[3830] ARRL 160 K3KU Single Op LP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest

Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 597  Sections = 68  Countries = 2  Total Score = 84,000

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Friday afternoon I got the station set up so I could get on right away Saturday
night.  My 200-ft dipole and TS-850SAT are happy with each other again (see my
article in PVRC Newsletter for December at
http://pvrc.org/Newsletters/Dec14%20final.pdf).  CT-DOS seemed to be talking to
the '850.  I figured I'd operate as long as I was having fun.

I started at 2330Z Saturday night.  As soon as the radio came on, there was
VE3CX calling CQ.  Hey -- ONN!  Got him!  That's one potentially tough Section
in the bag.  Good start!  (You can see my SS CW and Clean Sweep obsession
coming thru.)

I slid off a couple of KHz, found a little hole and called CQ. ("Small
signals don't need much room" -- K3KU, on SS CW 2002.)

Holy Moley!  14 QSOs in the first 4 minutes!  208 QSOs in first 109 minutes,
even including a few zero minutes when I got driven off my run freq.  I don't
remember if I did that well in CQ WW CW from PJ2CC (around 1980), operating 20M
with K4BAI. After that, I had five more runs of >20 QSOs; altogether, 340
QSOs in 213 minutes of running.

But, as Chad and Jeremy sang in 1964, "They say that all good things must
end some day...", and, sure enough, by 0530Z my newness had worn off.  I
had about 450 QSOs by then, so my last little-under six hours yielded only
about 150 QSOs, including a "run" of 14 in my last 23 minutes.

Nonetheless, I was so fired up that I kept going a lot longer than I had
expected I would.  "Maybe I can find some more California Sections!" 
Eh!  I got four, all together.  VE6BBP was my only Canadian west of Ontario. 
(When I checked my quote from SS CW 2002, above, I saw that he was my AB mult
back then.)  DX was PJ2T and ZF2AH (and CT thought that KP2M was a country,
rather than a Section).  The only EU I heard was a weak G4 who answered my CQ
(about 0730Z) -- too weak to copy; SRI OM, but thanks for trying.

I realized that my success here was geography-driven.  There are tons of
stations within a few hundred miles of me.  (I never heard so many SC!)  I
began to realize that a 160M 'Test must bite the bag from the West Coast.  I
checked with my home boy N6XI and he confirmed it, pointing to W7RN's fine
results (my only NV, of course).  Rather than feel sorry for my Western
friends, I'll quote their resident sage, N6TJ: "If you don't like your
location, move!"  :>)

I was almost disappointed when I had to QRT around 1130Z to get ready for a
community obligation.  If you had more fun that I did, then good for you!

73, and tnx for the QSOs.


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