Florida QSO Party
Call: N5NA
Operator(s): N5NA
Station: N5NA
Class: SO Mobile+DriverCW LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 244
20: 1600
15: 342
10:
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Total: 2186 0 CW Mults = 68 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 594,592
Club:
Comments:
A couple of months ago my wife said she'd like to go to Universal Studios
Orlando. My first thought was "When is the FQP?" So, we planned a
trip to visit relatives in L.A. (Lower Arkansas), my son in Charleston, then
Universal, finishing with the FQP. By the time we get back home to WTX we'll
have traveled over 3900 miles!
Last September I bought a new truck and the next day headed to AR, SC, and back
home to Texas, operating in those QSO parties. The injector noise in the new
truck was terrible, particularly on 20m. The week after the TQP I ordered some
large ferrite cores and added a ground to the driver's side battery. That
seemed to knock the noise down but I wanted to give it a good test under QSO
party conditions. The noise level from the truck is now minimal. If I could
just do something about power line noise. Maybe I should have picked up one of
those magic wands at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal!
Chuck, NO5W, told me I was in for some huge pileups and he wasn't kidding! Some
counties it was pileup from county line to county line. Usually in my QSO party
adventures the pileup drops off a few minutes after entering a new county. I do
my best at picking out calls but when callers are all zero beat and sending at
the same speed it's all but impossible for me. Sometimes the off frequency
weaker signal is the one that gets through.
I worked three other mobiles, W4AN, K4OJ, and NO5W. Chuck, NO5W, along with
Ted, KN5O, and I had planned to meet for dinner on Sunday. We were both headed
west on I-10 when I heard a strong station a few KHz away. Turned out to be
Chuck. We were both in Santa Rosa but weren't sure how close we were. CQ/X
logs the lat/lon of each QSO so after the QSO party we determined I was about
1.3 miles ahead of Chuck.
I had absolutely no problems with hardware, software, or RFI. I think we only
made a couple of wrong turns but never got far off the planned route. We were
about 30 minutes behind schedule on Saturday and about 5 minutes behind on
Sunday. We crossed into AL about 10 minutes before the end.
Equipment: Elecraft K3, Scorpion Antenna, Dell Latitude D630 running CQ/X, 2015
Ford F250 Superduty.
Thanks to everyone who called and the FQP organizers. A special thanks to my
wife, K5AKS, for suggesting we visit Universal Studios and driving me around
FL!
Thanks to the following stations for contributing more than half the QSO's:
N5DO(41), K5YAA(40), K9NW(38), NT2A(34), K9CT(34), N9CK(33), WI9WI(30),
NA8V(28), VE3KZ(27), K5KPE(25), K9PG(25), K3WW(24), K0RC(23), N5ZK(23),
K6LA(23), WA3HAE(23), NS9I(22), VA3DF(22), W8PI(21), W1END(21), K9CW(21),
K2DSW(21), K0HC(20), K7SV(19), KI0I(19), SP9LJD(18), HI3TT(18), K4LTA(18),
VE9ML(17), K4QPL(17), K9WX(17), W8UE(17), K8MR(16), AA7V(16), N1CC(16),
W1TO(16), W0ETT(16), W7YAQ(15), NW0M(15), N2CQ(15), K1SE(15), W9IU(15),
K2XE(14), W3HDH(14), WA1Z(14), WJ9B(14), W4NZ(13), NP2X(13), W7ZR(12),
AA4FU(12), VE3KP(12), K5PI(12), KS0MO(11), N4PN(11), UA3AGW(11), VA3ATT(11).
The following counties were activated with indicated results:
County | QSOs | 10-Min-Rate | FirstInLog
Lake | 124 | 186 | WA3HAE
Taylor | 111 | 198 | W0ETT
Hillsborough | 103 | 198 | SM7CIL
Putnam | 102 | 186 | ND3R
Hardee | 89 | 156 | K5YAA
Alachua | 87 | 210 | KA0NES
Highlands | 86 | 174 | AA7V
Flagler | 81 | 174 | K4LTA
Lafayette | 79 | 192 | VE3KZ
Okeechobee | 78 | 192 | HI3TT
Polk | 77 | 180 | K2XE
Manatee | 76 | 168 | K9NW
St.Lucie | 73 | 144 | AB5FS
Jackson | 73 | 210 | F8BFU
Leon | 70 | 210 | WA5RML
Walton | 68 | 228 | WA9LEY
Calhoun | 65 | 174 | N1CC
Okaloosa | 63 | 222 | K5KPE
Gadsden | 59 | 240 | W1TO
SantaRosa | 58 | 210 | K9CT
Dixie | 58 | 198 | WJ9B
Volusia | 56 | 114 | K4BSK
Osceola | 52 | 114 | K3WW
Liberty | 51 | 186 | SE5L
Brevard | 48 | 138 | K7SV
Escambia | 47 | 168 | NM5M
Gilchrist | 43 | 156 | SP6JOE
Wakulla | 43 | 186 | W7RN
IndianRiver | 41 | 180 | N3DXX
Holmes | 41 | 120 | W8IQ
Washington | 41 | 186 | KI0I
Orange | 30 | 174 | K4QPL
Bay | 27 | 156 | K6LA
Jefferson | 15 | 90 | UA3AGW
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