{"id":6100,"date":"2025-02-24T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:31:04","slug":"160-meter-ssb-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/160-meter-ssb-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"160 Meter SSB Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Roger-160.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6101\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I participated (<em>for a total of 45 minutes<\/em>) in the CQ 160 meter SSB contest on Friday and Saturday evenings. \u00a0160 is a real struggle for my short vertical and under-sized radials (<em>probably way less than 1% antenna efficiency on 160<\/em>), but I was encourage by my results in the CW version of the contest, so thought I would give it a try.\u00a0 SSB signals need a LOT more bandwidth (<em>over 50 times<\/em>) than CW, so the resultant increase in broadband noise at the receiving end severely limited my efforts!\u00a0 I could work some (<em>but not all<\/em>) signals who were a true 59+, but no one else could hear me.\u00a0 All my contacts were with US stations:\u00a0 I could hear VA7MM quite well, but he couldn\u2019t hear me!\u00a0 My furthest DX was Idaho and Colorado (<em>they must have had a low noise level there<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I posted my meager results (<em>10 contacts, 350 points<\/em>) on 3830 and gave credit to IHF.\u00a0 At least I wasn\u2019t last!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>73<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VE7AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated (for a total of 45 minutes) in the CQ 160 meter SSB contest on Friday and Saturday evenings. \u00a0160 is a real struggle for my short vertical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6102,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandhf.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}