Steve:
I agree that band conditions were not nearly as good last night as they were
Friday night.
I did mostly cq ing last night, and there were many times when I had to call
CQ quite a few times before getting a return call. It was not that way
Friday evening, whenever I did the CQ strategy.
I may play in the SSB contest later in February, but I don't tend to do as
well on the upper portion of 160 meters. My half-sloper doesn't tune up
there, and even though my Cobra ultra-lite senior will tune on the higher
parts of 160, it doesn't seem to perform quite as well as the sloper does on
the CW end.
Will just see, I guess.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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Subject: Re: KB8TYJ CQ 160-meter CW Contest Update
Tom,
Great job. I finished with 180, mostly S and P, although I did call
CQ for about an hour this morning to try and pad the log. I didn't
find the band to be as good last night. Some of the stations that were
loud on Friday night were way down at about the same time Saturday
night. I did spend some time last night playing in the VHF contest
which wasn't very productive.
On 160, I did work KP2 last night and HK1 this morning. Sorry you
couldn't get the 4v from Haiti. I think it was the first time I had
ever heard them on 160, and I was happy to get him in the log.
I think the SSB version of this test runs at the end of Feb. Hope to see
you then.
73, Steve KW3A
On 1/31/2016 4:27 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
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> Well, I had a few hours last night, so put some more time in on the CQ
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> I made an additional 160 contacts, for a final total of 290 qsos.
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> A few milestones of the evening included working AC6DD from California
> at around 11 p.m. Eastern; working two stations in Alberta, Canada;
> working one station from Prince Edward Island, Canada; and working
> XE2X from Mexico. I heard Haiti very late in the evening, but
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> I was rather happy with my 290 QSO total, but it didn't quite break my
> record of 304 QSOS in the same contest back in January of 2013.
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI
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