Steve:

Well, I do think it was a good outing for me, especially given the limited
time I had to operate.

Wanted to operate more, but just ran out of energy around 10 or 11 p.m. each
evening.

I heard HI3CC from the Dominican Republic, but just couldn't work him after
several tries.

He was down at my noise level anyway.

I'm looking ahead now to future contests, and I guess the next big one is
the CQ WW SSB contest in early March.

May try to play a bit in the CQ WW 160-meter SSB contest later in February,
but with my antenna situation as it is, I don't seem to do nearly as well on
phone as I do on CW for that band. 

If I'm forgetting a major contest somewhere along the line, please let me
know.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 1:04 PM
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Subject: Re: CQ WW 160-meter CW Contest

Tom,


Sounds like you had a good outing this weekend.   I was on a little bit 
each evening, but didn't stay up  late either night.   Did about an hour 
early each morning.  Mostly S and P.   Put 235 in the log, with 38 
states, DC, 2 VE provinces and 2  DX.  I also worked the ZF2 and HI3CC. 
   Both the DX stations were  worked  between 1100 and 1130 UTC  Saturday.

Worked as far to the west as California, but never heard anything from
Europe.  I may have been on at the wrong time, or  just couldn't hear them
if they were there.

  The station and Writelog software worked just fine, although I did have a
change in the resonant point of the antenna due to snow Friday night.

73, Steve KW3A

On 1/25/2015 11:45 AM, Tom Behler wrote:
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> With babysitting grand-kids late Friday through yesterday, I didn't 
> have time to put a great effort in on the CQ WW 160-meter CW contest, 
> but I was at least able to do something.
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> I put in about 2 hours Friday evening, and about 4 hours last night, 
> and ended up making 190 contacts.  I'd say my effort was 70% S and P, 
> and 30% C Q ing.
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> I got as far west as Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and worked many 
> states throughout the eastern half of the US.  Perhaps my best contact 
> was ZF2DX from the Cayman Islands at about 10 p.m. Eastern last night.
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> I was running 100 watts with my W8AMZ 160-meter half sloper.
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> Wonder if anyone else was able to play in the contest?
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ:  Big Rapids, MI
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