160 Contest - Page 1

Posted: 2/25/2021 10:13:04 AM EDT

Starts Friday the 26 of Febuary at 22:00 UTC. Here's the rules.
https://www.cq160.com/rules.htm

Good Luck to all, hope you make plenty of contacts.

73

Posted: 2/27/2021 9:59:26 AM EDT

[#1]

Spent a couple of hours listening last night and it was busy. Heard fifteen different states looking for contacts. East coast the southern states and the midwest all checking in.

Should be busy again tonight.

All I have is a end feed 100' wire and it tuned right up.

Posted: 2/27/2021 12:57:53 PM EDT

[#2]

I played in it for a while last night - 40 contacts, 13 states + 2 in Canada.

All I'm using is 100 watts into a 154' inverted L at ~40', with a tuner at the base.

Posted: 2/27/2021 5:05:03 PM EDT

[#3]

North American QSO Party (RTTY) is also running this weekend. It's multi-band but doesn't include 160.

Posted: 2/27/2021 10:24:30 PM EDT

[#4]

Never made a contact on 160 - maybe tonight is the night?
See if the Xiegu can tune up the OCFD on 160, and if 20 watts is enough.

ETA: worked 6 stations, DE,PA,NH,VT,NY,OH on 20 watts. Really need a different antenna to be effective, and likely full 100 watts would help too, but for first time on 160 was pretty cool.

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