ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 4.25
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 149 Sections = 33 Countries = 0 Total Score = 9,834
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
2.5 hours Saturday nite from 00Z, and 1.75 hours Sunday morning from 10Z. Much
better results than previous effort. I fed the 100-ft dipole as a dipole and I
learned how to use the TS-850's auto-tuner (RTFM!!). So I was running 50 to 70W
with SWR close to flat, instead of previous 5 to 10W with SWR near infinity.
Now all I have to do is learn how to operate 160. I sort-of remembered that
there is a DX window, but I did not know where it was. So I started with S&P,
figuring if I heard a W/VE calling CQ TEST, then I was allowed to answer them.
Later I tried some CQs. At one point I was selling some wares on 1830.7, until
N3IQ told me I was in the DX band. Thanks (really), Brian.
Even though I was fresh blood CQs were not working too well, and I was
wondering if anybody was using packet. I found out Sunday morning about 1011Z.
Somebody must have spotted me because I had 15 QSOs in the next 10 minutes, and
10 more in the 12 minutes after that. BTW, it's easy to find a CQ freq if you
can hear only the top tier signals. I figure that I'm not bothering anybody I
can't hear, and maybe I'll be loud enough somewhere for an S&P to hear me.
Best distance was SFL and SD; heard some MAR, but all S&P, and not for me.
Also W3CG in WPA (the call is now in my wet-ware call history file). Never
heard any DX or Delaware(!).
73, Art K3KU
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