ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: NN3W
Operator(s): NN3W
Station: NN3W
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 12.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 517 Sections = 68 Countries = 12 Total Score = 86,080
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks to Rich NN3W for allowing me to ..... oh wait... No one to thank this
time because I actually operated from home. How about that!
Had no expectations for this event although I did a little prep work by putting
up a new Inverted L for the winter with the apex point up at about 80 feet.
Unrolled out about 8 radials over the course of the week; physically connected
one line to my neighbor's steel wire mesh fence; physically connected another
line to my other neighbor's chain link fence to serve as a radial.
Being low power, there is always an exercise in frustration in 160 meter
contests: stations that CQ in your face and are loud; "rare" DX that you come
across in the clear and start to copy you only to be immediately run over from
what I can clearly tell are the packet spots hoardes; calling CQ and having
runs for 2 or 3 minutes and then have the run promptly die. Happens every
year, although this year I felt that my "guaranteed" coverage envelope extended
out much futher than in past years.
I couldn't work ANY DX (except for the Caribbean) until Saturday night when -
for about a 30 minute period - condx got really good and I landed G, OK, E7, F,
OM, GW, and a few others. Heard stations in SM, ON, PA, OZ, and EA but couldn't
land them.
Worked all the continental US except for NV (which I heard from 3 stations).
Thanks to K7RAT for a 3 minute QSO attempt which worked out for my 47th state
for the event.
Overall I had fun, and look forward to 2013.
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