[3830] ARRL 160 N0JK Single Op LP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2020

Call: N0JK
Operator(s): N0JK
Station: N0JK

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

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 152  Sections = 50  Countries = 3  Total Score = 16,642

Club: 

Comments:

I am a frontline Healthcare worker (ER doc) and have been extra busy due to the
Covid Pandemic this fall. So only have only 6 Meters up, no HF. Have used the
rain gutters in the past to get on 160, so thought would attach a wire to the
gutter and try it to hand out a couple of contacts with my old TS-850. Like
K7BG, I found rain gutters not very effective. Noisy on receive and a weak
transmitted signal. Before going into work Friday I attached a 50 foot wire to
the top of the rain gutter and ran it over to a tree to hopefully improve it.
Kind of like a poor inverted L. After getting home Friday evening, I checked the
antenna. Lots of strong signals and the SWR was 1.2 - 1 without a tuner at 1.830
MHz. First station I called - K5NA - came right back. Then W0UO, NQ6N, N8OO...
Was going to go to bed, but stayed up, kept tuning and making contacts. Some DX
including XE2X, Stan, ZF5T and a loud patient C6AGU made it in the log! I found
most people heard me the first or second call - or not at all. The visual
display on the TS-850 went out for a while. Worked K7RAT, and the radio display
came back on ! West Coast seemed difficult, only California worked was NI6W LAX.
 Heard WP3 and KP2. The rain gutter/wire antenna worked far better than
anticipated. Instead of a couple of contacts, made over 150 !


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