[3830] ARRL 160 K7KU(K0KR) Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: K7KU
Operator(s): K0KR
Station: K7KU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Wyoming
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1100  Sections = 77  Countries = 8  Total Score = 191,080

Club: 

Comments:

I thank each of you who managed to get some 160m RF into the frozen tundra of
central WY (where the temp dropped to minus 18F during the contest).  I made a
special effort to copy stations whose signals rose, however fleetingly, above
the primordial ooze of poor conditions.  QSB was sometimes fast enough to
interrupt copy in the midst of a single CW character.  

Poor conditions, did I say?  Depended very much upon where one was, I suppose. 
It was an especially tough event for W6/W7 this year.  Anyone remember 2009,
when K7RAT/N6TR scored a remarkable 351K all the way from the west coast?  No
W6/W7 score, I dare say, will come close this year.  Didn't hear a peep from
EU, even with a 600-foot Beverage, bearing 32 degrees, that ordinarily hears EU
exceptionally well.  As is so often true, it was a huge plus to be farther
south, farther east, or both, this year.

Special thanks go to N4ZR and W1WBB for states no. 49 and 50, respectively. 
WAS on 160m in a single weekend?  No big deal from some areas perhaps, but a
genuine thrill from W7.  YAY!

There was a super-abundance of WY participation this year.  I myself logged
K9DR, W6KGP, KO7X, N7NG, WY7FD, and WC7S, in that order.  Congratulations,
gents, on a splendid turn out for the state.

Semi-serious effort, in that I took at least four hours off during the wee
hours of each of the two nights.


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