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12/12/2008 | KJ4WD
This was my first 160 meter contest and first time on 160 meters. I don't have a 160 meter antenna. Ive been meaning to put up a 160 meter inverted L but havent gotten around to it (too many contests to work!). But, I followed a suggestion from QST mag... Read More
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12/12/2008 | N9TF
Still did not get my inverted L up for this years contest. Worked the contest with my low hanging Alpha Delta DX-LB at a 35-foot apex. One leg to the ENE was tied off into a tree at about 30 feet and the other leg sloped down along my roofline, laying ... Read More
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12/12/2008 | N8CPA
Okay. I submitted them--17 Q's; all made in the first hour of the contest, all at 10W, all with no real 160 antenna. My highlight was working K9AY. I hope he was using his terminated listening loop array when I answered his CQ. (I want one of those!... Read More
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12/11/2008 | K0TV
Well, the rate junkie (N1IW) had fun at the start of the contest and just missed
putting 400 QSOs in the log during the first 4 hours. He actually got the last
10 rate well over 200 a few times and kept the last 100 rate above 100 for
quite a while. Wa... Read More -
12/10/2008 | WO2N
SSCW It wound up a typical text book finish for me. Clean Sweep, my main goal by early Sunday Afternoon, As in my previous 7 Sweeps.
Condx okay for low cycle, PAC first QSO, then things got kind of scary with no VE stations logged in first 2 hrs. Sunda... Read More -
12/10/2008 | KG5VK
you know your a Sweepstakes contester.........
when your Mom
shouts over the fence "did you sweep, yet"
on Sunday morning during antenna Farm tours
and Yes we did that morning with op KA5M grabbing KP4SQ
Our rates were down as compared to our best yea... Read More -
12/09/2008 | N8XE
What a way to start off the Christmas season: The ARRL 160M contest. This year it was c-c-cold and snowing at the QTH. A perfect setting for topband contesting. I did not get to operate as much as I would have liked because of Holiday activities, b... Read More
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12/09/2008 | N0JK
I live in a "no outside" antenna sub-division, with no trees either to put up wires. So to hand out a few points, I bought a 100 ft. length of 24 ga. wire from the hardware store for $4 Friday afternoon and taped it along side our house. Tossed the end... Read More
