Michigan QSO Party
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 32 64
40: 67 99
20: 2 0
15:
10:
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Total: 101 163 CW Mults = 41 Ph Mults = 55 Total Score = 35,040
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I started 40 minutes late which was mostly my fault. I couldn't find many
mobiles on CW or seem to get "in synch" with them. For example, every time I
heard W3USA, he was pretty loud and running at over 100/hr on 40 CW, but there
were long stretches when he was not heard. K8IR was the weakest mobile, but
heard me pretty well. 40 phone during the afternoon went well with a sustained
run in the 17Z hour. Around 23Z, the propagation and Wx gods started shining on
the MQP. It wasn't until about 0130Z, that some stations started skipping over
me on 40 and at 03Z there were still some loud sigs, amazing compared to some
nights. For once, I was about the right distance away from the target state to
really capitalize on 40. Also, despite local thunderstorms in the forecast
which held off until after midnight the QRN level on 80 was wintertime low and
signals were good! 20 was nearly dead to MI. I made a pretty decent showing on
phone and lousy one on CW. I should have broken off some phone runs to look for
the CW mults. Thanks to MRRC for sponsoring the event and I hope to be back
again.
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