CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB
Call: K9ZO
Operator(s): K9ZO
Station: K9ZO
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: il
Operating Time (hrs): 1033
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 748 State/Prov = 56 Countries = 15 Total Score = 122,120
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
I was talking to my wife so I started quite late. Apparently there is an
advantage to this - the first 45 minutes produced 174 QSOs, with the first hour
netting 202 QSOs! One 10 minute period produced 49 QSOs. We don't get that
rate often except as DX and during the sunspot highs. After the initial hour
the rate dropped significantly. I don't know how to quantify working the band
out. It got slow very quickly. When I went to bed I scanned the band and did
not find a single new station. Conditions were good and the band was quiet.
In the morning there was not much activity, but made few more contacts.
NAQP RTTY contest during the day and evening.
I checked 160 in the evening, but only found a few guys to work. CQs produced
a very slow rate. I quit sometime after 1am when the rate dropped to a dozen an
hour.
Missed SD, and a lot of the VE1s. Not much DX except for Caribbean. I need more
antennas and gain. The challenge will be the wind which howls in the winter.
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