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Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ 160 Post Mortem

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ 160 Post Mortem
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Reply-to: n2ic@arrl.net
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:08:31 -0700
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Tom Taormina wrote:
> I could not be more pleased with KY7M's performance at my station in the CQ
> 160 Contest (1,119-57-34-326,417). He even outscored the West Coast King of
> 160 (N6TR) who operated 6.5 hours more and was multiop.
> 
> A big plus to my station this last year has been the full-size ¼ wave
> transmit vertical with ground radials (and 2' of snow). An even bigger plus
> is the DX Engineering 4 Square RX antenna. This is the fourth contest we
> have used the DXE array and it has opened a new world for us on 160. It is a
> pricey antenna, but I can't say enough about how much better it is than any
> other RX antennas I have tried over the last 30 years.
> 

And the biggest plus was that the propagation to Europe clearly favored 
stations 
farther to the south, compared to places such as the Pacific Northwest.

73,
Steve, N2IC
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