CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
CQ World Wide 160-Meter Contest
| Call | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| KD3HN | ASSISTED LOW | Present antennas for 160m: full-wave 160m horizontal loop at an average height of 40 ft (TX and RX) and a 3-element Hi-Z receive array (RX only). Did not use my 50-foot square loop-on-ground (RX only) which is planned for 630m/2200m. |
| KD9KEQ | SINGLE-OP LOW | Homebrew 80M inverted V with the apex @45ft. |
| KD9YOO | ASSISTED LOW | myantenna 75-10l setup in inverted l about 45ft agl. 100ft rg8xcoax. |
| KE0ITC | SINGLE-OP LOW | End-fed wire antenna looped around backyard. Not ideal for 160m. |
| KE0KOT | ASSISTED LOW | Homebrew 80m dipole, inverted V, Balun at 40ft and the ends at 10ft. |
| KE4YOG | ASSISTED LOW | This was not a great year. I am dealing with some physical issues and I couldn't put in my normal effort. |
| KE7BT | SINGLE-OP HIGH | No more full size vertical, just a short long wire with no rec. ants. this year |
| KE8BNE | SINGLE-OP LOW | 160M half wave dipole at 20 feet. |
| KF0GUS | SINGLE-OP LOW | 160M LOOP 20FT HIGH HOMEBREW |
| KF0GV | SINGLE-OP HIGH | Fun contest! Conditions were great! |
| KF8DK | ASSISTED LOW | ENDFED HALFWAVE MULTI-BAND |
| KJ6XC | ASSISTED LOW | 203' long wire |
| KK4R | SINGLE-OP LOW | Conditions were good, but I had little time for this contest. The best part was working one before I heard their call sign. A nice young lady was doing a good job on the mic, and I knew it wasn't a dupe. When I asked for the call and got N3QE, th |
| KM4IAJ | ASSISTED LOW | 71foot end Fed wire 66 foot OCF 40-6 dipole |
| KM4RK | ASSISTED LOW | 160m ladder-line fed dipole, feed point at around 30 feet high, each end around 20 feet |
| KO4RUL | SINGLE-OP LOW | Yaesu FT-891 100w pep MFJ 2990 vertical |
| KQ9J | ASSISTED HIGH | Hoping for better conditions next year! |
| KS3D | SINGLE-OP LOW | Conditions for this SOLP station were pretty bad. Down 10 Qs and 12 Mults from last year, which cut my previous score by more than half. Noisiest band conditions and weakest signals I've ever heard. The top of the cycle may be great for the highe |
| KT3T | ASSISTED LOW | Inv-L fed at the ground and goes horizontal at 45 ft. |
| LX1NO | SINGLE-OP HIGH | It's amazing how many people think 1kc distance to the other station is more than enough room. |
| LY0NAS | SINGLE-OP LOW | Kenwood TS-590SG 39m wire at ~12m highest point with 9 radials |
| M0PLX/M | SINGLE-OP LOW | Mobile station working from a car on the AMPRO 160 antena |
| N0JK | SINGLE-OP LOW | Put the rain gutter antenna into service again to hand out a few contacts. SSB more difficult than CW! No foreign DX, longest distances worked were to NC, PA, and VA. |
| N0LMQ | SINGLE-OP QRP | Top loaded vertical with bow tie shaped umbrella. Vertical element 18'. See qrz page for details. |
| N0UMF | SINGLE-OP LOW | 160 meter dipole at 25 feet |
| N1ADX | SINGLE-OP LOW | vertical whip |
| N1ZN | SINGLE-OP LOW | 160 meter dipole 20 feet above ground. |
| N2GXJ | SINGLE-OP LOW | Horizontal skywire loop in triangular shape, 70 feet high at one corner, 50 feet high in another, and 30 feet high in the third corner. Hey, we work with what we have. 73 |
| N3TJB | SINGLE-OP LOW | L SHAPED END-FED |
| N3TTT | ASSISTED HIGH | Another remote operation from dad's station (AA1K). RFI plagued the best NE beverage. Woke up Saturday with severe muscle spasms in my shoulder and decided to skip the second night. Flex 6400 and the KPA1500 I replaced the finals in just before t |
| N4BAA | ASSISTED HIGH | Best 6 hours of the year! Always fun! 1/4 full size vertical with 200 radials. No receive antennas this year... Normally 8 circle array and 20+ bevearges. 73 Jose N4BAA |
