[OKDXA] 160 meter contest conditions

[John Geiger]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the QSO, you were my only OK mult in the contest.  The only EU I heard was DF2PY but even that blew me away with my crummy antenna. HC8GR and PJ2T were hitting S8 here and ZF2AH wasn't too far behind.  I did hear Connie at VP5CM but no luck with a QSO.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Ed Gilliland <w5tm at ecewb.com> wrote:

> From: Ed Gilliland <w5tm at ecewb.com>
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] 160 meter contest conditions
> To: "Discussion of OKDXA" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 5:56 PM
> Hello John,
> 
> My first two contacts were G5W at 2230Z and OM2VL at 2231Z,
> in full 
> daylight.  I thought to myself here we go were going
> to have great 
> conditions but conditions here were mediocre.  Lots of
> activity here in 
> the US but the Europeans were generally weak to down in the
> noise.
> 
> 73, Ed/W5TM
> 
> John Geiger wrote:
> > Let me start off by saying my antenna on 160 is pretty
> bad.  No, lets make that really bad!  It is a 105
> foot dipole feed with a few feet of twinlead, which finally
> changes over to coax, and is about 35 feet high at the apex.
> People who model it for 160 are reduced to tears.
> >
> > Now that we have that out of the way, how did others
> find the 160 conditions this past weekend?  For me,
> they were some of the best conditions I have ever heard in
> the 160 contest.  I heard a total of 11 countries on
> (much more than I have ever heard before) and worked 2 new
> countries on the topband-ZF and 6Y.  Also worked PJ2
> and HC8 although I already have those confirmed on 160. Also
> worked VT for state #46 on 160.  Overall, had a blast
> in the contest doing what I could with what I have.  
> >
> > I did so much tuning on the radio I reinjured my
> shoulder which I originally hurt on Thanksgiving. 
> Guess I will have to tune left handed for the 10 meter
> contest.
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> >
> >       
> >
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