[LCC] ARRL 160m CW contest

[marsh at ka5m.net]

I operated a while Friday night and had fun. Conditions were good, the band noise was lower than usual for me, and everything was working. 

 

Saturday night, not so much. When I turned on the computer Windows 10 decided to do a major update which took forever, and afterwards WriteLog would not work right. Also my SWR was way up from Friday night. I shut everything down and found something else to do.

 

Today, with help from AA5AU, I got WriteLog working again. It was easy – when you know what to do.  I’ll check out the 160M antenna later, when the weather is warmer than 40 deg F, dry, and the wind not blowing.

 

73,

Marsh, KA5M

 

 

From: LCC [mailto:lcc-bounces at louisianacontestclub.org] On Behalf Of Steve Lott
Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 9:43 AM
To: Contest Club Louisiana <LCC at louisianacontestclub.org>
Subject: [LCC] ARRL 160m CW contest

 

It was nice to get on even though it was part time and with not much of an antenna for transmit

 

Using just a slopper and no radials under it

hung on a tilt over device that looks like something out of Junk Yard Wars

 

176 Q's

 

Goal was to work all 50 states on the 160 meter band from the new QTH

Missed KL7, CT, ID, OR and South Carolina !

 

Worked Ted KN5O

and he had one of the better signals

as compared to others from The Ark-La-Tex

 

Worked N8OO, but I think he sees me as still in LA

and did not hear my NTX report  :)

 

Some of the guys out west (Oregon for one)

had really big signals but were not hearing the masses that were calling them

 

Looked for AA5AU, KA5M and others but missed ya all

 

cheers!

Steve

 

​  Name : Steve

          Address : 125 Contest Lane

   City/State/Zip : Ben Franklin  TX  75415

          Country : USA

 

     ARRL Section : NTX

        Club/Team : Louisiana Contest Club

         Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.5995.0

 

        Band     QSOs     Pts  Sec  Pt/Q

         1.8     176     373   57   2.1

       Total     176     373   57   2.1

 

 

            Score : 21,261​

 


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