North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: N8SBE
Operator(s): N8SBE
Station: N8SBE
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 12 9
80: 43 23
40: 64 32
20: 73 33
15: 64 25
10: 34 15
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Total: 290 138 Total Score = 40,020
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
Personal best for me for this contest, considering I'm still too chicken to try
to run a frequency in a CW contest. It still takes me a couple of listens
doing search 'n pounce to get the station's callsign and exchange, before I
call, but each year I find my CW speed slowly improving, even though I don't
use it much outside of contests. 25 wpm no longer frightens me, and 30 wpm is
starting to sound 'normal'.
The bands were chock full of signals, and I started in the afternoon EST local
time with 10 meters, and after working all the stations I could hear in a
single pass, moving down to 15 meters, repeat, wash, rinse. I ended up on 160
meters just before midnight local, and even though I had a ridiculously high
noise floor, I still managed to work a dozen stations over the next hour, and
most of them were multipliers, one of the neat aspects of the rules of this
contest. It pays to move to other bands, even if you get a small handful of
contacts, they most all will be multipliers.
73,
-- Dave, N8SBE
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