ARRL June VHF QSO Party
Call: NT5TU
Operator(s): NT5TU
Station: NT5TU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: em10uo
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 308 133
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 308 133 Total Score = 40,299
Club:
Comments:
Equipment: IC-706II 100w into 4el Quad @40'
Operated on and off for about 5 hours on Saturday. Initially just wanted to
start collecting grids and knock out the easy ones in one punch.
Finished antenna by about 2100z in 100*F weather, hooked up the rig, put it on a
dresser near the window, and grabbed a couple of pieces of paper. Band was
open, I S&P'ed for a while, then went to shower and dinner. When I came back, a
couple of hours later, it was really buzzing, so I sent a couple of CQs around
50225. Those were my last CQs for the next hour, because I had at least 3 to
who-knows-how-many stations calling me in a solid pile-up from then on. Keeping
time with a wrist watch was a pain; hand-mic in one hand, pen in the other,
still I quickly ran out of paper -- I scrambled for bills, receipts, anything
with white space on it. My best 60 minutes yielded me about 144 Qs. I can only
apologize to the guys on the bottom of the pile-up whom I never worked -- I
would have been more efficient with a computer log, but "who woulda-thunk" it
was going to be such a zoo?!
My YL wasn't bying another one of the "...but this is a BIG Contest, honey..."
(I really need a new line, guys!), so I had to QRT early on Saturday for our
date.
Still I never worked em10, em11, and bunch of other easy ones, so I hope to pick
up a few more 'new' grids in another contest.
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