[3830] TBDC VE3MGY Single Op QRP

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                    Stew Perry Topband Challenge

Call: VE3MGY
Operator(s): VE3MGY
Station: VE3MGY

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: Ontario
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 218  Total Score = 1,005

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Comments:

It was the last test of the new antenna till the CQ160 in January and February
and everything seemed to work very well and I had a blast as always.

QRN was very good all night at around just S0 - S2 on the vertical BUT the band
just seemed "noisey". I kept checking the S meter all night and "visually" the
band was quiet but it always "sounded" noiser than it "looked". I never would
have mentioned it here until I read some posts of other TBer's saying the same
thing. 

I heard ( but didn't work ) EU and did my best to snag PJ2T but I was just
wasn't making the trip with 5 watts. My longest "DX" was ~3700 km into
California.

By EU sunrise NA seemed to go QRT and S&Ping yielded nothing new as did CQing
so I called it a night as I had achieved my goal anyway. However not long after
hitting the rack at around 1000Z I woke up to go to the head and just couldn't
go back to sleep knowing the contest was still on sooo... I made a pot of
coffee and started turning on the gear...  

The funniest moment in this - or any 160 contest to date - had to be when I was
CQing and I heard nothing for maybe 10 minutes and then I got a very weak
station that came back to me and was exactly zero beated on my QRG. I copied
"YP8" and lost it in the noise. QRZ I sent!! AGN AGN I said!! Was it DX?? A
rare mult?? A new 160 DXCC?? Then the station came back to me - this time on
the QSB wave peak at S5 without QSB. "YP8 YP8" he sent and then a 5 second
tone..... What the ... For the Love of... And if your wondering - NO I didn't
long the fish beacon!! LOL. But I did have a really good chuckle over it. Like
they say timing IS everything... 

Thanks for all the QSO's and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 


73,
Brian
VE3MGY


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