[3830] ARRL 160 K4XU Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: K4XU
Operator(s): K4XU
Station: K4XU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: OR
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 551  Sections = 73  Countries = 4  Total Score = 88,550

Club: 

Comments:

Couldn't start until almost 10PM local time, 06z, Friday night but was able to
hold a frequency right away and kept up a good rate until I pooped out about
1030Z. Got a good start the second night and thought for a while I might make a
sweep. Especially after VO1HP and VY2ZM called me in succession! Activity seemed
down a bit from last year. There was not as much Caribean DX available as usual.
KV4FZ, PJ2T, XE, HK0, and several JAs were all the DX I could find. However, I
did not get up for the dawn patrol either morning.

Conditions had a lot of slow QSB. A station would answer my CQ - loud and
easily copied - and when it came time to get his exchange, he'd be in the mud.
With patience, waiting for the QSB tide to rise again, the QSO completed.

"Mud" here is relative. There is a S-7 broadband pulsing noise covering the
lower end of 160m here that has two notches in it - classic pulsed envelope
stuff - where I can be productive if there is a spot there to wiggle into and
call CQ. I need to make a directive antenna, at least one with a good null,
that I can hook to the IC703 and wander the property lines in search of its
source. The deer have torn down all of my receiving antennas. One of the Bambis
got tangled in a pennant made with #18 copperweld and froze to death. Martha
Stewart, the local Sierra Club and the ASPCA were a little unhappy.... 

Gear:
Radio: Ten-Tec Omni 6+ and Home-brew kW (actually Alpha 86 serial # -1)
Antenna: inverted L,  spaced ~2' from the tower up to 68' and ~60' sloping down
from there at 45 deg. Fed against 12 radials, three elevated quarter wave and
the rest on the ground, varing from 130 down to 60' depending on distance to
property line. The lot is 300' x 175', within the city limits of Bend, and
surrounded by moderate density residential subdiviions.

Thanks for the QSOs, see y'all in Stew Perry.

Dick


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