[3830] CQ160 CW AA0RS Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: AA0RS
Operator(s): AA0RS
Station: AA0RS

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Colorado
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1002  State/Prov = 59  Countries = 41  Total Score = 293,600

Club: 

Comments:

Thanks to everyone who operated, it takes a lot of hard work by a lot of people
to make 160 sound so busy. Conditions into Colorado were mediocre, no really
outstanding signals from Europe on either night and those that were audible were
sharing the frequency with NA stations making it impossible to even call them
without offending someone. Our usual opening to Japan, when we can expect to
work 100 or more stations didn't happen, only 15 contacts were made the first
night and about 10 on the second. Thanks to the European operators who did work
at it to get the call in the log, there were no easy qsos this year. Overall,
conditions were poor but the high level of NA activity helped to keep it
interesting. 
I have been participating in this contest for over 30 years, from both sides of
the Atlantic and like many others have gone from paper logs to the current high
tech logging and DX cluster scenario we use today. The inequality in the scoring
system has always been there and you have to accept it, but the loss of the
serial number exchange, the nonsense of a universal 5NN signal strength report 
and the loss of split frequency operation have all contributed to a lowering of
the challenge of making a "real" qso. Like so many other things we have to
accept these days, its all about quantity, not quality. Todays contest is like
fast food, you rush in and gobble it down, some of us get indigestion, some of
us get fat .... Bummer!  

Those of you that had fun are the real winners and I salute you.....
Dave AA0RS / G3SZA


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