CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: N2IC
Operator(s): N2IC
Station: N2IC
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: New Mexico
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 787 State/Prov = 59 Countries = 38 Total Score = 258,990
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Other commitments, happening this weekend every year, make this a part-time
effort. Besides, with a single element transmit antenna, it's just not fun to
get trounced by nearby stations with serious 160 antennas.
8 of my 10 operating hours were on Saturday night. My usual rule-of-thumb is
that if it doesn't open to Europe by 0530Z, it's not going to open. Boy, was I
wrong ! My first EU was SM4CAN at 0608Z. That's not to say that I didn't hear
other stations earlier, but they couldn't hear me. A few more EU S&P until
0643Z, but nothing to get excited about. I started running at 0649Z, and still
can't believe what happened between 0649Z and 0830Z. A real EU run - 70 EU
QSO's. Many of the G's and EA's that called sounded more like 40 meters. Lots of
others, much weaker, but well after their sunrise. This is a first for me on 160
- wish I recorded it. Looking at RBN data, it seems that this was a spotlight
opening for me and my neighbor, N5FO (30 miles west of me), with signals
dropping off quickly moving west into Arizona.
Thanks for the QSO's !
73,
Steve, N2IC
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