| N4IW | ASSISTED LOW | Since I don?t have a real 160 meter antenna, this is a difficult contest for me, not to mention that for me, nighttime is for sleeping. Those excuses aside I gave it a shot. I started late on Friday evening due to family-time, and was surprised at how few stations there were on that I could hear. I went to bed early because that?s how I roll. By that time, I had worked most of the stations that I could hear. I got up early Saturday morning and could not hear but one contest station for the first hour and he was a dupe from Ohio. I felt better when I looked at the Online Scoreboard because there were only 103 US stations listed on there. At the end of the contest there were only 134 US Stations on there! I know everyone does not use the Scoreboard, but this gives a small contest feel to me. Friday night, I had the pleasure of working Ken (K4XL), and I initially messed up the exchange by pushing the wrong F Key. Ken, now you know what happened. |
| N5NEN | SINGLE-OP HIGH | 148ft. end-fed, max 25 ft up. 250W to 450W |
| N5NIQ | SINGLE-OP LOW | Yaesu FTdx1200 @ 70watts with 84ft EFRW Inverted V @ 25ft |
| N5YIZ | SINGLE-OP LOW | Worked mobile for about an hour from Galveston State Park. Icom IC-7300 with an AMPRO-160 antenna. |
| N7QOZ | SINGLE-OP LOW | END FED ZEP |
| N8HHG | SINGLE-OP LOW | DIPOLE UP 20-FT |
| N8OL | SINGLE-OP LOW | INVERTED 160M DIPOLE |
| N8YEL | SINGLE-OP LOW | Loaded dipole, inverted V configuration, apex 32 feet above ground. |
| N9ARX | SINGLE-OP LOW | My first ever 160M contest. It was fun making some of my first 160M contacts! 73's Clark de N9ARX |
| N9TF | SINGLE-OP LOW | Very PT. Only a couple of hours each night for my 160m fix! Band was noisy and not in great shape. Tough on SSB with a compromise antenna. Only heard a couple weak EU Friday night, working east coast stations. MIA were the many Caribbean stations I can usually work on CW. No DX worked here. Some of my attention early Saturday night was diverted to the RTTY NAQP. I hit 100 Qs late Saturday night and called it a contest. No more new calls heard and activity had dwindled. On the bright side, I beat last years score! 73, Gene N9TF K3S 100 watts to 6BTV w/160 parallel inverted L wire at 6BTV feed point. |
| N9TNT | SINGLE-OP LOW | Half-wave 160m end-fed wire 25 ft above the ground at highest |
| ND8DX | SINGLE-OP HIGH | The Contest started out rather well with decent rate for daylight, was called by PP5JR, and earlier than expexted by CR3W and EI7M. I said to myself HANG ON THIS IS GONNA BE ONE HECK OF A RIDE ! NOT the ride I expected as it went down "The Black Hole in the Middle" not too long after!! Saturday night and Sunday morning was better but no EU runs and not one DL although most EU's that called were loud. I think the first 24 turned most OP's off. No matter the conditions CQ160 is still my favorite Contest. Thanks to all that called and gave fills as as needed. |
| NF8M | SINGLE-OP LOW | Antenna: inverted-L, 135 feet total, highest point 30 ft above ground. |
| NM2R | SINGLE-OP LOW | home brew T 35' horizontal 50' top... swr dances in the wind... |
| NN5T | SINGLE-OP LOW | Butternut HF-2V with 160m base loading coil option --- 1,800 ground radial |
| NS9DX | SINGLE-OP LOW | End Fed Wire |
| NV3C | SINGLE-OP LOW | 528 foot loop |
| NW5Q | SINGLE-OP LOW | Using an end fed sloper at 25 feet. A big coil and about 60 feet of wire with 4 of my steel fence posts used as a counterpoise. My success is very much dependent on the quality of the receive antenna(s) at the other end. |
| NY1V | SINGLE-OP LOW | AH4 Tuner feeding an OCFD which is bent at 90 degrees to fit in my property. |