 20/1 751/84 1
D3-0800Z --+-- 0/0 751/84 60
D3-0900Z - 0/0 751/84 60
D3-1000Z 17/0 17/0 768/84 8
D3-1100Z 11/0 11/0 779/84
D3-1200Z 8/0 8/0 787/84
D3-1300Z 1/0 1/0 788/84
Total: 788/84
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