Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Warmup
Call: K5OAI
Operator(s): K5OAI
Station: K5OAI
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: San Angelo, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 2.5 hr
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 11 Total Score = 37
Club:
Comments:
Only 11 QRPp Q's for the Pre Stew Perry from WTX this year.
Rig K3, Power Out 5w, ERP 300mw
Antenna: 15' tall vertical (added 96" whip to top of the)
Hi-Q 6/160 @ 20' with 16 radials ea 13' long
http://picasaweb.google.com/k5oai.sam/RooftopAntennaFarmMay12010#5475929158295537954
Contest begins in daylight @ 1500z on Oct. 23rd, 2010
with big thunderstorms all over much of Texas
http://picasaweb.google.com/k5oai.sam/Sreenshots#5531609625846066114
Hoped to get a start at sunset or around 0001z of the 24th
many stations heard through 9+30 static crashes
but no contacts, by ~0400z I went to bed with ears ringing.
Started again morning of the 24th ~ 9:30z (4am local)
1st big op error......
Surprise,
what I had thought were to be never ending thunderstorms,
had ended sometime during the night....
1st contact @ 9:35z out to 1,032km
Hour and a half (11:01z) and 8 contacts later,
I had worked everyone that could hear me
Then I made my 2nd big op error, breakfast
of course it makes me sleepy,
no new Q's why not take a short power nap,
lets set the clock, say 30m or so should be good
will still have an hour before sunrise to try for more Q's
you guessed it,
3rd op error to come
neither can the op tell time,
nor can he correctly set the clock, sigh
return to the air @ 12:46z,
3 min before sunrise
managed three contacts, with declining distances
1,167km 762km 220km
by 12:51 band has closed for me,
I'm still copying signals, but my QRPp signals are not being heard.
Log:
Rec# Call Grid R Date / Time Km Points Grid S
1 WD5R EM45 10/24 09:35 1,032 3 DM91
2 K8QKY EM82 10/24 09:47 1,707 4 DM91
3 N7XM DM09 10/24 09:58 1,859 4 DM91
4 K1LT EM89 10/24 10:02 1,859 4 DM91
5 N8UM EM75 10/24 10:24 1,554 4 DM91
6 K9NW EN71 10/24 10:45 1,812 4 DM91
7 N0FW EM79 10/24 10:59 1,702 4 DM91
8 NS9I EN64 10/24 11:01 1,894 4 DM91
9 KO7X DN71 10/24 12:46 1,167 3 DM91
10 W6RLL DM51 10/24 12:50 762 2 DM91
11 N5UL DM82 10/24 12:51 220 1 DM91
Hopefully our thunderstorms will be settled down by the time of
the Stew Perry on 1500Z, Dec 18 to 1500Z, Dec 19.
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