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2010 ARRL 160 Meter Contest

12/12/2010 | VO1AU/BY1TTY

I spent about six hours on Sunday at the home of Zhenxin BA1KW (ex-BD1ISI) taking part in this contest.  Zhenxin`s home is also the location of club station BY1TTY in the Tian Tong Yuan neighbourhood of Beijing. 

In my six hours, I managed just 72 QSOs.  I won`t set any records, but it was fun nonetheless.  It felt just like a VHF contest.  

I noticed typical north-south propagation to 9M6, YB, VK, ZL, DU and HS, a little backscatter to JA and UA0, quite a good opening to UN/EX/UA9, a a very weak opening to Europe, where I worked from UA6 to DL.   I heard  nothing from Africa or the Americas.

My overly-long call sign is definitely a problem on SSB, where many ops just can`t handle it.  CW ops, however, seemed to have fewer problems getting it. 

QSL via VO1MX.

-- VO1AU


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