Louisiana QSO Party
Call: NO5W
Operator(s): NO5W W5TUF
Station: NO5W
Class: RoverMixed LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs CW-Dig Mults Ph Mults
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160:
80: 5 5
40: 264 39
20: 192 7 39 4
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 461 7 83 4 Total Score = 162,946
Club: Jefferson ARC
Comments:
K3/100, HI-Q 4/80 antenna, 2002 Pathfinder, CQ/X 1.8.0.13, Streets & Trips
2013
This year Jim-W5TUF remarked at a club meeting that there were many parts of
Louisiana that he had not seen. We quickly developed a travelog for him and
fortunately he agreed to travel along with me in the LA QP, originally to share
the driving and operating but as it turned out he did all of the driving and I
did all of the operating -- next year we'll definitely get him to take a turn
in the operating seat. Many thanks to Jim for doing an excellent job of getting
us around the 450+ miles of the route with only two "diversions".
This was a QSO Party adventure that had a rather rough start. Everything had
been successfully checked out Friday before the party but, since I prefer not
to leave the K3 installed in the vehicle overnight in my neighborhood, Saturday
morning just before sunrise found me installing the K3 by the light of the
vehicle dome light. Having done this installation many times I can do it in the
dark but this time I managed to miss the power pole plug, not entirely but in
such a way that the red side of the supply got plugged into the black side of
the radio. At the time I did not realize my mistake and went happily across
Lake Ponchatrain to pick up Jim.
And away we went to complete the setup of the station on the way to our first
parish - Washington. Ah, what's this no power to the radio? Checking out the
connection, the error of my installation was apparent but of course the error
had blown a fuse in the supply. By this time it was about 10 minutes before the
start and I could not remember where my spare fuses were since they are rarely
needed. Fortunately there are two circuits from the supply, one (now dead)
dedicated to the radio, and the other dedicated to supplying the logging
laptop, an RS-232 GPS, and the antenna controller. Fortunately the Rig Runner
connected to the second circuit had a spare 25A slot so I was able to power the
radio from that connection. Unfortunately in the confusion we had missed our
first turn so we had some back tracking to do. After that things went smoothly
and we were able to activate all of the planned parishes and even made it to
our appointed beer and pizza date with Dallas-K1DW and Ted-KN5O at the end on
time.
The QSO party was painfully slow during the morning and early afternoon but
picked up later in the day. Conditions were strange, especially on 20m where we
had openings to Europe and Japan at the same time. We rarely work any JAs in our
QSO party rovering trips but this time JO7WXN went in the log in seven different
parishes. Here are some stats.
The following parishes were activated with indicated results:
Column Legend
1. County name
2. Number of QSOs from county
3. Initial ten-minute rate
4. First station in log
Column [1] [2] [3] [4]
St.Tammany 53 126 KQ3F
Jefferson 42 96 W8WVU
E.Feliciana 31 54 KA7T
Acadia 25 96 ON4AAC
PointeCoupee 24 66 DL3DXX
St.John 23 96 W8WVU
Lafayette 22 78 DL3DXX
Orleans 21 108 WB0PYF
W.Feliciana 21 72 AA8R
Washington 20 42 W0EAR
Avoyelles 20 66 WA4KSO
St.Charles 19 108 W6OUL
St.Helena 18 96 KE0TT
W.BatonRouge 17 24 JO7WXN
St.Martin 17 66 DL3DXX
Vermilion 17 78 DL3DXX
E.BatonRouge 16 72 WB0PYF
Tangipahoa 15 54 KQ3F
Iberville 15 78 DL3DXX
Evangeline 14 48 KQ3F
Ascension 11 48 JO7WXN
St.Landry 9 36 KQ3F
St.James 9 48 N2CQ
Rapides 5 12 KE0TT
>From this you can see that Dietmar-DL3DXX was tracking us close enough using
the APRS display that he managed to be first in the log in 5 parishes. A close
second in that statistic was KQ3F. During the party we worked 156 different
stations and thank each of them for the Qs. Special thanks go to the following
stations who contributed more than half the contacts: N2CQ(24), KQ3F(18),
K0HNC(18), DL3DXX(17), N6MU(16), WB0PYF(13), WA8ZBT(12), AD1C(12), W0ZQ(11),
W8WVU(10), KC3X(9), JO7WXN(9), K7ZYV(8), N4JT(8), KE0TT(8), WE7G(7), W7GF(7),
W4SIG(7), N5PR(7), K4AMC(7), K0DEQ(6), K8MR(6), YV5OIE(5). There may be some
dupes in those results.
Even with the slow start and conditions that were not the greatest, it was a
fun party. Our next one, the MS QP, is coming up soon where Skip-W5GAI and I
will be sharing the driving and operating. So please listen for us operating
NO5W in a number of southern counties in Mississippi on April 1.
73
Chuck-NO5W
Jim-W5TUF
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