North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 6:30
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 139 34
80: 179 40
40: 106 37
20: 33 17
15: 1 1
10: 1 1
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Total: 459 130 Total Score = 59,670
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team: PVRC MD Metro 1
Comments:
My usual last six hours (plus a little) in January NAQP. I had tricked myself
into organizing a team for PVRC MD Metro Chapter, so I felt obliged to push hard
on this one.
15M and 10M were gone by the time I started. I managed more QSOs and mults on
20M than last year. QSO total is about 8% below last year; multiplier total is
up about 15%. More QSOs than in highest-ever-score year (2015), but had many
more mult's on 15M and 20M that year.
Even though 80M was the "money band" I had some loud buzzing QRM on
80M and 40M that progressed from sporadic to interment to near-constant. 40M
was mostly too "long" to generate volume. That QRM drove me down to
160M more than I wanted, but the results there are nice enough -- even a QSO
with AZ. Fortunately, the QRM faded significantly toward the end of the 'Test.
I finished the last 35 minutes with a 39 QSO run on 80M. My only other major
run was 46 QSOs in 28 minutes at 0325Z on 160M. Other runs ranged from a few
(i.e., less than the N1MM criterion of >10) to 19. N1MM+ shows 196 QSOs from
runs (>10), so about 40-45% of my QSOs were from CQing. When S&P I tried
to focus on the basics: tune fast, call once, and move on; don't waste time.
There are some surprising holes in the band-multipliers. I don't know if that
is from low BIC or from ineffective S&P. I did move one PVRC WV from 160M
to 80M. I asked one PVRC DC to move from 80M to 160M, but he was not QRV. In
my end-of-contest run on 80M I got called by a VE1. I neglected to ask him to
try 160M. OTOH, I had still lots of easy mult's available on 80M, and, indeed,
MT, SD, and SC did call in after the VE1.
At the end, I was really tired, but too wound up to sleep. I don't know if I
can do this again on SSB next weekend.
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