Spent some time operating the ARRL 160 contest. Generally good conditions
both nights to the US but very little participation by DX stns.
537 Q's, 73 Sections, 3 Countries = 88,920 16.5 hours
Station TS-950, 8877, shunt-fed 100' tower
I agree with Alan, there are some incredible alligators out there. It's bad
enough that they are 4 or 5 S-units out of the noise when they can't hear
you calling, but it's worse when you have been running stns on a freq for
an hour and they plop down, dead zero beat, without a QRL, and start calling
CQ....... I guess some people have never listened to 160 without a ton
of man-made noise to know what they are missing. To bad......
73 Rick N6ND
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