CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: F6IRF
Operator(s): F6IRF
Station: F6IRF
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: jn35
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 462 State/Prov = 8 Countries = 58 Total Score = 158,136
Club:
Comments:
Rig: IC7000 / IC756pro2 100W max
TX Antenna: HB 18m vertical with 16x ground mounted (under 20cm snow) 1/8
radials and Icom AT130 auto-tuner.
RX Antenna: HB Indoor multi-turns Hi-Q magnetic loop "vintage BCL style"
No cluster: anyway the ADSL stops as soon as I TX on 160, requiring to reboot
the modem...
My first part-time effort in this contest(*) (I shared my time with REF-CW). My
first motivation was to test the "just received" IC7000 in real contest
situation (see my TRX review on http://www.eham.net/reviews/review/55517 ).
However after the first night I switched back to the pro2, and re-installed my
RX loop, the only RX antenna I have ever tried (must say that I have tried
quite a few!) which really helps to reduce the local line-noise (turned once
for all for the minimum noise which is NNE-SSW on all bands and with any kind
of directional antenna).
Did not expect to be able to work that many stations... especialy to be able to
hear them ! The band was crowded from edge to edge, and even far outside (for us
in France the band is limited to 1810-1850) and having a very narrow DSP filter
on both rigs not a luxury. Did only S&P during the first night. Listening on
the vertical, I could work almost everybody I could hear... After I put back
the RX-loop many stations that I could clearly hear could not hear me anymore:
good indication that I had clearly improved my reception... enough
to afford a few CQ's...
Quite a few new-ones; Well, I'll never be competitive from home on the
top-band, but it has been fun to take part...
CU next month from CN2WW (no noise over there)and congrats to the CN2A team for
their score!
Pat
http://f6irf.blogspot.com/
http://cn2ww.blogspot.com/
(*) Because same weekend as REF-CW and BARTG RTTY. Furthermore I use to
consider that 160m was impossible from home, due to the high level electrical
noise generated by the 380kV line passing 250m away from my garden and the
unsufficient space available to install beverages (RX antennas having a
cardioid pattern like EWE, K9AY and others do not help, because, seen from
home, the high-power line noise appears to come from 2 opposite directions)
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