[3830] ARRL 160 N7GP(N5IA) Single Op HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: N7GP
Operator(s): N5IA
Station: N7GP

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: AZ - DM52
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Remote Operation

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 1118  Sections = 80  Countries = 19  Total Score = 234,135

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

This event produced text book results for this QTH during this portion of the
sunspot cycle.  It was a tale of two nights.  I compare my outing to the
previous year to provide a measurement of my station improvements and operating
vs the band conditions.

The first night was above average.  I started at the bell and had 71 Qs in the
log before the sun dropped behind the western horizon.  Not bad.

I worked WAS by 0600 and lacked only MB, NL, NT and PR for all sections at the
end of the night.  I had two less Q's at that time vs last year.  

I had a brief 30 minute opening to a portion of EU shortly before EU sunrise. 
Signals were good strength, but not many of them.  The opening to JA was quite
poor with only 15 contacts from the Land of the Rising Sun.  Al sounded great
from summertime Chile.

Night two could be described as a 'normal' one for this part of the cycle.  No
EU heard or worked.  Only two mults added by MB and PJ2 calling in.  For both
nights I missed logging only one mult that I should have had.  Thanks guys, I
really needed those two.

I was called by a weak SA station on my long established run frequency and had
the two letters of the suffix while struggling to get the prefix. The contact
was poached by a well known southeastern US station who then continued CQing on
the frequency after the poach job.  To put it mildly, I was NOT impressed!

No JAs at all the 2nd night.  This was the first night in many years that JA
was not worked on a given contest night.  Last year yielded 77; this year 15
total.

On the domestic side, I worked at least 2 stations in every Section worked with
the exception of MB.  The most Qs from any given Section was 53 from that hotbed
of 160 Meter contesting, Minnesota.  I suppose all of that activity helps to
keep the frozen north not so frozen.  Thanks for all the MN contacts.

I finished night two with 60 less Qs than last year and one less mult.  The
final three hours were very poor with only 13, 11, & 13 Qs added to the
log.  Consequently, the total claimed score is 32,000 points less than 2012. 
Come on sunspot minimum.  I hope to live long enough to experience one more
good cycle bottom.

As they say at the end of the Looney Tunes, "That's all Folks"!!!

73 de Milt, N5IA, op at N7GP.  CU all in the SPDC at the end of the month.


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