[3830] ARRL 160 K1TN Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: K1TN
Operator(s): K1TN
Station: K1TN

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Wisconsin
Operating Time (hrs): 13.5

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 625  Sections = 71  Countries = 8  Total Score = 100,646

Club: 

Comments:

Whew. Five major contests in the last six weeks. This has taken a toll on me.

My antenna: 110-foot horizontal wire, 35 feet above ground, split and fed in
the center with twin lead, twin lead twisted together at ground level. That is,
a random wire antenna. MFJ 998 auto tuner by a kitchen window. 100 feet of coax
from the radio room. (No, the house isn't 100 feet long; I had a spare 100-foot
piece of RG-213.) Two elevated 1/4 wave radials. 

I am going to leave this antenna as it is and use it next weekend in the 10
Meter Contest, in addition to my small E/W Sterba curtain.

Elecraft K3, Ameritron ALS-600 amp running 300-400 watts, QSK, NA software. 

Missed WCF, LAX, SB, SDG, SJV, NT, AK, PR, VI. Conditions to the Left Coast
were miserable on Friday night, better on Saturday but spotty. Heard but not
worked: SJV and PR. 

Actually worked GW3YDX and F5NTV. Got two Hawaii (KH6LC and ZM) but missed KL7
to finish 6BWAS LotW in one year here. Please QSL to LotW. Thanks. Maybe after
working half a dozen (more) WV, one will use LotW.

In a major role reversal for me, this effort was entirely CQing except for a
few tuning excursions to look for multipliers. 

No RX antenna. I doubt I missed much as a result. Only two or three callers
were so weak I couldn't pull them out (thank you K3).

I built the antenna last Monday when the ground was mostly free of snow. It was
cold, about 20 deg F, but seems to have been worth the effort. I thought a
forecasted snow storm Saturday night would quash any operating. It turned out
to be a sleet storm and not make much noise.

Jim Cain
At The K1TN Superstation
Northern Wisconsin


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