Missouri QSO Party
Call: K5YAA
Operator(s): K5YAA
Station: K5YAA
Class: Rover HP
QTH: 26 Counties
Operating Time (hrs): 7.0
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 0 0
80: 215 0
40: 431 4
20: 154 15
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 800 19 Mults = 50 Total Score = 80,950
Club: Oklahoma DX Association
Comments:
First the highlights:
#1 My last QSO in the Missouri QSO Party was an eyeball and dinner with W0BH
and XYL Lorna. I'd say that was the best QSO I had in the party!
#2 80 meters was better than 20!
#3 The countryside of Missouri is still as beautiful as I remember it from 20
years ago. Red buds were beginning to bloom and the grass is turning green.
#4 The WX was nearly perfect except for a fairly stiff wind on Sunday.
Now the Lowlights:
#1 My schedule on Saturday went haywire when I took Hwy 7 instead of Hwy 13 in
Henry County. Ended up on some of the "lettered" roads - those without numbers
and they are little black lines on the map not the red ones. The Tarheel got a
whacking up and down those roads but kept working for the duration. I was
already late when I hit Henry county and got 45 more minutes behind. My
mistake was I picked up the microphone to make a few "moving" Qs and went right
on past my turn. Should have known better than to go to that mode.
#2 Didn't get to make any Qs from Callaway because of the schedule slippage and
just barely made any from the Audrain and Boone line before time ran out
Saturday.
#3 The bands were not really in all that good a shape. Had they been 1,000 Qs
would have been easily made even without a driver.
Thanks to the many who followed me around in this one. Calls that showed up
many times in my log were ( from memory ) : N8NA, KO1U, W7OM, K5CM, W8WVU,
N6MU, N4CD, W3DYA, NO5W, KU5B, K4AMC, K5LH, AA5JG, AF9T, K9EN, W1END, DL3DXX,
N4PN, K4BAI, NS2X, NW6S, N5NA, KE0G, K0HNC, W1DWA, WA7ID and AD5WI.
I especially enjoyed working Bill, K0DEQ several times in Phelps county. Been
talking to him for over 50 years.
Bug sending and paper logging. Very little air time while driving in this one.
The roads are not as straight as the ones in Kansas! Hills and curves which do
not for CW sending make.
73 - K5YAA
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