160 meters in 2019: Yelling at a Moist Sponge

With the CQ 160 meter contest going on this weekend, I felt compelled to string up a full-sized W3EDP antenna (plans link) horizontally and zig-zaged to fit across the side yard.  Took all of ten minutes with zip-ties and some convenient trees.  And it sort of worked, but to be a player in the current poor propagation conditions you really need a well-engineered antenna and at least a kilowatt of power.  Neither of these things describe my set-up, so the results were about what you'd expect.

Meh, made a single contact across the Gulf to the Tampa area, so I didn't come away skunked.  Good enough for this year.