NA QSO SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 16-Aug-97, 17-Aug-97
Callsign Used : KK1L
Operator : KK1L
Category : SO
Team/Club : Green Mountain Boys
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
__________________________________________________ Rig: Ten-Tec Omni-D
160SSB 1 1 1 1 T (80m shrt'd at base)
80SSB 44 44 44 21 80m dipole at 40'
40SSB 106 105 105 39 Butternut HF6V
20SSB 341 339 339 47 A3S at 40'
15SSB 58 58 58 23 A3S at 40'
10SSB 3 3 3 3 A3S at 40'
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Totals 553 550 550 134
Final Score = 73700 points
Operating Time
18:00 - 22:01 = 4:01
22:50 - 04:02 = 5:12
05:02 - 05:46 = 0:44
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9:57
SOAPBOX:
Mom used to tell me that if I didn't have something good to say, that I
shouldn't say anything...trust me I'll be brief this time! (A lie really. I
won't be that brief.) A QSO record for a NAQP for me, my best hour ever at 113
QSOs, beating my previous 101 Q best, and triple my best 20m QSO count for any
NAQP! Except for some experience effects, this is due entirely to upgrading
from a vertical to a tribander at 40' for the high bands. Four and five deep
pileups on occasion which I handled entirely too efficiently, since they
didn't last very long ;-)
I was briefly attacked (10 min) by the same QRM machine on 20m that spent over
a half hour beating me up during the IARU. Static noises were his big thing
this time. Relatively effective compared to the funky stuff he was generating
last time. But I have to laugh about adding QRN this time around! I had an S9
noise generator on top of S7 noise...so what!
80m and 40m have been my better bands in the past. I did pretty well
considering the QRN. It was a very painful contest for the most part,
feathering the RF gain did not help...full volume, full gain, wide filtering!
Given the time I spent on the low bands the result was dismal. I felt I
needed the multipliers on 80m, but hindsight says I should have been on 20m
more. I could have REALLY, REALLY used a second rig to accomplish that. I took
an hour off at 04:00 in the hopes 80m would quiet down a little. I am not sure
it hurt, but it did not particularly help either.
BTW: Apology accepted Milt, N5IA, for not hearing me on 40m...I think we all
understand. You were on my B VFO for a while though with no joy!
HOUR 160SSB 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM
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18 0 0 0 113 0 0 113 113
19 0 0 0 33 24 0 57 170
20 0 0 0 99 5 0 104 274
21 0 0 0 26 21 2 49 323
22 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 328
23 0 0 7 52 0 0 59 387
0 0 0 39 3 0 0 42 429
1 0 0 31 8 8 1 48 477
2 0 13 25 0 0 0 38 515
3 0 24 1 0 0 0 25 540
4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 541
5 0 7 2 0 0 0 9 550
TOTAL 1 44 105 339 58 3
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73 de KK1L ex N1PBT...ron (rrossi@btv.ibm.com) <><
Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics
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