Ohio QSO Party
Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Fairfield County
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 165 77
40: 121 135
20: 67 3
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 353 215 CW Mults = 72 Ph Mults = 74 Total Score = 134,466
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
I more than doubled my score from last year! Of course, last year was
my first time. Last year I also avoided phone because I dislike phone
and I avoided 75 meters because I didn't have an antenna for that part
of the band, and I don't have a coaxial antenna tuner.
This year, just hours before the test, I added another wire in
parallel with the 2 other 3.5 MHz wires that hang to the side of my
160 meter "T". I cut the wire for 3.825, and it came out resonant at
3.775, but the rig was happy anyway. (Paralleling wires causes the
higher frequency wires to be very narrow.)
I started on 40, and alternated between 40 and 20 until early evening.
Then I tried 80 and wow! Never heard so much activity during daylight
on that band! I should have been there sooner.
I only worked K8MR mobile just once, when he was just one county over.
I worked W8TK several times, although I could never hear him well.
But Tom is pretty patient. I worked K8RYU a few times, too, although
I botched the county the first time. Thanks to the rovers for making
the test interesting.
Jackson County was an easy multiplier this year.
Next year I'll try to have a second radio (looking at squandering some
of the looking-for-a-job reserve money for a K3) and check 80 meters
more often.
Equipment: IC765, ETO 91B (thanks, K8ND), numerous verticals,
Beverages (which are indispensable when all you have is a vertical).
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