TopBand: 1998 Stew Perry

[Earl W Cunningham]

Last year Stew smiled on us and we had the best condx I ever experienced
in a contest on 160m.  I guess Stew decided to make the contest more
appropriate to its name this year -- a CHALLENGE!

I started at 0100 GMT with high hopes.  60 QSOs in my first hour wasn't
too bad, but it rapidly went downhill after that, hi.

As far as a challenge goes, the biggest challaenge for me was staying
awake in the wee hours fighting the boredom of the poor condx.  Twice I
fell asleep.

I worked all of the DX I heard, which wasn't much -- WP2, KH6, and four
JAs.

Final high-power score was 191 QSOs, 928 points.  Farthest DX was JH4UYB
in grid PM64 for 9321.963 km.

As a measure of how condx were, last year my average distance per QSO was
4174 km.  This year my average was only 2179 km per QSO.  I use the
following formula:

     Average distance per QSO = (points / qsos X 500) - 250 

73, de Earl, K6SE


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