Please post your results for this contest here by replying to this posting. Results posted here will be added to the CTRI Champions Leaderboard.
Don’t forget to submit your results to the sponsor per the rules:
“The new deadline for log submissions is 5 days from the end of the contest.
For CW this is 2200z Jan 30, 2015.”
73, Ken K3iU
Keeper of the CTRI Champions Leaderboard
N1MM+ reports a l’il less than 3 hours in this contest. I don’t really have a 160m antenna, but my tuner can make my amp happy when I use the NVIS(implying it is low) 80 meter dipole. The additional 400 watts from the amp helps a bit to overcome the lousy antenna.
SO(A) HP
117 Qs 27 St/Prov 1 DX
Score 7476
73, Ken K3IU
Call: W1XX
Op: W1XX
Station: W1XX
Class: Single-op HP
QTH: RI
Op Time (hrs): 12.5
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 731 S/P = 55 DX = 40
Total Score = 239,210
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Comments:
With no apologies to Dickens, this was a Tale of Two Nights. Day 1 was so slow I thought maybe there was a VHF contest this weekend (Oh, there was!). From the get-go, the EUs were easily readable…but largely not hearing me. So instead of keeping my BIC, I got 7 hours of nighttime sleep in two segments…awake for the EU SR around midnight. But alas signals were not much better.
After the same scenario D2 at my SS…all hell broke loose as EU SR approached with EU signals 599 and several layers deep calling to my CQs…while stateside was also calling for the RI mult. Had the hand on the B&W rotary switch for the Beverage RX antennas constantly. I now bemoaned chumping out the night before, as I might have had a shot to repeat in the top 10 USA.
Still caught another two hours of sleep after 3 AM til 5 AM awake for my SR with still no KH6 in the log. But from my previous years notes: “Don’t worry, KH6LC will find you…Lloyd & Co know you’re in RI.” They did. And so did a JA…wow first time ever in the contest.
Missed MT and the usual VE suspects.
One wish: That stateside would stay out of 1830 -35 for the weaker EUs to find a place to be heard when conditions not great. I hear the same stations there every year. I won’t work stateside in there even if a mult.
CTRIers: Lets see … worked W1AN, W1WBB, KS1J…probably forgot somebody.
My personal challenge for CQ 160 Phone the end of February: Keep the BIC no matter what.
73! — John, W1XX
TX: FT1000MP to Drake L7 = 1 KW to T-vertical w/32 1/4 wave radials
RX: 4 short Beverages 220 – 550 ft.
My power line noise had been so bad on 160 last fall, I never laid out my long radials. Thanks to John W1AN and Kurt Worcester and gang from National Grid, we located and corrected the main culprits on Friday of the contest. So despite a poor ground system, I gave it a go for a few hours. Saturday things were quite open to EU. Overall probably as few hours as Ken but it was fun. I heard W1WBB and John W1XX. That was about it.
Jim KS1J
CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: KS1J
Operator(s): KS1J
Station: KS1J
Class: Single Op Assisted LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 171 State/Prov = 37 Countries = 15 Total Score = 27,144
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
The mind was occupied elsewhere including getting the rear shack ready and putting a few hours into the VHF contest. Conditions were good, noise levels low. The hours in chair were about 2.5 on Friday night and 2 hours near sunrise Sunday. Was nice to have 2 KH6 stations call in Sunday morning. Worked W1WBB, W1XX and K3IU after fumbling around the PC screen with the mouse to find a lost cursor.
73, John W1AN
Little time available this weekend…rate of 25 QSOs/hr thru 4 hrs not too bad for QRP from here.
CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 102 State/Prov = 28 Countries = 0 Total Score = 6,552
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
Very little time to play this weekend. K7CA’s new UT stn is a force…great sigs AND ears! Only QSO with my 5 watts beyond Midwest. Looks like I missed a pretty good Saturday night.
Icom 706mkIIG @ 5w to 3/8 wv Inv L up <40' and horiz. 150' for both TX/RX;
~18 assorted gnd radials; N1MM Logger+; K1EL WinKeyer. QTH @ only 115 A.S.L.