CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: AA4FU
Operator(s): AA4FU
Station: AA4FU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 341 State/Prov = 52 Countries = 7 Total Score = 45,902
Club:
Comments:
I wasn't planning on a serious effort for this one and didn't even turn on the
radio until after 03:30 Saturday, but I had been reading up on some ideas for
160m antennas and decided to try one. I shorted the center conductor and
shield on the coax feeding my old 80m dipole and it worked great. I fed it
through the random wire binding post on my antenna tuner and was able to keep a
low SWR for the entire band. Now I just need to get it higher in the trees.
I managed to work 45 states, missing AK, HI, ID, ND, & WY. I heard one station
from ND with a strong signal, but the pileup was huge. I also heard one from WY
but he wasn't hearing me. I couldn't hear any stations from Europe, except for
CU2A. Getting the antenna higher should help.
Most of my time was spent in S&P mode, but I did have a few brief runs. My
biggest surprise was having a NM station answer one of my CQs!
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