CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/24 11:25The next CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW is going to start next weekend. The rules could be found by the following link: http://www.cq160.com/rules.htm.
Who is going to participate? I will be running SO HP as much as possible. I'm not sure to be on all the contest time due to some home obligations. Anyway I'll try to do my best ...))))
Since tat contest I'm starting using of the new short call I've recently got approved: VA2WA.
GL es CU in the contest!
73!
Victor
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If every thing goes ok , I should be there during the weekend.
My station has no 160 meters antenna, I will be loading my 80 meters antenna...
I will not be the top gun but I will be there.
Hope to give you some points.
Have fun,
Serge VE2HLS
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/25 08:43At least I have programmed my macros hi. Hope to modify my 80m if WX is ok. 73 de VE2FK ------------------- Friday Wx, Snow and time did not permit to modify my 80m. But shoud be around, low power to S&P big signals. GL to all. Claude VE2FK
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/29 09:06Salut tout le monde. Je suis en S/P. Gilles VA2EW (TZT) ne lâche pas, GO Gilles GO J'ai vu passé comme une comète Louis VE2EZD. Il y a aussi la joyeuse bande de l'Outaouais sous VE2OJ. Les autres, vous êtes bien caché, peut-être ce soir ou cette nuit.
73 Daniel VE2SB
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/29 11:04Bonjour à tous!
FFélicitations à CGQ! So many VE2 in the contest!
I have worked: VE2EW, VE2HLS, VE2FK, VE2EZD, VE2AWR, VE2OJ just only for the first night. The condition were moderate. Some solar flux disturbance did a big impact 2 AM GMT. Anyway worked few DX: CE, RA3, RA2F, UR and other EUs. I hope conditions.
73 et bon concour))
Victor
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I worked on/off friday evening the 160m contest. The band was fair but nothing exciting and it kept many Europe area with very weak signals. Of course seen this is very popular in States we cannot answer over some running dx stations. Huge M flares from the sun yesterday and at least it was not in our direction.
160m with low flux always gives interesting opening if you are right there for few minutes. I worked SN7Q, SM5EDX, S50K OZ7YY between 06:36 to 06:45 utc. Now this is 1-2 hours after their sunrise! They were all calling with no taker. I broke the pile-up for CE/K7CA. Some (lid) are calling 5-6 times when the dx answer you!!!
I hope the snow will be over this evening otherwise seen I live near 240-360-750 kv lines less than 2-3 km my rx noise will keep me out for the second day. So far States: 45 and Country: 42 73, Rejean va2am
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/30 12:03Good day everyone
Now the contest is over, the second day conditions improved not by signal strenght but from a lower noise. After 4h00 utc it was excellent to copy dx with no snow precipitation. Most ham searching for a new station were gone and I decided just to stay in S & P mode. My first call answer ratio was almost 100% without any cluster help. Again many qso completed after 07:00 utc for Europe 1-2 hours after their sunrise. I just gave-up with a GW3.. station the pile-up was terrible around that time. I just don't get it why some US stations call 5-6 times in a row ! His rate was 1 QSO/min due to QRM. The FTdx5K, IPO mode with 300 hz roofing, 100 hz bandwidth, no ringing at all, s-meter drops to S-0 between each signal with >80 db attenuation and K9AY + 2 preamps did the trick. You hear one signal at time and sometime no S-meter recorded. Of course it wont beat a beverage antenna (my dream).
My resultat is low on qso by working part time but I am happy again to break the 50 countries barrier. In Canada I missed MB and NB.
Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1.8 302 1980 52 52 Total 302 1980 52 52 Score: 205,920
73, Rejean va2am
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/30 12:11My final result:
CQ160CW Score Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2011-01-28
CallSign Used : VA2WA Operator(s) : VA2WDQ
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : QC
ARRL Section : QC Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.5
Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1.8 705 3634 58 37 Total 705 3634 58 37
Score : 345,230
Time on: 17 hrs
Finally worked Rejean VA2AM. Couldn't get some mults: SV, YU, F, T7, ES, EA. For sure I need some better antenna then Inverted L on 9 meters up over ground. Got only 650 watts from my PA on 160m. Meanwhile it could give up to 750 watts on other bands. The conditions were very rough. Some DX answered only after multiple calls.
Thanks to all QC's for all the QSO's! Merci ))
73!
