North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: NN7CW
Operator(s): NN7CW
Station: NN7CW
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 20 14
80: 288 47
40: 399 56
20: 222 51
15: 84 22
10: 1 1
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Total: 1014 191 Total Score = 193,674
Club: Florida Contest Group
Team: OJ-1
Comments:
I really like this one! Perfect duration for not losing too much of the weekend
to recover from a long work week.
After starting about 45 minutes late (dealing Windows network problems and a
buggy home-brew interlock switch), I spent as much time as possible running on
15 (2 element beam @45ft), because I was trying to get my 15m WAS count up a
little. So 20 took a back seat and I mostly did S&P, using my 5/8 vertical.
I found that many people went down pretty early while 15 was still partially
open, because the occasional calls I got at the end were still decently strong.
Needless to say, no one wasted any time on 10, so who knows what sporadically
could have been up there.
When I finally started using the 2 element beam on 20, the band was already on
its way out and 40 was hopping, so I did a slow run on 20 and searched and
pounced my way across 40, using the 40m vertical. When 20 dried up, it was time
to try out my new 80m vertical, so running on 40 and S&P on 80 it was. I
spent about 30 minutes on 160 (Inverted L) and started running on 80 when the
rate on 40 went down and that's pretty much the end of the story.
It was funny to see how many people wouldn't believe their ears when I gave them
my name. Made me wonder how the ones with the really unusual nicknames (my
favorite one I heard is "Chick") were doing...
Thanks everyone, I had a blast!
73, Wolf
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