North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: VE9AA
Operator(s): VE9AA
Station: VE9AA
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NB
Operating Time (hrs): 7:04
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 3 3
80: 158 35
40: 144 34
20: 191 43
15: 17 10
10: 3 1
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Total: 516 126 Total Score = 65,016
Club: Maritime Contest Club
Team: The MCC Boys
Comments:
Radio 1 IC-7410
Got up early and drove to Saint John, NB (on the Bay of Fundy) to pick up a
motorcycle manual I ordered on Sept 1rst.
Too cold outside this morning to fix the 160m antenna (-17*C/-27*C with wind
chill) so no 160m antenna.
Condx were all but non existent on 10m, save a couple Es Q's
15m was for all intense and purposes nearly a waste of time, but I likely dual
CQ's nearly 2 hours for my paltry 17 Q's there. It is what is it.
20m was weak and died promptly 1 hour after SS (4 hrs after opening bell)
40m started strong !.....then went downill fast.
Forced to dual CQ 40/80 while the greyline was only halfway across NA
No 160m antenna, so frigged with internal tuner in 2nd rig and outboard tuner
and managed to scrape together 3 Q's using my ZS6BKW--whew! I was sure I was
gonna smoke the rig.
80m condx were OK, but 40m went super long just after supper here and was only
hearing weak FL/TX and KP4/K3-someone eventually.
Not much fun CQing on only a single band when MUF is probably 4MHz.
(I bet guys went crazy over 160m prop, but I couldn't hear anything on that
band)
By 10:30pm local I had all the fun I needed.
Antennas for Radio 1 include, but not limited to:
10m - Bent/twisted A3S on my shed ~24\\\'
15m - K3LR/K1WA (parasitic) 5el array (partially working--ice storm)
20m - Wire/Aluminum 4-square of inverted L\\\'s (Comtek)
40m - Wire 4-square in the trees (Comtek)
80m - Wire 4-square of Inverted L\\\'s in the trees (Comtek)
160m - nada
Radio 2 - IC-7410
Antenna for Radio 2 is a modified ZS6BKW with an added 15m inverted Vee.
80m-6m contest bands, no 160m<<haha, with a tuner on 160m this evening.
N1MM+, CM-500 Mic, N3ZN paddle, SO2R+ box.
Thanks for the Q's
CU (all of a sudden) in the next one.
dit dit
Mike in NB, VE9AA
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