CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB - 2023
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 5:23
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 182 State/Prov = 30 Countries = 2 Total Score = 12,960
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I had a few minutes Friday evening before my other-world shutdown, so I tried to
make a few QSOs. Oh no! The external autotuner will not match the antenna.
It's too late to check the feedline for windflex damage, and Saturday night it
will be too dark. I put that all out of my mind for 25 hours, and was rewarded
Saturday evening, just as I was ending my shutdown, by remembering that the
autotuner needs 10W of RF to work, and I had cranked my power down to 5W to do
some statio0n adjustments. When I was QRV at 0030Z Saturday night, I bumped the
power back up to 100W, and the autotuner worked ok (mostly). Off we go!
As in most contests, 100W and a dipole is more effective on CW than on SSB. I
had some small runs. I mostly was not being heard very well. In the Caribbean
I worked only a ZF.
Amazingly, I did work my first 160M SSB European, sort of. I5xxx managed to dig
me out (likely with the help of SCP and CHF), Wow! Then, reading other
participants' reports, I learn that he is actually I2xxx. ("I clearly
heard him say 'five'..." but my hearing is so bad that it could also have
been 2 or 3 or 9. And no, I am NOT fixing my log.)
A little surprised to miss VT, with three pretty active regulars. Just about
zero QSOs across the Mississippi River. I quit at 06Z, so I had little chance
there.
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