[CVCC] CVCC ARRL 160 - 2013

Mon Dec 9 17:54:06 EST 2013

Finally got power/internet back.   Had the generator running last night and
today but that didn't help Comcast any.
Friday night here was in the dumps.  So much so, I just quit for a couple of
hours and went in and sat with Debbie to watch TV with her.  Couldn't stay
up late as I had to get up early.   I think it was the rain and higher noise
levels because of it.  Couldn't hear squat.  The usual pipeline into MN
wasn't there - 3 Qs I think.  Almost no DX and no west coast.  Way down on
both Q's (~150) and Mults (~45) Friday.  Saturday, after I got home from a
local mission project, I decided to try out a ~700 ft beverage on the ground
this time as I didn't have enough daylight left to do otherwise.  Finished
putting it together and laying it more or less down (to darn many briars in
the woods!) just about dusk.  Found things much better Saturday evening, but
not like I remember last year.   Quite a few DX stations just couldn't hear
me this time, though I was able to bust mini-pileups on the good mults in
the US with ease, so was kinda mixed.   Didn't expect to exceed my
multiplier total from last year since I had such a poor start, but things
started to fall together late into the night, so I stuck with it until 2:30
am.   I made one dupe, my fault; was tired and just copied the call wrong.
Felt I more or less wasted my time on the BOG.  I think I had one station
that I could copy on it, that I couldn't on the inv-v all the rest were the
other way around.  If it was border line copy, the inv-v was the one that
allowed me to make the contact as far as receiving.   Above the ground, on
the ground, whatever, I have never had any success with a beverage here.
Fighting one through the brush, briars and muck in my woods is good exercise
though!  Worthless for operating from my experience here.

QSO's		Mults		Score
341		73		51757
All S&P.

-----Original Message-----
From: cvcc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cvcc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of H. M. Motley, Jr,
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 1:51 PM
To: CVCC - reflector
Subject: [CVCC] CVCC ARRL 160 - 2013

CVCC 									
ARRL 160 2013

				Claimed					
Call	Station	QSO's	Mult's	Score	Ops				
N3UA	 W4DR	1,261	113	341,260	N3UA				
W4HZ	 W4HZ	1,128	103	261,414	W4HZ	W4PM	K4OSO		
W4ML	 W4MYA	705	83	122,259	W4MYA				
N4DJ	 N4DJ	587	69	83,697	N4DJ				
KG4W	 KG4W	354	62	44,454	KG4W				
WD4LBR	 WD4LBR	209	55	24,475	WD4LBR				
K4OSO	 K4OSO	need info

WU4G	 WU4G	need info

ANY MORE??	need info

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				877,559					

Paul, W4PFM, reports 3.5 hours on the air - 89 Q's, 42 Mults, 7,476 points
for PVRC

MYA sez :From my perspective it was tuff going with no 160 antenna and no
beverages.
Tried 80M dipole thru tuner, but it was poor,different configurations and
the best
match found, without the tuner,	was using the two loops configured as shown
in the picture, strange indeed. Puck's NOTE: The picture shows a "Rube
Goldberg" lash-up.  Bob can do amazing things with most any sort of antenna.
Operating skill trumps hardware most everytime!

W4DR sez: Bad conditions especially for DX.  Very little Europe this year.

N4DJ sez:I had my best start ever in a ARRL 160 test, averaging better than
60 per hour for over 4 hours.	Just could not get enough time in the chair.
Total time was only 13 hours.

W4PM sez: Mult's were down a bit but QSO total was up and our score was UP
from last year!			Jonathan's reworked 4 square RX array worked
great! It was like a beam - switch one way and you hear the west coast, the
other way and you hear Europe! We had 95 five point contacts and a few good
EU runs but not enough different countries.  Lots of G's, DL's, F's, S5's
and I's.								

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