CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB
Call: N9TF
Operator(s): N9TF
Station: N9TF
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 177 State/Prov = 40 Countries = 1 Total Score = 16,195
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
160m and SSB contesting with low power and a low hanging cloud warming antenna
is quite the challenge, just to be heard beyond the small "high" angle of
radiated RF dropping back to earth just a few hundred miles away! I was
actually surprised I worked as many stations as I did, including one DX (HK),
who was unbelievably strong from that direction.
Had lots of noise. Without any RX attenuation noise level was over S9. Ran with
12DB of RX attenuation and 30% noise reduction. Had to wear head phones as it
was hard to separate voices from noise unless the noise was blaring in my ears!
Most all of my operation was Friday night into Saturday morning, as I wanted to
operate NAQP RTTY also. Pulled the plug Saturday morning local time around
1:45am. I did get up at 5:30am local to see if there was any chance of some
west coast, PAC or AK. Band was even noisier, and prop seemed close in. Only
heard a couple west coast stations late Friday night and they were very weak
here and not workable. There seemed to be a filter curtain to the west.
Normally on CW I have no problem working what I hear in that direction. Just
didn't hear anything this time.
I did make a few more contacts late Saturday night Sunday morning after I
pulled the plug from NAQP RTTY. Btween the diddles and static noise drilling in
my head, I had had enough by about 12:30am Sunday morning.
Operating conditions: Icom 756 ProIII 100 watts to inverted U 33' vertical.
73 Gene, N9TF
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