ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: OT6M
Operator(s): ON9CC
Station: OT6M
Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: JO20ws
Operating Time (hrs): 04:46
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 61 Sections = 27 Countries = 2 Total Score = 3,294
Club: Bavarian Contest Club
Comments:
I started the contest on friday evening. With about 25 stations in the log my
eyes fell shut at about 02:15 local hence I went to bed. After I got home from
a birthday party on saturday evening, I quickly checked the band and as I
couldn't hear a lot of stations (and those I did hear, were down in the noise),
I went to bed with the plan to get up at about 05:00 local. That trned out to be
a good decision as the conditions on sunday morning were better than saturday
evening. With the limited RX antenna I had I did notice somewhat of a sunrise
peak and heard NM and AZ.
Working Low Power can be frustrating as I did hear SD, TX, MO, NM and AZ but
they didn't hear me. Also I only had the dipole for TX, which is tuned for the
higher SSB part of the band. And as I still didn't have the opportunity to put
up the TX vertical and rx-beverages in the field, I only had the dipole for
TX/RX and K9AY for RX. Although I also called CQ for extensive times (around
1855-1860) only 2 or 3 stations came back to my CQ (suprisingly of of them was
a station in MN).
But all in all it was fun and I was able to work some 60 stations which
exceeded my target for using this setup (dipole, K9AY, Low Power).
Station:
TRX: IC7800
Antennas:
TRX: dipole 160m
RX: K9AY
C U in the Stew Perry!
73
Frank
ON9CC/OT6M
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