Just a quick heads-up on what the ARRL160CW looked like from my chair (operating as EI100T from IO51uu near Cork); my log has just gone in with the grand total of 4 QSOs ;-) About 6 hours in the chair split evenly between Friday/Sat and Sat/Sun...
Thanks to the magic ears of W2BC, N4UA, K3ZM & VY2ZM (the strongest signal by far), assuming of course I managed to copy the calls right. It wasn't easy. The complete list of got-aways (none of them were other than "very weak" to "extremely weak" on my K9AY); VE2OJ, VE3PN, NO3M, N4FX, W1WMU and K1DG. My pea-whistle 100w (into a 60' base loaded vertical with 32 quarter wave radials) failed to make the trip across the pond I'm afraid. Roll on the Stew, the contest highlight of my year :-) I'll be running as EI100T (Titanic 100th commemoration special event call) one last time before the licence expires on Dec31. -- Regards Cormac, EI4HQ [Cobh / UTC] NNNN++++ ei4hq.cloudaccess.net www.corkharbourweather.ie _______________________________________________ Topband reflector - topband@contesting.com