[3830] ARRL 160 K3WJV SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2021

Call: K3WJV
Operator(s): K3WJV
Station: K3WJV

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: EPA
Operating Time (hrs): 7.5

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 402  Sections = 71  Countries = 4  Total Score = 61,200

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Big change from the last 2 years.  800 Q's in 2020 and 926 in 2019.  i don't
know how long I would have wound up operating but after running 23 Q's my swr
started varying and seemed to climb the longer I was xmitting.  I think its due
to the balun getting overheated after several years of using this crappy 160
antenna.  Just because the tuner in my amp or the external tuner I used to use
lets me move around a little it does nothing to lower the swr the balun sees.

Hopefully next year I will be using something like an inverted L.  This antenna
has great difficulty working dx especially EU.  I can usually work KH6 and maybe
a European or two if I call around their sunrise.  But the reason I put this
shortened antenna up in the first place was to get on 160 and make a few mults
in the CQWW & ARRL dx tests and it has done its job for that.

Rural wooded location 1255ft ASL

K4 & Acom 2000a
K3/P3 & KPA1500

2el K4KIO 5 band Hexbeam @30ft  G-450A rotor & Green Heron controller
40m/80m/short 160(traps) Inv vees @ 40ft
Rx ant - 200ft NE/SW kd9sv rbog

SO2R(2 keyboard) >> TopTen DxDoubler-Band Aides-relays-W2VJN stubs
VA6AM triplexer with high power BPF's 10-20mtrs       
N1MM+ contest logger & DxLab master logger


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