[3830] CQ160 CW K9YC Single Op LP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 16.75

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 440  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 10  Total Score = 70,119

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

K3, 86 ft Tee vertical, lotsa radials, 2 reversible DXE 
Beverages. 

This was a low power, limited time effort, in protest 
of the lousy scoring rules for this contest that make 
almost anyone outside the Atlantic basin and Europe 
uncompetitive. 

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I could work with 
100 watts. The big advantage of high power is RATE -- you 
can work stations who can't hear as well, and you spend 
less time waiting for optimum conditions to be able to work 
them. I did a lot more S&P than with high power, but another 
surprise was that I could also run. Even running high power, 
I often have east coast guys with S8 signals who can't hear 
CQing on top of me. 

Conditions to NA were pretty good, and I could work about 
85% of what I could hear. Best DX were 11 JA, UA0. Also 
worked KV4FZ, VP9, 2-C6, and ZF. N1MM thinks there are 90 
zone 5 Qs in the log. Missed only SD for WAS, and never 
heard an SD station. W1OP is tough to work with 1.5kW, no 
chance at all with 100 W. He must have bad noise or no RX 
antenna. Thanks to W1XX -- not loud, but he heard my first 
call! 

73,

Jim K9YC


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