[SCCC] N6PE ARRL 160

[Michael Tope]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rick darwicki" <n6pe at yahoo.com>

> 2007 ARRL 160 METER CONTEST
> Call used: N6PE Location: ORG
> Category: Single Op Single Band Mode: CW Power: High
> Hours of Operation: 15:35
> TOTAL 375  Qs 72 Sections 7 countries  =  61,146 Points
> Club or Team Name: SCCC
>
> Comments:
>
> The rain got into my multi-turn loop so it didn't work the first night, I 
> fixed it but was too tired to work much athe second night.
>
> 160 is like golf, no matter how bad it is something brings you back. RW0 
> answering my whimpy CQ, HL trying to get thru over my noise and working 2 
> new ones as an example.
>
> The weird CW was from running NA on Windows XP. The clock kept losing time 
> so I was rebooting every 15 mins if calling CQ. (known problem thanks Doug 
> N6RT). For the second night I put the rig on a DOS laptop and it went a 
> lot better.
>
> There didn't seem to be as much DX on this year as past years. About a 
> week ago I heard many downtown EU stations, but none in the contest.
>


> Only 45 to go for DXCC hi hi with is little antenna and my high noise, I 
> may not make it.
>

Rick,

Its been about 10 years since I made my first 160 QSO from the West Coast. 
It's taken that long to work 100 countries and that includes 1 trip with a 
portable KW setup to the Salton Sea for the CQ 160 CW, 1 trip to Koehn dry 
lake for the CQ 160 CW, and two trips to the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed (Stew 
Perry TBDC and CQ WW CW).

It can be done. I know two guys on city lots as small as mine in Los Angeles 
that are each pushing 140 countries.

Mental instability is a good prerequisite, but if you don't start out that 
way you will pick it up along the way :-)

Good luck!!

Mike, W4EF

P.S. I think I am going to build a ten-meter antenna now

> Thanks to all for the repeats.
>
> 73, Rick