CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: AB7E
Operator(s): AB7E
Station: AB7E
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Arizona
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 326 State/Prov = 53 Countries = 9 Total Score = 50,654
Club: Central Arizona DX Association
Comments:
I began the contest really tired and quickly decided I wasn't going to be able
to put in a full effort, so I ended up simply having fun. Just as well ... the
east coast couldn't hear me until well late in the evening even though signals
were strong right from sunset. I hit 60 minute rates of 80 per hour well after
local midnight but I was just too tired to take advantage of it.
One of the frustrating aspects of having a low noise QTH is that I could hear
far more DX than I could work with my rather low Inverted-V and 100 watts. I
blew the 4CX-800A's in my amp during the Stew Perry when a mouse chewed through
one of the support lines of my antenna and I didn't notice the high SWR during a
run, so switching to high power was not an option. NM7M claims that horizontal
polarization suffers by a full 9 db from my QTH to Europe compared with vertical
polarization, so it looks like I'll be putting up a vertical soon. As it was,
12 hours of operation netted me a handful of JA's and all states except the two
I never heard (VT and ND), but the furthest east I got was EA8. Biggest
disappointment was not being able to work BA4RF even though he had a nice signal
here in Arizona for almost a half hour.
Dave AB7E
southern Arizona (DM41vi)
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