Last year Stew smiled on us and we had the best condx I ever experienced
in a contest on 160m. I guess Stew decided to make the contest more
appropriate to its name this year -- a CHALLENGE!
I started at 0100 GMT with high hopes. 60 QSOs in my first hour wasn't
too bad, but it rapidly went downhill after that, hi.
As far as a challenge goes, the biggest challaenge for me was staying
awake in the wee hours fighting the boredom of the poor condx. Twice I
fell asleep.
I worked all of the DX I heard, which wasn't much -- WP2, KH6, and four
JAs.
Final high-power score was 191 QSOs, 928 points. Farthest DX was JH4UYB
in grid PM64 for 9321.963 km.
As a measure of how condx were, last year my average distance per QSO was
4174 km. This year my average was only 2179 km per QSO. I use the
following formula:
Average distance per QSO = (points / qsos X 500) - 250
73, de Earl, K6SE
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