It's us little pistols who make up a good deal of your scores I expect. Not that I'm such a little one but this season I have not even been able to get my inv 'L to work right. Put in power and SWR goes thru the roof????? Go Figure. Planning on seting up a K2AV FCP but it won't be by next weekend and my favorite 160 contest....160CQSSB. Been lazy this winter I guess.
Terry KI7M > On February 17, 2020 at 10:54 AM Bill Stewart <cw...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > > > Even us little pistols can have loads of fun. I managed to work 41 DX stns > with > 35 countries. Seventeen stns were in EU & 17 in the Carib. Rest in Cent. Am. > and KH6. I was hearing strong EU stns just before our sunset, but my first EU > QSO > was around 0100Z on Fri and 0Z on Sat night. The strongest EU sigs were in > the > S-7/S-8 range and Carib stns mostly a true 59+. KH7M & KH6/N6DA both bumping > S9 plus at times. My last log entry was LY7Z at 2351Z Sun night. Not being in > the > contest, I just hunted and pounced on the strongest sigs. Got some, missed > some. > I was using a TS-440S, 100W, a run-of-the-mill Inv. L. I heard no bad > ops...all were > courteous and no big pileups. As noted, there were a few speed demons, but > some > careful listening got them figured out. One op, may have been S50C, worked > with > me over a minute to get me in his log. All gave me a good chance to get thru. > Fun! > > 73 de Bill K4JYS/NC > > > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector