[3830] CQ160 CW N4KG Multi-Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: N4KG
Operator(s): N4KG +PACKET
Station: N4KG

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: ALA
Operating Time (hrs): 13.2

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 479  State/Prov = 59  Countries = 57  Total Score = 210,308

Club: 

Comments:

I concentrated primarily on Multipliers with 108 multipliers worked in the first
9 hours including all states except VT and ND and 51 countries.  Most USA
stations were worked barefoot while most DX was worked at 1KW. I heard 599 VT
being sent, called "VT de N4KG" followed by "up 1" where I found W1KRV.  N0UD
andswered my CQ from ND for my 50th state.  Missed VE1/NB, VE8, VY1 in Canada.

Conditions seemed to peak Thursday night (0500 to 0610Z Friday) and again Friday
evening (2300 to 2400Z) just before the contest.  During the contest, signals
from Europe were down but still workable.  I don't think I've ever worked over
50 countries in a single night on 160M before so that was pretty exciting!

The G's were noticably weaker than the rest of Europe Friday night. W6/KH6 were
als quite weak Friday night. Saturday night, the G's were louder but the rest of
Europe was noticably weaker and harder to work from Alabama (70 miles east of
W5!  W6/7 and KH6's were much louder Saturday night.  Sunday evening was quite
poor to Europe at/after my sunset.  ON4UN was 549 and VY2ZM was 559.

PJ2T was my only SA QSO.  Oceania was represented by 4 KH6's.  CT3,EA8,V5,and 7X
represented Africa. ZC4LI was my only Asian for an all-time new one.  Europe
produced 38 countries with several more active but unreadable or unworkable at
the times they were spotted, mostly by other Europeans.  NA produced 12
countries plus VE/W.  It was like the 160M version of the WAE and NAQP playing
simultaneously.

In the mid 80's there were two EXCELLENT years from Alabama where I worked 140
countries between December and April (84/85?).  For the past 20 YEARS I've never
heard anything approaching those memorable conditions.  Most of the time there
seems to be a "curtain of absorption" that roughly follows the EST/CST boundary.
 Maybe it's a Southern thing (E-layer MUF?) since I often notice that W8/9/0
stations are hearing and working into EU much better than ALA stations.  Such is
life on 160 Meters in the mid-South.

Tom  N4KG


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