CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: IT9GSF
Operator(s): IT9GSF
Station: IT9GSF
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Sicily
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 603 State/Prov = 21 Countries = 61 Total Score = 276,668
Club:
Comments:
Good propagation, but worse than days be4, in the first hours of the contest,
with a good pile up of state side stns. Then... QRN with approacing
thunderstorms.
A problem remains to copy barefoot stations from EU.
I think I need more Beverage's antennas.
The idea was to be QRV from IG9... but the ship to the island was stopped 3 days
because of bad sea. Hope next year to leave the TX antenna (a 9 mts diameter
TXing loop) in the island after the november CQWW.
A very nice surprise was to receive a spot from K1ZM that was copying my signal
at 1923Z from the VY2ZM's QTH with the sun high in the sky (in a post contest
e-mail Jeff reports 579 for my signal!).
Also... a spot by EY8MM that wrote "LOUD" in the evening.... It was very nice
for 500 W... The antenna really works as a full size vertical... and there are
not radials !
The second day I was busy with family affairs, not many QSOs, not possible any
pile-up... and not worked the contest the last 8 hours.
Many thanks to all friends worked... reports about my operation are very well
accepted (I am a neophite on Top Band and need experience).
73 de Fabio, IT9GSF.
Equipments:
IC765 + Motorola commercial transistor amplifier + 9 meters diameter 1 5/8"
copper pipe antenna for 1838KHz and near QRGs + sloper and tower for other
QRGs.
Software: Writelog for windows (tm).
DX de K1ZM: 1826.3 K1TTT 1920Z
DX de K1ZM: 1838.8 IT9GSF 1923Z
DX de RA3AJ: 1829.7 S59ABC 1922Z
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