[CQ-Contest] [SMC] ARRL 160M Contest stories wanted

[somata90924 at mypacks.net]

CONDITIONS WERE GOOD FOR ME, I WORKED as many staions as i could hear, this year I DID NOT have a beverage up for stateside, as in previous years, I found the operators to be very friendly and accomondating.  Had trouble with eu stations (LOUD) wanting a qso, which i did give them, breaking any usa contacts.  Thrills were working Pacific stations at 579.....loud.... no problems......see u all next year.  ANTENA HERE IS INVERTED V AT 100FEET.

joe ZF2AH

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Jonathan L. Rosner" <rosner at hep.uchicago.edu>
>Sent: Dec 15, 2009 2:28 PM
>To: K9AY <k9ay at k9ay.com>
>Cc: smc at w9smc.com, topband at contesting.com, secc at contesting.com, cq-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] [SMC] ARRL 160M Contest stories wanted
>
>On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, K9AY wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for interesting stories for the writeup of the ARRL 160M 
>> contest. I'll bet the stories are as good as the conditions!
>
>I was inspired by Eric's call for QRP entries to see how QRP would play.
>As a test, I went on 160 the night before the contest and managed to
>work SV3RF with 5 watts.  As our noise level is S9 here in the city,
>conditions must have been exceptional that night, and he must have some
>great RX capability.
>
>There was no EU DX to be had here during the contest, but persistence
>paid off with a couple of Caribbean mults and several ones in the US.
>The total of 386 Q's and 65 mults is my best QRP effort on any 160
>contest.  The only way I can think of doing better would be to
>operate longer than the 13:45 hours I put in.
>
>73,
>Jon     WO9S
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