North American QSO Party, CW
Call: K6LA
Operator(s): K6LA
Station: K6LA
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 21 10
80: 129 43
40: 315 51
20: 354 53
15: 224 41
10: 43 20
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Total: 1084 218 Total Score = 236,312
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #1
Comments:
Most QSOs ever for me in a CW NAQP - and at the bottom of the sunspot cycle.
That indicates the terrific level of participation.
Now if only I had 160m & 80m antennas commensurate with the other bands. Using
a shunt fed tower on 160m with 2 radials snaked around the yard doesn't cut it,
although I heard a handful of mults that couldn't hear me.
I was also hindered by the lack of an antenna switch and bandpass filters on
one radio. My level converter burned up in Sweepstakes and it was fixed and
shipped but didn't arrive in time. I figured I'd mostly run on 20m during the
day and 40m later so I put the 10m & 15m antennas on a switch on one radio and
20m on the other. Turned out 15m was so good I was running on 15m and couldn't
listen to 10m at the same time. Fortunately, I flipped the run radio to 10m at
1922Z and worked the opening for 1/2 hour. Based on other reports, I guess I
didn't miss much.
At the first break I put 40m on the run radio and 20m & 80m on the 2nd radio.
Later I moved 160m to one radio and 80m to the other for my last hour.
Never heard VE1, VE9, VY1, VY2, VO1, VE4 or ND. Only 1 SD on 1 band. I spent a
few minutes at the start working an Italian station portable in the Caribbean,
but he wouldn't give me a name, so it was wasted time.
73, Ken, K6LA
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