[3830] CQ160 SSB W1XX Single Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB - 2019

Call: W1XX
Operator(s): W1XX
Station: W1XX

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 799  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 43  Total Score = 227,712

Club: CT RI Contest Group

Comments:

Conditions were surely not the greatest.  Propagation would shift from short to
long and back again in an eyelash. EUs would call in for a few contacts with
decent signals only to disappear back to the usual hi volume VA and PA callers.
Happened both nights.  There also seemed to be a lack of the usual big gun EUs
QRV. SA/CA/Caribe was also in somewhat short supply. LU usually makes it into
the log.  Not this time. 

I stayed up through the graveyard shift with short breaks both nights.  Shudda
slept 3 - 5 AM.  Too slow and too wiped out.  I gave up an hour before SR on
Sunday just 10 Qs short of 800. After sleeping all day Sunday, I gave the last
hour a shot to make 800.  Came up one short.

S/P mults were down this year.  Missed the usual easy ones:  MT, NV, SD (seems
like this was a tuff one this year), and BC.  After missing KH6 last year, KH7XS
was in there with a great signal.  Highlight was working Dave, ZL2OK, who was
persistent in responding to my several "last letter kilowatt"
transmissions.

On a somewhat darker note, overheard an exchange by a contester directing
disparaging remarks to a ragchewing net that apparently meets 365 days a year. 
The NCS did not reply in kind.  It reflects badly on contesting. I know some
nets feel they have a God-given right to "their" frequency. But the
smart thing to do here was find another frequency to CQ rather than engage in
war.  I tuned off.

Let's see more daily Top Band DXing like the beacon AA1K ! ! 
 off.


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