[CCF] ARRL 160 OH6MW SO Unlimited HP

[Ari Vepsäläinen]

Oli tosiaan poikkeuksellinen keli topbandilla, mutta olisi voinut olla 
vielä vähän parempi yöaikaan. Päiväkeliltä on vaikea toivoa kohtuudella 
enää enempää 160m:llä, aktiviteettiä ehkä lisää Alaskaan ja Albertaan. 
Keskipäivän west coast-keleillä piti kokeilla kuulevatko miten hyvin 
OH-signaalia ja yllättävän hyvin kuulivat. Lisää radiokeliä, lisää 
teippiä 160m antenneihin tai isompi remontti jossakin vaiheessa.

73 Ari OH6MW OG7A

webform at b4h.net kirjoitti 9.12.2019 klo 23:26:
>                      ARRL 160-Meter Contest - 2019
>
> Call: OH6MW
> Operator(s): OH6MW
> Station: OH6MW
>
> Class: SO Unlimited HP
> QTH: kp20
> Operating Time (hrs): 9
>
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 98  Sections = 46  Countries = 0  Total Score = 9,016
>
> Club: Contest Club Finland
>
> Comments:
>
> Different and special propagation this time. Band was open to NA most of the
> time, even during the daytime. At nighttime it was more like normal propagation,
> except that I haven't ever heard and worked so many ARRL sections of California
> on 160m. Very long qsb all the time.
>
> Huge differences in signal strengths. Some NA stations were 599, but 95% were
> 339. Most of NA stations heard EU very well, few had many EU stations calling
> but couldn't hear them at all.
>
> Daytime propagation was something special. Normally we could have something like
> this in the end of December or in January. I guess it is not very usual  to have
> this kind of propagation so early in December and many days in a row. KL7SB,
> VE6BBP, VE7's and many others loud and clear at noon, 4 hours after sunrise. At
> the same time you could hear VU2 and JA3YBK, JA5DQH, JH2FXK, RT0F etc. At noon,
> 160m, broad daylight. JA big guns 599. It was amazing, I even had to try with
> some west coast stations that do they copy me. Made some daytime qsos with
> another callsign because I had worked them already during the morning grayline.
> They heard and heard EU easily. Some stations around here copied W6 and KH6 at
> daytime, I couldn't copy them well enough to make daytime qsos.
>
> A little bit better NA propagation would have been super. I had only one longer
> run, 10 qsos in 12 minutes at Saturday morning grayline, most of the other qsos
> made s&p. More stations called but sri no copy. Few dbs more propagation
> could have opened hundreds of contacts. Wishing this kind of propagation for the
> cq 160 cw.
>
> TX: 2 phased verticals + 1,5kw , RX: hi-z 4. Both antennas have space for
> improvement and fixing at least.
>
> Tnx qsos, 73
> de Ari OH6MW OG7A
>
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