[3830] ARRL 160 K5NA Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA
Station: K5NA

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1550  Sections = 78  Countries = 34  Total Score = 377,104

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

The ARRL 160M Contest has long been my favorite contest. This is the 39th year
this contest has been held and I have participated in 34 of them, mostly as a
single-operator.

In past years when I lived in New York my goal was always to try to win it all.
But now that I live in Texas my goals are more simple, to just try to make the
top ten. 

This year I made more QSOs than ever before with my best score ever, but still
won't make the top ten. It is a different contest here in the Southwest than it
is on the East Coast. And that's not a complaint, just a fact of life.

Still, I don't regret a single minute of the weekend and I already look forward
to participating again next year.

The two sections I missed were KP4 and VY1/VE8. I have no idea if anyone was
even on from either of those two sections. There were four other sections in
which I had only one QSO each. They were NL, AK, NNY, and MB.

I worked a modest number of Europeans that mostly called me. I was breaking in
a new K3 and I am still learning to use it. So I wasn't as efficient as I would
have liked to have been with the second receiver. But I will learn it better as
I go.

Thanks to all my old friends who stopped by for a QSO.

73, Richard - K5NA


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