ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: VE3MGY
Operator(s): VE3MGY
Station: VE3MGY
Class: M/S LP
QTH: ONS
Operating Time (hrs): 15.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 735 Sections = 67 Countries = 11 Total Score = 117,936
Club: Contest Club Ontario
Comments:
I was looking for a 1,000 QSO’S this year after just missing it a couple of
times in earlier versions of the ARRL 160 but I just couldn’t put in a full
time effort. I started getting sick on Wednesday and took everything legal I
could get my hands on to be healthy by Friday. But by Friday evening my
sinus’s were clogged and I was coughing and sneezing up a storm. I decided to
suck it up and compete anyway thinking that it wouldn’t really matter if I was
under the weather and I would just have to push myself harder and things would
balance out. Yeah right. Not to be.
I tried to suppress my coughing and sneezing to the lulls between calls or
exchanges but that did not work out and I needed a lot of repeats as I
couldn’t copy CW during a sneeze or a cough. In fact my ears plugged up both
nights so I countered this by cranking the volume which ended up giving me big
migraines both nights hi hi.
Decided to get some sleep both nights so I didn’t end up getting worse which
led to me over sleeping both mornings - probably due to the cough medicine I
took before bed.
Found prop to be down on Friday but really good Saturday evening ( just before
the Kp went to 6 that is ) and I had my best rates of the contest Saturday
evening. I also used packet Saturday evening as I ended up just DXing near the
end of the contest but even though I only used a couple of spots on the cluster
it still put me in the Multi category.
Oh well it's still one of my favorites and I should be healthy for the Big Stew
coming up AND I will also have a brand new K3 to play with!
Thanks for all the QSO’s. It’s always nice to say hi to all my old TB
friends who dropped by over the weekend. I will look for everyone in the Big
Stew.
73
Brian
VE3MGY
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