[3830] CQ160 CW IT9GSF Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: IT9GSF
Operator(s): IT9GSF
Station: IT9GSF

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Sicily
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 603  State/Prov = 21  Countries = 61  Total Score = 276,668

Club: 

Comments:

Good propagation, but worse than days be4, in the first hours of the contest,
with a good pile up of state side stns. Then... QRN with approacing
thunderstorms. 
A problem remains to copy barefoot stations from EU.
I think I need more Beverage's antennas.
The idea was to be QRV from IG9... but the ship to the island was stopped 3 days
because of bad sea. Hope next year to leave the TX antenna (a 9 mts diameter
TXing loop) in the island after the november CQWW.

A very nice surprise was to receive a spot from K1ZM that was copying my signal
at 1923Z from the VY2ZM's QTH with the sun high in the sky (in a post contest
e-mail Jeff reports 579 for my signal!). 
Also... a spot by EY8MM that wrote "LOUD" in the evening.... It was very nice
for 500 W... The antenna really works as a full size vertical... and there are
not radials !
The second day I was busy with family affairs, not many QSOs, not possible any
pile-up... and not worked the contest the last 8 hours.

Many thanks to all friends worked... reports about my operation are very well
accepted (I am a neophite on Top Band and need experience).

73 de Fabio, IT9GSF.

Equipments:
IC765 + Motorola commercial transistor amplifier + 9 meters diameter 1 5/8"
copper pipe antenna for 1838KHz and near QRGs + sloper and tower for other
QRGs.

Software: Writelog for windows (tm).

DX de K1ZM:       1826.3  K1TTT                                       1920Z
DX de K1ZM:       1838.8  IT9GSF                                      1923Z
DX de RA3AJ:      1829.7  S59ABC                                      1922Z


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