[SCCC] W6PH CQ 160 CW SOHP

[Drew Arnett]

"...got my neighbor kid to raise my AB-577 with the 160 antenna on it."

Kids these days...

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> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 17:55:23 -0800
> From: Kurt Pauer <w6ph73 at gmail.com>
> To: sccc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SCCC] W6PH CQ 160 CW SOHP
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>                   CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2022
>
> Call: W6PH
> Operator(s): W6PH
> Station: W6PH
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: Lone Pine CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 14.2
>
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 493  State/Prov = 53  Countries = 12  Total Score = 89,960
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> K3S Expert 1.3K
>
> Inductively loaded half sloper fed at 60 feet
>
> I have been away at our home QTH in NH all of January and arrived back Wednesday
> night.  I had originally planned to do the contest at the N6WIN super station
> but didn't have the time to drive down to Arizona.  I got my neighbor kid to
> raise my AB-577 with the 160 antenna on it.  I was just going to play around a
> little.
>
> Friday night had great conditions and I worked almost everyone I heard.  I quit
> at 10 pm after putting 320 contacts in the log.  I woke up at 4 am and went back
> out to the shack to see if there were any JA's coming through.  They were coming
> through very readable.  I worked a couple and then called CQ with about 24
> responding.  I have never had a JA answer my CQ on 160.  It was very exciting
> and got more exciting when VK6T answered my CQ.  It was a lot of fun.
>
> I decided to get back on the air on Saturday night figuring it would be another
> great night.  The conditions had changed greatly and it was tough to work
> stations to the east.  I stuck with it until 11:30 pm and quit when I couldn't
> find any new stations as I swept the band nor get any answers to CQ's.
>
> I missed ME although I heard a couple ME stations working Europeans.  Those
> European contacts were worth 5 US contacts for them.  They had little interest
> in working puny signals from the west coast.  I spent eight hours to add 140
> more contacts to my total.  I didn't even bother to go back out to the shack
> Sunday morning.
>
> Most of my mults were Caribbean. Despite these comments it was a lot of fun. You
> just don't know how the propagation will be from one night to the next on 160.
>
> 73, Kurt W6PH
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