[LCC] LCC Digest, Vol 98, Issue 4
Ted Saba
kn5o at bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 5 07:00:16 CST 2016
Steve, just now recovering from the contest.. Thanks for the 160 Q. I
think Chuck, NO5W, worked you. Must have been Sunday morning. Thanks to
all LCC members for the Qs.. My write up below...
73 Ted KN5O
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ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: KN5O
Operator(s): KN5O NO5W
Station: KN5O
Class: M/S HP
QTH: Covington, LA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 1002 Sections = 81 Countries = 26 Total Score = 226,305
Club: Louisiana Contest Club
Comments:
Started out Friday evening by myself. QRN was not too bad, but as the evening
progressed, it got worse. Thunderstorms in the Gulf of Mexico south of me
moved onshore and by Saturday morning, static crashes were 10-20 dB over S9.
At 4:30AM Saturday I had enough noise in the headset and went to get some
sleep. Had a DX Club luncheon to attend that day at noon.
When I got up Saturday late morning, I saw my 100ft 160M vertical antenna had
fallen out of the big pine tree that supported it (this was an omen).
Thankfully the hoisting rope was still in place. But everything was a tangled
mess and didn't have time to mess with it. Later that afternoon, Chuck, NO5W
and David, W5XU, helped me get it back up, albeit with some issues and SWR
problems. In retrospect, should have left it on the ground as the weather was
headed downhill as more storms approached.
Chuck, NO5W, operated most of Saturday night/Sunday morning. The QRN was
terrible, much worse than Saturday morning. Probably should have called it a
weekend, but he persevered. So our apologies to those who called but we did
not answer. We did our best under the circumstances.
Can't believe we missed NNY! I can well understand not getting NT VY1AAA. Saw
the spots, but would have been fruitless for us, as we couldn't hear him.
Congrats to those who got through.
Thanks to all who called for the Qs.
Ted KN5O
Chuck NO5W
FT-1000 Mark V
Alpha 8410
Transmit Ant: 100 ft #12 wire vertical with top hat/64-100 ft+ radials
Receive Ant: XMT Vertical or Hi-Z 8 circle (temporary 150 ft diameter)
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> 1. Re: ARRL 160m CW contest (K1DW at aol.com)
> 2. What I found in my mail box! (Roland Guidry)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 13:08:42 -0500
> From: K1DW at aol.com
> To: lottsphoto at gmail.com, aa5au at bellsouth.net
> Cc: LCC at louisianacontestclub.org
> Subject: Re: [LCC] ARRL 160m CW contest
> Message-ID: <a4d09.2fe9dd6b.4575b5aa at aol.com>
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> LCC et al,
>
> The weather always makes 160 M a crap shoot... 100 Qs at 100 watts with a
> puny antenna took lots of work. Was worried about Zeus sending a
> lightning bolt my way.
>
> Read posting on 3830scores and there is talk about both transmitting and
> copy antennas. The point is, to be good on 160 both antenna types are
> needed.
>
> Congratulations to KN5O with his Morris Bart antennas, "One call .. Thats
> all "
>
> Hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
>
> 73 CU in the next one .. de k1dw
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>
> In a message dated 12/4/2016 11:34:28 A.M. Central Standard Time,
> lottsphoto at gmail.com writes:
>
>
> Yupp Last night was really rough here
> played a bit this morning
> and managed to get Hawaii and a couple of others
> Even though my Goal was not met
> I had fun and now have on my long list to get a pair of decent 160m
> verticals
> with a nice ground plane ready for next year
>
>
> Found design for a radial laying tool to add to the tractor tools I have
> now I just have to get it built
>
>
> always a long list of things to do :)
>
>
> cheers to all of the LCC OPS !
>
>
> steve
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> _http://www.KG5VK.com_ (http://www.kg5vk.com/)
> My Ham Radio Friends
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Don Hill AA5AU <aa5au at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>
> I was in and out of the contest and only made 202 contacts. I was entered
> as HP Unlimited. Condx were excellent Friday night but the approaching
> storms made for rough copy last night and this morning.
> Don AA5AU
>
> From: LCC [mailto:lcc-bounces at lcc-bounces@<WBR>louisia] On Behalf Of Steve
> Lott
> Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2016 9:43 AM
> To: Contest Club Louisiana
> Subject: [LCC] ARRL 160m CW contest
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> It was nice to get on even though it was part time and with not much of an
> antenna for transmit
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>
> Using just a slopper and no radials under it
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> hung on a tilt over device that looks like something out of Junk Yard Wars
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> 176 Q's
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> Goal was to work all 50 states on the 160 meter band from the new QTH
>
> Missed KL7, CT, ID, OR and South Carolina !
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> Worked Ted KN5O
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> and he had one of the better signals
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> as compared to others from The Ark-La-Tex
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> Worked N8OO, but I think he sees me as still in LA
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> and did not hear my NTX report :)
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> Some of the guys out west (Oregon for one)
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> had really big signals but were not hearing the masses that were calling
> them
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> Looked for AA5AU, KA5M and others but missed ya all
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> cheers!
>
> Steve
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>
> ? Name : Steve
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> Address : 125 Contest Lane
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> City/State/Zip : Ben Franklin TX 75415
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> Country : USA
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> ARRL Section : NTX
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> Club/Team : Louisiana Contest Club
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> Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.5995.0
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> Band QSOs Pts Sec Pt/Q
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> 1.8 176 373 57 2.1
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> Total 176 373 57 2.1
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> Score : 21,261?
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> _http://www.KG5VK.com_ (http://www.kg5vk.com/)
> My Ham Radio Friends
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> From: "Roland Guidry" <rguidry at na5q.us>
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> I didn't realize I had done well enough to follow my score. I was using my
> KX3 at the time!
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> Nice surprise..
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> 73, Roland NA5Q
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