ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: AA1K
Operator(s): AA1K
Station: AA1K
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Delaware
Operating Time (hrs): 33.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1435 Sections = 80 Countries = 41 Total Score = 400,994
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
The new broadside/endfire transmit array (4 elements, 335 x 146 ft. rectangle)
is still under reconstruction after its initial use in the January contest. I
managed to twist some more radials together on Friday and repaired some storm
damage earlier in the week so it was operational again for this contest. It
seems clearly better toward Europe than the longstanding 4-el. inline parasitic
vertical array.
In fact it was often a better Rx antenna this weekend than the Beverages. More
work ahead on it before the January contest.
1176 W, 76 VE and 154 DX QSOs. Missed PR, MB and NT sections -- never even
heard.
Heard one weak JA4 briefly near sunrise Saturday but no other Pacific DX.
Rig: K3, Alpha 89. Beverage antennas for RX. Lots of antenna switches -- see
new photo under "switching" at www.aa1k.us.
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