ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 16.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 400 Sections = 67 Countries = 4 Total Score = 57,865
Club: Orca DX and Contest Club
Comments:
So that's what Top Band is like with a little bit more power. As expected,
running the new AL-80B provided a personal best after so many low-power
entries.
But it didn't produce a best-ever multiplier total -- that remains at 75 with
my 2007 outing. This weekend's 400 Qs is 45 more than my 2007 high of 355. The
difference back then running 100W was a sunspot minimum (ballpark) and the same
Inverted-L over a 32-radial field on the ground. Alas, I got one season out of
those radials as they were bare aluminum and the soil here ate them into
oxidized fragments, quite literally, in months.
Still running the same wire over three raised radials connected to an FCP box.
The vertical wire is 70 feet, the remaining horizontal wire slopes down due
east to about 40 feet. The null due east was noticeable and must be
eliminated. Planning a spring project to make it a T-top vertical, hopefully
improving performance.
Only DX orked were ZF, C6 and UA9. I don't consider XE to be DX but was nice to
have among the multipliers.
The band opened up across the northeastern states for me on Sunday morning,
filling in all the New England mults that I had been missing. Thanks to
everyone for calling in, and for staying up so late into the wee hours.
-- Bud VA7ST
Year-over-year:
QSO Sec Score
2017 400 71 57,865 16.5 hr HP
2016 180 52 18,720 10.5 hr
2015 142 37 10,906 8 hr
2014 183 54 19,764 8 hr
2013 24 12 576 1 hr
2012 132 42 11,088 5 hrs
2010 134 38 10,184 5 hrs
2008 162 42 13,608 10 hrs
2007 355 75 54,150 12 hrs
2006 225 48 22,197
2005 323 62 40,052
2004 231 62 28,644
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