[3830] CQ160 CW K9YC Single Op Assisted QRP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: K9YC
Operator(s): K9YC
Station: K9YC

Class: Single Op Assisted QRP
QTH: SCV
Operating Time (hrs): 6.5

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 112  State/Prov = 43  Countries = 4  Total Score = 13,301

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

In my ongoing protest of scoring rules that make any serious operation in this
contest from the west coast a waste of time, I ran QRP, with the objective of
making WAS. I chose my operating hours during those brief periods when stations
I wanted to work might actually be listening in my direction. 

QRP teaches one a lot about propagation, and about which of those stations on
the band with big signals are alligators, and which have put serious effort
into receiving. At 1.5kW, I can work some stations on the east coast during the
evening hours. Running 5W, I've got to catch the propagation peaks, AND the
times when they're listening west. 

When you're running QRP, it's the other guy who is doing the heavy lifting,
both with careful, patient listening during the QSO, and before the QSO by
building a decent RX system and chasing down and killing RF noise. Among the
guys who did that Sunday morning were PJ2T, 6Y3M, AA1K, K1DG, W1MK, 6Y3M,
VE2OJ, W2GD, K4LTA, VE3NE, VE3CX, W1XX, NQ4I, KB1W, N3IQ, VY2ZM, K1LZ, W4SVO,
N1LN, K1LT, W4RYW, W2XL, K0DI, NR4M, and NO3M. Thanks to their patience and
their good ears, my WAS count is up to 44. I'm missing WV, SC, MS, CT, VT, and
KY. 

And it sure would be nice if W6BH and AC6DD would clean up their signals, which
were often wiping out stations with their clicky, phase-noise filled sidebands.


73, Jim K9YC


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