[NCC] Fw: CQ160 CW W1NN Single Op LP

[Hal Offutt]

Worked quite a few members.  It's always interesting to see how many calls 
you work on this band that you never hear on other bands.

It was a pleasant surprise to hear Tim in VP2V.  Tim sure knows how to 
handle a pileup!  Too bad that PZ1 couldn't take a few lessons from Tim.

Hope to work a lot of members in the Sprint this Saturday.

73, Hal W1NN


                CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 547  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 14  Total Score = 85,224

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

A part-time effort.  Due to the poor wx, I was not able to make the 
improvements
to my antennas that I had planned, so I was using the same old dipole at an
average height of about 40 feet.  Participation seemed down.  Two or three
years ago I made over 1,000 contacts in this contest, but I don't see how I
could have done that this year even had I operated full-time.  Static, I 
assume
from the snow, was terrible.  Using the 80 meter dipole that was on the 
ground
for receive helped a lot with EU.  (I accidentally called K1AR with this
antenna and actually worked him!  Good ears, John.)  Some signals from EU 
were
pretty strong here but most of them couldn't hear me.  The west coast was 
quite
loud and quite a few of them even called me.

I worked 46 states, missing only MT and ND.  No VE4, VE5 or VE7 heard, but
worked two VE6 stations.  Countries worked:  FM, KP2, KP4, XE, V3, VP2V, ZF,
PJ2, CT, OK, DL, G.

73, Hal W1NN