[3830] TBDC N5IA Single Op HP

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Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Spring

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

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM52 -- AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Remote Operation

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 334  Total Score = 2,164

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

Usually by the time of the CQ 160 SSB 'test at the end of February T-Storms and
QRN play havoc with efficient Top Band operations.  One day before this contest
a line of storms from the Gulf of Mexico heading north up along the Mississippi
River basin were generating large amounts of static preventing any low level
signals from being heard to the east from way out west.

Surprise, surprise, when the sun went down yesterday the band was clean as a
whistle.  So, for me, conditions were quite decent, atmospheric wise. 
Propagation was quite good to the USA east coast, but very light and sparse to
EU.

Thanks to IZ8JAI, EA3CX, IV3YYK, MD0CCE, IZ5MOQ, RA1AOB, IK4DRY, HA8BT, I3EVK,
8S0DX, GW3YDX, CT1EKY, and F6AOJ for answering my CQ and with some difficulty
making it into my log.

It was great to catch the T32CO DX-Pedition CQing and participating in the
contest.  Thanks to HC2AO, KH6AT and KH6ZM for calling in for double digit
points.

Around midnight local time the conditions changed.  The atmospherics made the
band noisy and signals from the west (Pacific) difficult to copy.

JH2FXK was the first JA to be logged at 0850.  VK6GX called at 1150 for my best
DX of the night.

No ZL, RA, HL or BU were heard.  The 2nd half of the night was LOOOOONG and
SLOOOOOW.  

At 1253 JA5BIN was the last JA logged, for a total of 20.  Not good but sure
better than nothing.  Thanks JA ops for being patient while I asked for repeats
of your grid designator.

Total DXCC worked = 17.

Thanks for all the contacts, and CU in the next one.

73 de Milt, N5IA


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