[3830] CQ160 CW W1DYJ Single Op Assisted LP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: W1DYJ
Operator(s): W1DYJ
Station: W1DYJ

Class: Single Op Assisted LP
QTH: ME
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 193  State/Prov = 39  Countries = 24  Total Score = 41,391

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Rig: TS-590S
Antenna: 160/80 HB trapped dipole at about 9M.
         (Part of my 160/80/30/20/10 fan dipole)
100% S&P  (no choice with my low/trapped dipole)
Logger: N3FJP's CQ WW 160 Contest Log Version 4.5 
BIC = 9 hours

What an interesting weekend!

I became interested in 160 a bit over a year ago.  Last 
January I loaded my 6M yagi (actually, the coax) to run 
this contest and garnered 74 Qs and 5600 points -- not 
much but a start.  Now I have a "real" antenna, although 
not a very efficient one.  But much better than last year!

Friday night started well and I thought I was going to 
do just fine.  Lots of new mults and the band was 
reasonably quiet.  Unfortunately Saturday night was 
much noiser and I discovered the limitations of my low 
and shortened dipole. Hardly any new mults, and far fewer 
new ones.  Since I quadrupled my 2017 score Friday night, 
to 23K, I assumed I'd quadruple it again Saturday night 
and hit 100K.  Oh well -- at least I have 13 new 
countries toward DXCC.

And as a bonus, Saturday morning I completed 17M DXCC on 
FT8 for my 7th DXCC band.  160 is next, with 12M waiting 
for the sun to come back...

73 -- Larry -- W1DYJ


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