North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: AB1J
Operator(s): AB1J
Station: AB1J
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Waltham MA
Operating Time (hrs): 1:40
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 10 6
40: 20 13
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 30 19 Total Score = 570
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Team:
Comments:
Just a few QSOs to exercise my vocal cords. If I depended on
phone contests to maintain my verbal skills I'd be totally
incoherent. Maybe mute. Luckily, I have my wife to talk with.
When I started ham radio I wasn't interested in or comfortable
using phone so I worked mostly CW. Lately I've
largely switched to RTTY and digital modes. I've noticed that
since ham radio went no-code new hams who are phone-phobic like
me go directly to RTTY/digital. Sometimes exclusively.
CW contest operating seems more popular than ever, but I suspect
that's due to the computer logging, RBN/clusters, callsign
databases (country file, SCP, call histories) and pretty good
code readers. Some contests, like the CQ-WW-CW don't require
more than a call sign for most contacts - click on it from the
cluster, actually hear it (hopefully), recognize your own call
(hopefully) and let the logger do the rest, including sending
by macros.
See you in the NAQP-RTTY in February.
73,
Ken, AB1J
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