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KH6AQ

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CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
« on: January 26, 2023, 06:42:34 PM »

Here it is, the contest you've been waiting for, the CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest CW contest. Get on the air and experience topband to find out why the maxim "there's no band like topband" is so apt.

2200Z Jan. 27 - 2200Z Jan. 29

Exchange
RS(T) and state for U.S., province for Canada, and CQ Zone for DX. Note: Zones are location indicators only and do not count for

Points
POINTS:

Contacts with stations in own country: 2 points.

Contacts with other countries on same continent: 5 points.

Contacts with other continents: 10 points


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Re: CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2023, 05:34:26 AM »

Got on for about 4 hours in a few hour long stretches, before and after going down to my daughter's house and playing with grandkids - well, playing with the 2 year old while my wife took care of the 7 month old, since I think technically this was a baby-sitting mission to let daughter and son in law go out to dinner...

Conditions were pretty good here the first night, noise and absorption much higher on second night. KH6AQ gave me a mult, very nice signal here in Maryland at the low end of the band.

Was on for parts of both nights' EU sunrise and worked a decent amount of 10 pointers in EU/AF. Signals were not very loud, but that has advantages - US pileups were pretty thin as many US stations didn't seem to hear the EU stations at all.

Always a good number of VE 5 pointers, too - best ears award to VE6BBP, who always seems to copy everything no matter the conditions.

My 51' T antenna is in need of replacing old/adding new radials, and over the 10 years it has been up in the trees it is now really in need of being moved but will wait until it falls down to do that!
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