[3830] CQ160 CW N3UM Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: N3UM
Operator(s): N3UM
Station: N3UM

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 691  State/Prov = 52  Countries = 38  Total Score = 179,190

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

I met my goal (doing better than last year) in all key numbers: more   
QSOs, states + provinces, countries, and score.  Conditions generally 
good except for short intervals of p-static.  Worked a few EUs Sat.,
in the hours experience and propagation forecasts would predict: 06- 
0730Z.  Next day, Sun. 0205Z, when I was running Ks and NOT expecting 
many EUs, an HA called me; OK, nice.  Then, I was instantly at the 
bottom of an EU pileup.  In the next 27 minutes I worked 21 EUs, 10 
EU multipliers, one VE mult (NS), and 28 total QSOs.  In 4 years of 
160 contesting I've never seen anything like it: the curtains parted,
the propagation gods smiled, the D layer evaporated, and 160 sounded 
like 40 meters, but only for half an hour.  I assume the big-gun 160   
stations must have runs like this, but with my inverted L and single 
half-wave reversible baby Beverage this was something new.  Made 16  
more EU QSOs and 5 EU mults. plus 7 NA QSOs 0520-0630Z Sun., H&P, but 
not again anything like the 0200Z run. Missed only ND in the contig. 
48 states, but the openings to W7 were briefer than in 2003. The CQ 
160 CW contest has always been one of my favorites, but is now even 
more so.  See you next year!

Gear: TenTec Orion, Alpha 99 amp


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