[SCCC] [ARRL 160 K6NR Single Op HP

[Michael Tope]

Great score, Dana. Nice to see some big numbers coming out of
the Southern California 160 meter black hole. 

The OH2 is probably real. I've heard weird "spotlight" openings 
to Northern Europe from here where the SM's and OH's will be 
real strong for short periods of time. I've had two aborted OH/SM 
contacts where the OH/SM stations came back to my call, gave me 
a 579 and sent their names all with perfect armchair Q5 signals (just 
like a good night on 20 meters) and then faded to nothing before I 
could finish my end of the exchange. 

Its too bad we didn't get Thursday nights conditions during the 
contest. I saw some spots that ON4UN was coming through to 
the west coast around his sunrise and WB6RSE worked a GM 
in the same timeframe from his city lot. CU1CB who was pounding 
in around 0800 peaking a true S9 and a few minutes later several 
strong JA's were coming through with big signals (very early for 
them to be exceeding my high noise level). 

Goofed around here a little. My main goal was to work 
J3/DL5AXX, but as luck would have it one of the base insulators 
in my antenna got wet and blew right in the middle of me sending 
him my exchange, so I don't know if he kept me in the log or not 
(I just sent 599 and then antenna died as I started sending LAX
- doh!!). 

So it goes.

73, Mike W4EF...................................





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dana Roode" <k6nr at arrl.net>
To: "SCCC Reflector" <sccc at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: [SCCC] [ARRL 160 K6NR Single Op HP


>                     ARRL 160-Meter Contest
> 
> Call: K6NR
> Operator(s): K6NR
> Station: K6NR
> 
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: ORG
> Operating Time (hrs): 20
> 
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 719  Sections = 77  Countries = 11  Total Score = 134,464
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Great contest as usual.  Didn't hear any Europe with one important 
> exception.  OH2BO called me while I was calling CQ Saturday night. I 
> don't hear much EU on 160 out here in Southern California, and this is 
> no doubt the first time a EU station called me instead of the other way 
> around.  Hope no one is pulling my leg.
> 
> 18 JAs in the log, conditions didn't seem quite as good as they could 
> have been.  I also did not hear any VE4, NL or PR station in the contest.
> 
> I worked the contest remotely the first night with a TS480 and my SGC 
> solid state AMP.  Controlling things over the Internet adds another 
> variable and the TS480 can't handle the strong signals.  It was a joy to 
> operate the second night locally at the station using my IC756 Pro II. 
> Could hear a lot better and could use my AL1200 to run a bit more power.
> 
> 73,  Dana
> 
> Station: 1300W to 48' Inverted L over 66 1/8 wave radials
>                (500W the first night)
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