CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2021
Call: SQ6ABC
Operator(s): LZ1ABC
Station: LZ1ABC
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Sierpnica
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 519 State/Prov = 3 Countries = 41 Total Score = 112,244
Club:
Comments:
QTH: Village called Sierpnica in Sound-West Poland
Rig: Kenwood TS-590s (100w) synced with RSP1A using LZ1AQ TRX-SDR Switch Kit.
Ant: Inverted-L (14.5m vertical wire and 28.1m horizontal wire) with 17 radials
(each 18m). Took also the LZ1AQ active antenna with me, but the location was so
quiet that I didn't need to use it.
(All times are local)
We rented a house in the mountains for the weekend with the idea to spent some
family time and also take part in the contest. We arrived Friday around 16h. It
was getting dark and decided to skip the first night. However, after
contemplating for an hour or so, I decided to act and started erecting the
antenna. Although it was already dark, cold and snowing it felt great (I start
to think that I enjoy the fun around preparing for the contest more than the
actual contest). Surprisingly everything went well and around 22h I was ready
with an SWR of 1.0 at 1.880MHz.
The first night I worked till 04:00 but didn't hear any JA and only few NA. I
was able to work vy2zm who was CQing at 1.810 with very strong signal. The only
other significant DX for the night was D4Z who had also an extremely strong
signal. Decided to call it a day around 4h as I was supposed to do some hiking
the next day.
The second night I got on the station around 16h local time. As usual Europe was
very strong:) Mostly called CQ. The biggest DX done was RM9I - zone 18. No JAs
were heard unfortunately. Around 22h I went to bed with the idea to wake-up at
04h. Alarm rang but somehow I switched it off and continue sleeping till 06h. No
big deal, wen I got on the radio NA was not that strong and no one could copy
me. Conditions gradually improved and at 7:23 I was able to work aa1k, then nn3w
and k3zm. The strongest NA station heard was n8oo with an actual 589 showing on
my ts-590. However, I was not able to nail him due to many stations calling.
Heard many other NAs but without any luck. Conditions started to deteriorate
after 08h and I pulled the plug around 8:30. It was Sunday morning. This was the
end for me as we had to leave the property at 14h. Taking the antenna down and
packing all the equipment took me around 2h. Weather was marvelous: cold, sunny,
no clouds and a complete absence of wind. We spent the last few hours trekking
around the area and enjoying the unique weather.
I made two videos of the QTH:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsUHqMr2rMA
and here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFhorD_0snM
If you are interested in the TRX-SDR switch made by my father (lz1aq), check it
out here:
https://sdrswitch.active-antenna.eu/
For the next CQ160m I dream of finding a QTH which is no further than 80m from
the seaside in all major directions:)!
73 de lz1abc/chav
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