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
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160: 10 8
80: 48 20
40: 74 33
20: 331 53
15: 157 38
10: 14 6
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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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