Topband: CQ160M contest last year and this year

[Doug Grant]

I was looking over last year's results to get in the mood for next weekend.
Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, must have been in the area because
limericks began flowing.

Here you go...if you aren't mentioned, perhaps you will make the
post-contest version...

73,

Doug K1DG
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Last year ZM and LZ went to JT
To operate in frozen Zone 23
K3JO stayed home
He had plans of his own
He used Krassy’s call and won the country!

In Europe where signals were wall-to-wall
Working weak DX was just no fun at all
While the band was a wreck
The top gun was a Czech
And OK6K was his call.

The winner up Canada-way
Was John Sluymer, VE3EJ.
His vertical beam
Is a Top-Bander’s dream
So work him again this year, eh?

Last year’s World CW winnah
DL5AXX on Madeira
It was quiet as can be
There in Zone 33
If you called him he’d certainly hear ya.

World Combined winner last year was Stan
If you worked ZF, Stan was the man.
Doesn’t matter which mode
He does phone, he does code
And makes big scores from down on Grand Cayman

John Crovelli and his multiop team
Use a big tower to hold their wire beam
All night and all day
>From Barnegat Bay
They never seem to run out of steam

QRP on one sixty? You’re kidding me.
That’s a clear case of radio misery
Trying to cut through the clutter
With a little 5-watter
Last year’s World winner was LY5E.

K3ZM’s place down at the shore
Sports quarter-wave verticals – four!
His signal’s so loud
That he draws quite a crowd.
Beating him is the thing that I aim for

That other ZM, (VY2)
Has waterfront verticals too
He’ll score very high
Up there on PEI
He might win code and SSB too.

There’s AA1K down in Delaware
That’s a state that is otherwise very rare
Though he’s not on the coast,
He hears better than most
With receiving antennas aimed everywhere

Remote to KM on Cape Cod
W1UE cuts a swath broad
He sure likes to run
And chase spots for more fun
His competitors knows they are scrod

“I too like remote” Bill Straw confesses
(K1A op KO7SS)
At home he’ll remain
But he’ll transmit from Maine
And have single-op assisted success

And there’s Victor Kean K1LT
Whose receive array’s all DSP
>From the East to the West
He tunes them in best
Can he win from Ohio? We’ll see.

And of course there’s big gun Tree Tyree
In the northwestern part of Zone 3
When his sun’s coming up
He’ll be working Europe
And his score will be something to see.

I’ll be on the Maine Island of Long
At the 22z starting gong
I’ll drive up from Derry
Ride the Casco Bay Ferry
And have fun ‘cuz my signal’s so strong