ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC
Class: M/S HP
QTH: SCV
Operating Time (hrs): 24.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 781 Sections = 76 Countries = 11 Total Score = 143,985
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was single op, single TX, but I used the cluster, so it's officially M/S
class.
This was my best effort yet in a 160M contest. Nearly 80%
of my time was running (or at least calling CQ), including
45 minutes beginning around 3am this morning that I can't
account for. Call it BIC and FAS (falling asleep) time,
during which Rusty gave me one of a half dozen spots,
the last around 7 am. Kept BIC until 7:30 am, and the last
hour rewarded me with 17 DX Qs and two more mults --
RU0LL and DS1REE and a dozen JAs came well after
sunrise! I didn't spend much time chasing EU DX -- CT1
was the only one I could near, and I called him a few times
-- but I did pick up the easy ones late at night after the
crowd had thinned out.
Missed NLI, NNY, NL, NWT, and PR. Several VO1s were
spotted during the day, so will be in a bunch of east coast
and EU logs. The last NNY I worked in ARRL 160 was
from Chicago, and he moved to FL in 2006. I've never
worked PR in ARRL 160.
Propagation was pretty good to NA, but only so-so for DX.
Never heard or saw spots for anything in the South
Pacific, no VK or ZL, and JAs were much weaker than
usual. On the other hand, noise levels seemed to be
down, although I was definitely hearing propagated noise
at various times -- that is, the accumulated trash of
thousands of noise generators in peoples homes and
businesses -- and it limited what I could hear at times.
One of the things that makes this contest get better each
year is that more and more K3s are in use. Several times
while I was running, W6OAT landed within 700 Hz trying to
grab a DX mult. I knew he was there (at least 30 over 9),
but I could easily work through him. Very few dirty signals
this year. One east coast station sounded like their rig
was taking off, and a spot for them (a club station) said
they had a spur 2 kHz up.
73,
Jim K9YC
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