ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 8.0
Remote Operation
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 557 Sections = 70 Countries = 6 Total Score = 86,260
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Lots of fun operating this one on and off over a weekend. I operated my station
in Ohio from my apartment in downtown Tokyo. The contest begins at 7AM my time
so it is a totally daytime event for me. If I wanted to put in the hours for a
full time operation, it would not have upset my sleeping schedule at all. But
with a dipole and 100 watts, my station is not competitive in a DX contest, so
I tried to put in a good effort and still have time for other weekend
activities.
The remote has been working pretty well, but around once a minute the
connection hiccups and there is a blank of half a second or so. When this
happens when someone is sending their call or exchange, I have to ask for a
repeat, even if that station is 20 over 9. It must be puzzling to some
stations when I have to ask for such repeats.
Conditions seemed pretty good to me and the noise level was low. Some have
mentioned that W6 was weak and lacking in activity this year but I found quite
a few W6 stations and they were hearing me better than they normally do. I
missed LAX, ORG and SB but worked EB, SF, SCV, SCJ, SV and SDG, so for me
that's doing pretty well. OTOH, this year it was a little harder than usual to
work the far northwest and BC.
Overall, I worked 47 states, missing ND, AK and HI. Never heard any of them.
As for sections, in addition to the above, I missed NNY (same as SS), PR, WTX,
EWA, NL, SK and NT. Good efforts from NP2X and NP2J despite the problems
they've had recently. I was hoping that VY1AAA might be active but if they
were on I did not hear them.
It's pretty tough for me to work EU on 160 and I don't make any special efforts
to look for EU stations, but this time I noticed that UX1UA, UW2M, EA5RS and
EA7KW were pretty loud. When I heard them during the 02Z hour on Sunday, there
were few callers but they couldn't hear me. But the two French stations that I
called came back right away.
This contest is a mix of working old friends and new (to me) stations that are
not very active in other contests, so it's a lot of fun. It's amazing just how
much activity there is on this band today. I always think back to the 1950's
when LORAN pretty much made this band useless, at least to stations in Northern
Ohio where I lived. It's so much better today!
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