ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 719 Sections = 72 Countries = 29 Total Score = 156,146
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Conditions were definitively better Friday evening. I had several of the
European skimmers pick up my call that evening but only one on Saturday night,
and it was something like only 3-5 dB. Also, on Saturday night I experienced a
lot of rapid QSB and also more noise, which of course made copy more difficult.
Saturday morning was so-so, I never heard AK, KH6 or JA which in past years I
could always count on. Sunday morning was even worse, I could hear several
California stations but none could hear me. However, maybe it was because of my
Beverages and I live in the country that I can hear better than being heard! On
the other hand I had a few call me that even with frantically switching between
Beverages I just could not pull out.
About half of my contacts were made by running, usually way up the band so that
my frequency was clear on both sides, and I did have several Europeans call!
Those I had worked while searching were more difficult to work because of close
by (and much stronger) signals and also many were calling. There was a LY
station CQing under a strong SSB station on 1860KHz and I was actually copying
him but I did not want to disturb the SSB rag-chewing. I tried other LY
stations elsewhere but I was not successful putting that country into the log.
The same can be said for the South American station (in Brazil, if I remember
correctly) who was not copying anybody, at least when I tried to work him.
I worked a lot of PVRC members, and it was good to hear everyone on!
73, Sam W4PK
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