CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2020
Call: AD5A
Operator(s): AD5A
Station: AD5A
Class: Single Op Assisted HP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 8:20
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 470 State/Prov = 50 Countries = 33 Total Score = 114,623
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
There is so much about this effort that I don't understand. My QTH is literally
on the summit of a hill, 1875ft ASL, near Boerne, TX, and it is extremely quiet,
so I have that going for me. My TX/RX antenna was an Alpha Delta DX-A, about 55
ft high mounted on my tower, that's it. Being on the top of the hill, obviously,
helps. Additionally, I just bought a FlexRadio 6400 just to see what all the
hoopla is about and to have something a little easier to remote to. I used it
for this contest instead of my K3S. For 160 RX, I normally use a BOG that has,
in the past, worked great with my K3S. However, with the 6400, the TX antenna
far outperformed the BOG on RX. I don't know if the 6400 receiver is just that
much better or the K3S has better RX antenna amplification. I guess it doesn't
matter. I was astonished at the rates I was able to run and the DX that was
calling me in addition to winning pile-ups. I was too mesmerized to walk away
from what I figured would be a couple of hours of fun.
I'm normally a DX'er in this contest, but the pile-ups I was getting were too
distracting and I'm sure I missed some good stuff as reported by N5AW.
AD5A Max Rates: Not the run of 172 QSO's in 1.5 hours.
2020-01-26 0317Z - 4.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour by
2020-01-26 0418Z - 2.5 per minute (10 minute(s)), 150 per hour by
2020-01-26 0438Z - 2.0 per minute (60 minute(s)), 121 per hour by
AD5A Runs >10 QSOs: for computer named: DESKTOP-F9BED1S
2020-01-25 0101 - 0112Z, 1870 kHz, 15 Qs, 85.0/hr AD5A
2020-01-25 0232 - 0318Z, 1858 kHz, 72 Qs, 95.4/hr AD5A
2020-01-25 0405 - 0422Z, 1843 kHz, 23 Qs, 79.5/hr AD5A
2020-01-25 0447 - 0457Z, 1817 kHz, 20 Qs, 109.8/hr AD5A
2020-01-26 0139 - 0211Z, 1881 kHz, 31 Qs, 58.1/hr AD5A
2020-01-26 0215 - 0241Z, 1858 kHz, 15 Qs, 35.0/hr AD5A
2020-01-26 0314 - 0452Z, 1814 kHz, 172 Qs, 105.3/hr AD5A
2020-01-26 0532 - 0556Z, 1814 kHz, 35 Qs, 86.1/hr AD5A
2020-01-26 0615 - 0628Z, 1829 kHz, 11 Qs, 52.0/hr AD5A
I had 46, non-NA QSO's and 18 EU entities, with a $120 Antenna.
I love this radio stuff.
Thanks for the QSO's
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