[PVRCNC] K2AV 2019 CQ160CW

[Ted]

Really FB Guy!

Monster score - awesome, and with no Rx antenna!!

Kudos/ must have been a blast.

73, ted N9NB 

Sent from smartphone, please excuse typos

> On Jan 27, 2019, at 5:04 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [Edited version for PVRC]
> CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW - 2019
> Call: K2AV
> Class: Single Op Assisted HP
> QTH: NC
> Operating Time (hrs): 27.7
> 
> Summary:
> Total:  QSOs = 1205  State/Prov = 57  Countries = 65  Total Score = 476,166
> 
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Was without a RX antenna. Old one (phased loops on ground for NE) gone due
> to pipe ditching for drainage, something needed done for years. New one
> (SAL30) not up due to record rainfall in NC 2018, ground too wet for
> preliminary work in the woods. Gonna have to pay tree guys to do it.
> 
> Computer took me off line for 12 minutes in middle of contest, one of those
> Windows 10 "Your computer has failed and needs to be restarted, and then
> apparently  I lost my really good run frequency, naturally.
> 
> I am so grateful the contest log did not go away.
> 
> Couldn't run diversity for the superior listening, due to no RX antenna.
> Constantly aware of that, feeling my hearing was being "squeezed" or
> something.
> 
> I figured that I was going to be crushed, and Friday night was a bit bum
> conditions (wet blanket listening) for distance from NC, as shared among
> the local contest partakers. However, mostly working Eastern and Mid US,
> started with more than 600 Q's in first 6 hours.
> 
> But then Saturday night blew away any drudge about the conditions. That was
> an EU sunrise opening the likes I'd never seen or even heard of. Huge
> number (154) of ten pointers for me. All-time personal best for CQ 160 CW.
> Crushed my old best score.
> 
> What a blast. I really didn't think I could do a score like that. Or for
> that matter do 27.7 hours BIC
> 
> Equipment: K3 + Acom 2000A (thanx, Dan).
> 
> Antenna: Finally fully loss-listed Inverted L over FCP. (Last item, replace
> feedline to antenna)
> 
> Finally got the ugly, ugly job done (spare you the details), of burying
> control cables and hardline out to the "tractor shed" which houses my L/FCP
> feed design breadboard. I could hear the difference on RX, switching tuner
> in and out in the shack.
> Now to get some ears.
> 
> 73, Y'all
> Guy, K2AV
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