Victor
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/30 12:35CQ160CW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-01-28 CallSign Used : VE2FK Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : 160 Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : QC Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V11.1.4
Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1,8 132 636 31 8 Total 132 636 31 8
Score : 24 804
Again it was nice to hear all the VE2 around. I was not doing it seriously since I had no antenna, just my 80/40m dipole with the K3+tuner. Reception was good and I could her a lot of DX calling USA station not answering... To my surprise I worked 8 DX, some are EF8M, G3TXF, MD4K, EW8EW and OM7M. I was telling myself, get your tower and antennas up for next one. Gilles and Vic had great signal all the time.
73 de Claude VE2FK
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/30 14:17Salut. Rien pour écrire à sa mère. J'ai fais mieux qu'en 2003 et 2008, c'était mon objectif. 73 Daniel VE2SB
CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW
Call: VE2SB Operator(s): VE2SB Station: VE2SB
Class: Single Op QRP QTH: QC Operating Time (hrs):
Summary: Total: QSOs = 138 State/Prov = 38 Countries = 8 Total Score = 31,326
Club: Contest Group du Quebec
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Re:CQ 160-Meter Contest, CW 2011 - 2011/01/30 15:46Salut les gars.
Il me reste encore 2 heures à consommer sur les 30 h.
J'ai fait ce choix car en fin de nuit les rythmes sont si bas que ça ne peut pas être pire et j'ai préféré dormir 2h plus tôt, me lever 1/2 pour le levé du soleil et me recoucher Présentement, je suis donc parti avec l'auto CQ tout en envoyant ce petit mot.
Pour l'instant, j'en suis à 1330 QSO, au mieux j'arriverai à 1390 mais c'est pas gagné, ce qui est mon 2eme meilleur score, le meilleur était en 2009 avec 1428 qso et un score qui m'avait valu de faire partie du ``millionnaire club`` dans l'encadré de CQ Magazine, avec des conditions exceptionnelles.
Ce crû 2011 était très différent des autres, les conditions ont changé sans arrêt. La première nuit, la propagation moyenne distance était époustouflante, je n'ai jamais eu de rythmes pareils avec l'Amérique : 3 groupes d'une heure au dessus de 100/heure, en fait je n'avais encore jamais atteint les 100 qso en une heure, même une seule sur un CQWW 160. En plus les 50 états sauf ID dans le log en moins de 12 heures, j'ai failli battre un record, le WAS 160m en 12h... La contrepartie de ça, c'est une grosse difficulté à trouver des fréquences de run: tous le monde entend tous le monde= tous le monde brouille tout le monde...et bien sûr les européens couverts en dessous de tous ça. Mais c'est pas tout idem du côté du vieux continent, les européens qui devaient avoir la même propagation canon à courte distance se couvraient entre eux et nous entendaient donc pas. Résultat, seulement 25 DX dans le log à la fin de la première nuit mais 58 States/provinces et un record de QSOs très pauvre en 10points. La seconde nuit a mal commencé, d'ordinaire à 21H locale, ça run fort avec l'Europe, là toujours rien, et moins de 30qso/h durant les 5 première heures: l'angoisse : j'abandonne ou pas ?, j'ai surfé sur le web, répondu à tous mes courriels,grignoté plus que raisonable, pensé qu'une TV dans le shack ce serait pas mal..... finalement vers 22h ça revient à la normale et j'ai eu 5 belles heures à 60/h avec majorité d'EU.
Bien voilà, je viens de m'occuper pendant 30 minutes et j'ai fait 13 QSO plus 2 maudits DUP
Je donnerai le résultat plus tard 73
Gilles VA2EW VE2TZT
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Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : QC Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec Software : N1MM Logger V11.1.4 Total Time On : 10:21 (621 mins)
Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1,8 226 1137 51 14 Total 226 1137 51 14
Score : 73 905
Rig : FT-950 + AL-811H + AT2K + Winkeyer USB Antenna : dipole at about 16 feet high
Thanks to QC stations VA2EW, VA2WA and VE2OJ. Victor your new call is really cool.
Made contacts with stations in zones 5, 8, 9, 14 and 31
Farthest to the east DR1A and to the west KH6CC.
A nice occasion to add some LoTW states on 160m.
Had a lot of fun despite my very low horizontal highly zigzaging antenna.
73 de Louis VE2EZD
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Forume
J'ai vu passé comme une comète Louis VE2EZD. Il y a aussi la joyeuse bande de l'Outaouais sous VE2OJ. Les autres, vous êtes bien caché, peut-être ce soir ou cette nuit. 
