[3830] CQ160 SSB K3ZM Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB

Call: K3ZM
Operator(s): K3ZM
Station: K3ZM

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Virginia
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1280  State/Prov = 57  Countries = 67  Total Score = 602,888

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Achieved the coveted WAB award (insider's version) by working nephew Patrick,
K6AAX; K2DM; and K1ZM.

This year's claimed score is 20% above my personal best, but others did better.
 My friends at K1LZ checked in before sunrise on Saturday and were significantly
ahead.  By the same time Sunday morning, they were up by 100K points.  Well
done, LZ units!  You DEMilish.  I expect some other big scores, as well.

Worked 115 EU's the first night, then even more on Saturday night.  Sunset
opening on Saturday to EU produced little.  Things picked up after midnight
zulu.  Total of 241 EU QSO's by the end.  Thanks to all you guys for calling
in.

Atmospheric noise cooperated enough so that few contacts were hindered. 
Perhaps some of the weakest stations were occasionally affected.  Lots of West
Coast contacts on the first night.

I actually was able to stay in the lower part of the band on Friday night. 
However, I had to move up to the nose-bleed section on Saturday night to run EU
as their sunrise approached.  That is where the majority of my EU contacts took
place.  I had to go all the way up to 1981.  While doing so, I passed many
substantive US stations above 1900 running EU.  I now call this part of the
band Club NT, named after our Contest Director, who encourages us to spread
out.  It certainly seems to be catching on.  Say - why don't we huddle up
around 1980 instead of always living down on 1820?  The antennas are 10%
smaller, it is farther from the AM Broadcast band, and the conditions are
closer to those of 80 meters.  Okay, just kidding.

About ten more countries than last year.  Missed SD, VE5, VO2 and the mystical
VE8 stuff.  Never worked GM3 or GI3.

Special thanks to the XYL for being such a good sport and letting me put up an
enormous tower that is not quite but almost directly in the way of the view of
the water.  I told her to think of it as a tall, slender tree, planted by the
arborists at Hudson Valley Towers.

73,

Peter  K3ZM


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