[3830] ARRL 160 N7KU(NJ6D) SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2022

Call: N7KU
Operator(s): NJ6D
Station: N7KU

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Arizona
Operating Time (hrs): 10:36

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 237  Sections = 66  Countries = 5  Total Score = 35,358

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

First time doing ARRL 160m contest.  Station: Inverted Vee with apex at 70ft;
Ft1000MP-V + ACOM 2100; Beverage #1 500ft to NW and #2 450ft to NE.

The inverted vee went up Friday morning before the contest started.  The
Beverage antennas heard many more stations than I could work - an inverted vee
was the wrong antenna for this contest, but it went up fast.  Improvements to
160m antenna coming.

Propagation was interesting.  I could her the d-layer fade away from east to
west each afternoon/evening.  The NE Beverage would start hearing station 1-3
hours before I could working them with the inverted vee.  I think the inverted
vee was being affected by the d-layer overhead while the Beverage was getting
underneath.  Slow deep QSB prevalent on many distant signals.  Northeast seemed
to be a dead zone from here with my suite of antennas.  The secondly was slow to
have decent propagation here.

As always, good fun.


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