North American QSO Party, CW
Call: K5PI/KH6
Operator(s): K5PI
Station: K5PI/KH6
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: HI
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15: 92 32
10: 33 19
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Total: 125 51 Total Score = 6,375
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: Austin Powers #2
Comments:
I'm house-sitting for a friend here, possibly through the end of February (life
is SO hard!), so I strung a few wires off the lanai (deck, to you mainlanders)
and made a few QSOs.
My original plan was to do a 20/40 sloping dipole -- basically two dipoles with
a common feedpoint. I hoped it would work on 15, too. But it turned out I
didn't have as much room as I though, and when I tried to load up on 40, I
caused really bad TVI here in the house. 20 wouldn't load at all.
10 and 15 were a much better story. I hung a simple 15M dipole from the second
floor deck down to the ground and found that it loaded up fine on both 10 and 15
with a little help from the tuner. I had a few short runs, but did about 2/3
S&P.
The hardest part was that I had to send everything with the paddles. I had a
keying interface, but my only computer runs XP with NTFS. Writelog disables
parallel port keying on NT/2000/XP, and my computer won't run TR. Well . . . I
may be able to boot to a CD or floppy for TR, but I didn't get that figured out
in time. I now know about UserPort for Writelog, too.
During the afternoon we decided to head up to the north shore to watch the
surfers -- 25 foot waves, and 40 footers predicted for early next week. Wow!
I should be on a bit for NAQP SSB and will give the CW Sprint a go, too. I've
got my fingers crossed that I can find a station to guest/multi op for one of
these and/or ARRL DX CW. Aloha!
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