CQ 160 METER CONTEST -- 1996
Call: AB6FO Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Single with Packet (Multi)
QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES
Totals 225 656 49 12 = 40,016
I used packet for the first time in a long while in a contest, as
I wanted to see if I could hear/work what everyone else around
heard/worked. I got in about 6 hours total, missing local sunset
both days due to celebrating kids' report cards and other family
social engagements, and local sunrise Saturday due to wanting to
sleep.
With a balloon vertical, I worked virtually everything I heard or
that was spotted on packet while I was in the shack.
Unfortunately I was not around for some juicy DX that I would
have liked to see if I could have worked. And I'm sure there were
stations to be heard that I didn't hear. A sip RX antenna (a sip
is a short beverage, about 250') yielded a few things that the
balloon vertical didn't hear. It's pointed toward the Carribean,
so I worked some Carribean stations on 160 for the first time. I
also worked my first JA's on 160 off the balloon.
As an RX antenna, a short sloper, K6STI loop and rotating 80
meter dipole at 70' didn't measure up to the balloon vertical or
sip of a beverage.
73. Ken, AB6FO, KWIDELITZ@DELPHI.COM
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