North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: AC3U
Operator(s): W3UL
Station: AC3U
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 188
20: 22
15: 0
10: 0
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Total: 210 49 Total Score = 10,290
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team: PVRC Annapolis #1
Comments:
AC3U is the station of Severn River Contesters. We chose, however, to operate
this one from the club's winter location in Florida.
The contest started using an end fed wire run up a palm tree. I figured that
our proximity to salt water would be helpful, BUT the real proximity was to our
condo building (think rebar!! sucking up our RF) thus making the first few hours
on 20M worse than having a root canal.
So, fearing the dreaded condo HOA (similar to the Stasi), we had dinner as the
sun set and then, under cover of darkness, set up an inverted vee fan dipole
on a 32 ft mast attached to my car about 100 ft away. From there on it was non
stop on the same 40M freq for several hours. Next time I'll bring a 75M
antenna.
Spots were rare - the most notable by YO7MPD who reported a strong signal in
Romania. Thanks for all the Q's.
Band QSOs Pts Sec Mt2 Pt/Q
7 188 188 34 2 1.0
14 22 22 12 1 1.0
Total 210 210 46 3 1.0
Score: 10,290
1 Mult = 4.3 Q's
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