[3830] TBDC CE1/K7CA Single Op HP

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                    Stew Perry Topband Challenge

Call: CE1/K7CA
Operator(s): CE1/K7CA
Station: CE1/K7CA

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Chile
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 350  Total Score = 6,696

Club: 

Comments:

Another great adventure here in Northern Chile.  Stew Perry down here seems to
go real fast with only 9 hours between sunset and sunrise. 
However, that's not too bad since I might go crazy if I had to pull weak ones
out of the summer qrn here any longer. There must have been
quite a few low power stations calling since sometimes I would have to call
QRZ? many times before I was able to copy one of the many 
callers and then boom, someone would call 4 S units out of the noise and it was
armchair copy for 30 seconds.  I have to apologize to several
of you since I know there were many calling who I just could not pull out of
the noise which was extra strong. N9UA gets the prize 
for most persistance as I worked him after trying for several minutes but must
have gotten his grid wrong.  I heard him calling several more 
times during the next hour and a half but about 200 HZ off my freq and thought
he was calling someone else.  But I finally gave him another 
call since his calls seemed to be timed to mine and then he corrected the grid.
 Thanks for staying in there.    This year I decided
to move to a frequency that I could work JA stations since last year the
evening went so fast I forgot to get into the JA window before my
sunrise and worked only one JA.  This year I worked 45 JA stations which was
amazing since they are not far from my antipode with some 
over 18000 KM away.  Up until JA sunset I was about even with last years score
but with 44 more JA stations in the log this year each being 
about 35 points well, this year should be better.  I didn't hear much from
western Europe this year but did manage to work TF4M and OZ7YY 
and 2 or 3 more.  No F or G or DL stations.  They must have been busy working
US stations as I heard the propagation was good to W7.  
I have a feeling that the low solar activity hurts European propagation from
here as much as it helps propagation to W7. RA4LW made it
into the log for the longest DX qso to the east.  Usually propagation stops at
sunrise but this year I put the last JA into the log a half hour 
after sunrise.    
Rig here is Elecraft K3 with diversity RX, Ten-Tec Titan amp with 1200 watts,
42 ft top loaded vertical for TX with 45 radials, a single 500 ft 
beverage for JA, US, and EU, and a 4 element broadside/endfire array for US
made out of 18 ft verticals and 4 each 25 ft radials and 4 each 
35 ft top hat wires. Hope to see you all in the CQ 160 CW contest. 73, Al
CE1/K7CA


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