[3830] ARRL 160 N9TF Single Op LP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: N9TF
Operator(s): N9TF
Station: N9TF

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 18.3

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 536  Sections = 70  Countries = 5  Total Score = 81,525

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Comments:

Had a great time. Put up new antenna a week before contest and seemed to play a
bit better than the 100 foot short dipole at 35'. New antenna is a kinda
inverted L with vertical apex at 35' and the rest of the radiatorzig zig
zagging around the backyard down to 12' off ground, five 50 foot radials. Band
was noisy here, S9 of hash (plasma TV AT&T Uverse) and other electronic crap in
neighborhood. I know there were quite a few stations calling I just could not
pull out of my noise floor, and I'm sure I missed a lot aof calls I could not
even hear. Band seemed better Friday night into Saturday morning for
propagation, but was also noisier during that time frame. CA stations were
tough to work as prop seemed to drop off west of about MT/WY. Some of the CA
stations sounded watery and very weak. Did manage one KH6, but no KL7. Pile was
tooooo big and didn't even try! By midnight Saturday night, Sunday morning, I
had worked just about all the new stations under my umbrella layer of power,
antenna and noise, and the remaining 4 1/2 hours was mostly spent calling CQ
with very little response and searching for any new ones calling. 
I did manage to work 5 DX, all Carribean, which is the direction, if I really
have any antenna direction at this antenna height, which the direction the
horizontal portion of of the runs, SE.

I have LOTS of SMCer's in the log. It was great to work you all!
Now lets get those logs in!!!!!

Rig: 756 ProIII 100 watts to lazy sloping inverted L 35' vertical apex. Same
antenna for RX

73 Gene N9TF


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