ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2022
Call: WU6P
Operator(s): WD6T N6RO WU6P
Station: N6RO
Class: M/S HP
QTH: EB
Operating Time (hrs): 42
OpMode: SO2R
Remote Operation
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 633 Sections = 77 Countries = 6 Total Score = 110,805
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
The N6RO team decide to have a multi-Single and use WU6P call for this year's
ARRL 160 contest. Dave WD6T (remote), Ken K6RO and Nian WU6P did the
operation, Matt WX5S and Chris N6WM provide support.
At the start of the contest team use the day time work some west cost locals.
Then the traffic starts to build up and we can have some good run time here and
there.
Conditions in general are down from last year: first evening, though we made
reasonable QSOs, still lackluster with no W1/W2 making it. We never had a real
opening to EU, and the opening to JA is short, though happed earlier(09Z) than
before, and the usual time (11Z) JA opening does not happen. When we are at
Saturday morning, we are slightly behind our previous year QSO numbers, hoping
the 2nd night we can fill more on the missing sessions and working more Country
multipliers.
Second day, things getting much worse. There comes the local rain all night,
where we feel even most W8/W9 getting absorbed. We also feel maybe due to poor
condition, many operators choose to short their operation time. Activities are
dramatically lower than previous day. We did not work any DX other than JA at
2nd night. JA comes in at 09Z and at 11Z, but signals are very week and we have
to work hard to pull it out.
The PG&E power sudden outage for an hour during the contest does not help
either.
There are for sure many memorable moment, like you can feel the joy from the
other side, when you two struggle the last 2 minutes trying to get that small
piece of message passed and finally succeed, which happened many times in this
contest. And in the lonely time calling CQ with no activity, suddenly there
comes up one, better yet, he is a formal CWAcademy student of yours, and the
best part, shortly after you received a message from him stated that is his
first ever 160m QSO. Makes the rainy night warms up.
Things keep getting you excited on contest and looking forward for the next
one.
Again, thanks for everyone's QSO and appreciate your hard work make it happen.
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