North American QSO Party, CW
Call: KB9OWD
Operator(s): KB9OWD
Station: KB9OWD
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 60 30
80: 133 41
40: 100 33
20: 83 19
15: 56 8
10: 2 1
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Total: 434 132 Total Score = 57,288
Club: Worldwide Young Contesters
Team:
Comments:
Had a tough start... planned on taking a half hour off time right off the bat
as we had some family over here early for my wife's grandma's funeral early
next week! When I got on, the computer would not talk with the radio. I had
everything hooked up from the last test. Pulled up a few old logs and
everything was fine, so I knew it was all in line o.k. Still would not work
with the NAQP software... Tried to re-download the NAQP software and still had
the same bug. Rather than lose more time, everything was hand sent and I also
had to manually make band switches.
Daylight hours were tough. Most 40 meter qso's were during daylight. Only 2
10 meter qso's were with WI locals. 15 opened nice to the west coast and a few
scatter into IL, MN and surrounding states. 20 from my QTH was horrible. I
missed numerous usually given mults on the east coast. I just could not hear
anything out east with a few exceptions and some FL.
40 produced some decent results early however got nosier as the time went on.
80 and 160 were both decent from here. Had a problem with the 160 vertical,
tunes great but no receive. The 1/4 wave for 80 tuned up nice and had decent
receive and that is what I used there. Anything on 160 is always a bonus from
here. After I had worked out what I could hear on 40 and 80, could always go
there and pick up some new mults. Only one VE2 that kept CQin as I called,
otherwise worked all I heard there which is rare!!
80 had fairly low noise as well and was able to work several there, some
earlier than expected. Overall had a good time admist log troubles which I
will sort out before next weekend and other obligations going on!
See you all next weekend!
73
Ryan KB9OWD
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