It's us little pistols who make up a good deal of your scores I expect. Not
that I'm such a little one but this season I have not even been able to get my
inv 'L to work right. Put in power and SWR goes thru the roof????? Go Figure.
Planning on seting up a K2AV FCP but it won't be by next weekend and my
favorite 160 contest....160CQSSB. Been lazy this winter I guess.
Terry
KI7M
> On February 17, 2020 at 10:54 AM Bill Stewart <cwopr@embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Even us little pistols can have loads of fun. I managed to work 41 DX stns
> with
> 35 countries. Seventeen stns were in EU & 17 in the Carib. Rest in Cent. Am.
> and KH6. I was hearing strong EU stns just before our sunset, but my first EU
> QSO
> was around 0100Z on Fri and 0Z on Sat night. The strongest EU sigs were in
> the
> S-7/S-8 range and Carib stns mostly a true 59+. KH7M & KH6/N6DA both bumping
> S9 plus at times. My last log entry was LY7Z at 2351Z Sun night. Not being in
> the
> contest, I just hunted and pounced on the strongest sigs. Got some, missed
> some.
> I was using a TS-440S, 100W, a run-of-the-mill Inv. L. I heard no bad
> ops...all were
> courteous and no big pileups. As noted, there were a few speed demons, but
> some
> careful listening got them figured out. One op, may have been S50C, worked
> with
> me over a minute to get me in his log. All gave me a good chance to get thru.
> Fun!
>
> 73 de Bill K4JYS/NC
>
>
>
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