[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): 36

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1708  Sections = 79  Countries = 51  Total Score = 524,030

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

This is the 40th ARRL 160M Contest and I have participated and sent scores in
for 35 of them. I really like this contest. This weekend was especially
outstanding and I achieved a personal high for score, multipliers, and QSOs for
the contest.

This weekend was also the best conditions that I remember to Europe of any of
the previous ARRL 160M Contests. At times Europeans were calling loud enough
that it sounded like I was running on 20M. I have heard conditions like this
before when I was operating this contest from New York, but it is very unusual
to get conditions like this from Texas. I worked 157 Europeans and that is
another personal high from Texas. I remember once in New York during the 1980s
working 179 Europeans but with fewer multipliers to show for it.

But conditions to the west and Japan were below average. I only worked 27 JAs
which is about half what I would expect as normal. But it isn't unusual for 160
meters to have good conditions to one direction and not the other during a
weekend.

Since I have moved to Texas my ARRL 160M Contest goals are simple, to try to
make the top ten. Sometime I make it, sometimes I don't. Last year I also set
new personal records for this contest but failed to make the top ten. So it
remains to be seen if I will make the top ten this year.

It is a different contest for those of us operating west of the Mississippi.

Thanks for all the QSOs.

73, Richard - K5NA


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