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[3830] NAQP SSB K5TR(WM5R) SO

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Subject: [3830] NAQP SSB K5TR(WM5R) SO
From: wm5r@arrl.net (wm5r@arrl.net)
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:47:26 -0400 (EDT)
                     North America QSO Party - SSB
                    
Call: K5TR
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: K5TR

Class: SO LP
QTH: EM00
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band     QSOs  Mults
----------------------
  160:     10      8
   80:     48     20
   40:     74     33
   20:    331     53
   15:    157     38
   10:     14      6
----------------------
Total:    634    158  =  100,172

Club/Team: Austin Powers

Comments:

     I had a great time operating this contest at George's new station          

west of Austin.  This is the first time I've operated this contest              

seriously, one of my first serious single-operator efforts, and the first       

time I had tried SO2R.                                                          

                                                                                

     Propagation on 10 meters was dissapointing.  When you work more            

multipliers on 160 than 10....  well, I could tell at times that I              

probably could have made more 10M contacts on scatter had I tried and           

moved people there.  In general, I did very little moving of stations           

from band to band.  I know I should be doing more of that, but absorbing        

the whole two radio thing was taking up enough brain cycles as it was.          

I also should have made more contacts on 40 than I did, but 40 meters is        

just so painful in so many ways that it's hard to spend much time there.        


     There was a lot of noise on all of the bands, much of it from              

atmospheric conditions, but some of it was line noise.  The one beverage        

I had available worked well on 160 and 80 and even 40.  I made 180 band         

changes, and TR LOG thinks 80 of my QSOs were second radio QSOs, or about       

13% of my QSO total.  I think I miscalculated on my off times and should        

have taken more time off earlier.  I ended the contest at 0530, just            

when I was on my way to a 70 hour.  Next time, I'll know better.  Or,           

conditions will be completely different and I'll do it wrong again :-)          




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