[3830] CQ160 CW N8UM Single Op LP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: N8UM
Operator(s): N8UM
Station: N8UM

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 629  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 16  Total Score = 99,774

Club: Tennessee Contest Group

Comments:

Thanks to AG4M for the use of his antenna tuner.  I have made over 3500 QSOs
with it on 160 in the last 3 years (I guess I need to return it soon).  I
promise to put the W8JI key click mod in by the 04 ARRL Test...  I can't say
enough about the FT-1000 Mk V with the IPO on.  What a pleasure to operate
compared to the old TS-940.  Antenna is a single 66 ft. vertical left from the
80m 4SQR.  I use an old Hy-Tower Air Dux base loaded, but it seems to work.  
Probably 60% of the 38,000 ft of radials are still connected. 

I listened to W4AN run ghost European stations on 1823, I can't even hear a
whisper and I am only 175 miles away...

I don't know what to think of all the crazy operators who gave me many contacts
2 hours after east coast sunrise and between 3 and 5 pm on Sunday afternoon...

Good start to the test with 124 Q's in the opening hour.  I slept thru the
opening to Eu Saturday night.  Getting to be a real Gray Beard.  Never had any
man made noise or static crashes.  K6SE, a boyhood friend of 40 years was the
consistent winner on signal strength, tied with N6RO from his sunset till well
past mine...

John B.  N8UM  Oak Ridge, Tennessee


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