[3830] CQ160 SSB W5PR Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB

Call: W5PR
Operator(s): W5PR
Station: W5PR

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 27

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 788  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 31  Total Score = 167,076

Club: Texas DX Society

Comments:

I got everything working before the contest, but I have some noise source that
kept the meter over S-9 all the time on the vertical transmit antenna.  Since I
am on a small piece of property, it was transferred to the beverages.  The
northeast beverage was the least affected luckily, so I heard about 25 strong
Europeans.  I was surprised the Europeans were so easy to copy and the
stateside guys were, many times, much weaker.  I never was able to copy any
station on the vertical all weekend. The SE Beverage was the noidest by far.  I
think I transferred the noise from the power line close to the end of the SE
Beverage to the vertical where the Beverage passes close to the end of one of
the elevated radials.  Then the vertical reradiated the noise.  
It kind of reminded me of the first year I made a huge ground plane for 160 by
converting the 160 inverted V to radials and flying a plastic helium balloon
shaped like a wing to hold up the vertical portion of the antenna.  I attached
the balloon about 3 feet above the top of the vertical and the static charging
was huge and made a terrible noise on receive.  What an alligator I was!
The weekend before during ARRL CW, I worked 29 Europeans on the vertical.  I
noticed the noise then, but it went away before the contest.  
By the way, I found that power tool battery chargers left plugged in with no
battery inserted can be a significant source of noise that sounds like an
electric fence charger.

    NA     757     757    96.1
    SA       2       2     0.3
    EU      25      25     3.2
    AF       2       2     0.3
    OC       2       2     0.3

   C6       2       2
    CN       1       1
    CT       1       1
    CU       1       1
    D4       1       1
    DL       6       6
    E7       1       1
    EA       1       1
    EI       1       1
    FG       1       1
     G       1       1
    GW       1       1
    HA       1       1
    HB       2       2
    HC       1       1
    HI       1       1
     I       5       5
    J7       1       1
     K     702     702
   KH6       2       2
    KL       1       1
   KP2       1       1
   KP4       2       2
    OZ       1       1
   PJ2       1       1
    S5       1       1
    SV       1       1
    TI       2       2
   UA2       1       1
    V3       3       3
    VE      30      30
    XE      10      10
    ZF       1       1

QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band

 Hour      160    Total     Cumm    OffTime

D1-2200Z  15/6    15/6      15/6   
D1-2300Z  19/5    19/5      34/11  
D2-0000Z  39/13   39/13     73/24  
D2-0100Z  32/6    32/6     105/30  
D2-0200Z  35/7    35/7     140/37  
D2-0300Z  62/8    62/8     202/45  
D2-0400Z  44/5    44/5     246/50  
D2-0500Z  43/7    43/7     289/57  
D2-0600Z  64/11   64/11    353/68  
D2-0700Z  43/6    43/6     396/74  
D2-0800Z  25/3    25/3     421/77  
D2-0900Z  24/1    24/1     445/78  
D2-1000Z  20/0    20/0     465/78  
D2-1100Z  29/0    29/0     494/78  
D2-1200Z  25/0    25/0     519/78      5
D2-1300Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-1400Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-1500Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-1600Z  --+--    0/0     519/78     60
D2-1700Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-1800Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-1900Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-2000Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-2100Z    -      0/0     519/78     60
D2-2200Z   1/0     1/0     520/78     38
D2-2300Z   8/0     8/0     528/78     31
D3-0000Z  23/1    23/1     551/79  
D3-0100Z  24/1    24/1     575/80  
D3-0200Z  40/1    40/1     615/81  
D3-0300Z  38/1    38/1     653/82  
D3-0400Z  32/0    32/0     685/82  
D3-0500Z  31/1    31/1     716/83  
D3-0600Z  15/0    15/0     731/83  
D3-0700Z  20/1    20/1     751/84      1
D3-0800Z  --+--    0/0     751/84     60
D3-0900Z    -      0/0     751/84     60
D3-1000Z  17/0    17/0     768/84      8
D3-1100Z  11/0    11/0     779/84  
D3-1200Z   8/0     8/0     787/84  
D3-1300Z   1/0     1/0     788/84  

Total:   788/84


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