[3830] CQ 160 Meter SSB test, KJ9C

[MEL]

QSO	POINTS	STATES	DX	TOTAL	HOURS
167	355	43	2	15,975	  4

Single Op, Unassisted, High power (and Low power in the end)

Spent the first night of the contest drinking in the Silver Dollar Saloon 
in Jackson Wyoming, 1500 miles from the rig. In fact, this is where I 
spent the SECOND night of the ARRL DX CW test the weekend before!!! Seems 
to be a pattern here.

Anyway, caught a plane home to Indiana the next day, unpacked my bags 
and took a few more aspirin, and turned on the rig... 160 was hopping and 
I remembered that there was a contest afoot, so worked a few SMC 
members and had a few more brews. Contest would have been a lot more 
fun if the Brand X tuner had not smoked its roller about 1/3 of the way into 
the test... choice to either run 600 watts on the 35 KHz where antenna SWR
is acceptable, or to use the tuner at 100 watts to work above 1850 KHz. 
So I did both, which made for a regal pain in the posterior... after a few 
hours of accidentally sparking and flashing and cussing, the bed looked 
pretty good.

Contest was fun anyway

Mel KJ9C


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