Texas QSO Party - 2019
Call: N4CD
Operator(s): N4CD
Station: N4CD
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
6:
2:
UHF:
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Total: 1024 41 0 Mults = 106 Total Score = 354,824
Club:
Comments:
Headed south 2 days before to run some Parks on the Air. Started southwest of
San Antonio at the Frio/Medina line Saturday morning and headed north from
there stopping in Abilene TX at the LaQuinta for Saturday night. I usually stop
by 6pm - not a fan of night driving. Dinner at the 5 D BBQ place next door to
the motel. The first line was 30 miles away.
I was raring to go but it was too early. Stopped by the Discount Tire store at
8am and got some air in tires. My little tire inflator died earlier than
morning and tires needed a few pounds more air. Out by 8:15 and off to the
line. Got there and sat 15 minutes until the QP started. Well, actually made
some QSOs on 30M for the county hunters. Then it was off to the races at 9am
- sat there for an hour putting Qs into the log.
95% of contacts made in the QP were when I was stopped - with just search and
pounce for mobiles in between stops. There's lots of miles to drive in central
TX to get from one place to another. Worked 10 Alabama counties in that QP
with W4AN and KN4Y mobiles there and a half dozen fixed stations.
The weather was sizzling warm with temps running at 99F both days and lots of
sun. Speed limit on the roads is 70-75 mph in rural TX. Stopped at 4 parks
during the trip to put out those Parks on the Air as well (Garner State Park,
Abiline State Park, Palo Pinto Mountains State Park, and Lake Mineral Wells
State Park) and maybe attract a few more park chasers into the mix. Didn't
have too much luck on 20M SSB as the bands were full of high power TX stations,
usual nets, Alabama QSO Party stations, and generally poor conditions on SSB for
a mobile, so just ran 20M SSB at the parks - and not all that many takers. Was
able to spot on all but one county line.
Went through two quarts of water a day. $27/day in gas and $80/night in motels.
Next morning on Sunday had to wait and wait till 9am. Up at 6:30. Had breakfast
at the motel. Walked across the street and bought a Sunday paper ($2) and read
it end to end. Surfed the internet. Drove the 10 miles to the
Jones/Shackelford line and waited for the start. Ran the county line on 30m for
the county hunters before 9am. From here headed east stopping to run the day's
counties/parks on the way back toward Dallas - a five hour drive.
Worked 42 states - missing AK, NH, ME, NV, ND, WY, ND. Put DX stations in log
including F, DL, HA, ON, JA and 3 Canadian Provinces. Caught 58 TX counties
with 10Qs from AD4DB, five from N5NA for 1,500 bonus points, and just a couple
from W3DYA, KO5G, N8AI, and KS5A. Heard W5CT all along my route S5-S7 on 20M
but not much joy getting heard. 40M was the main band for working other TX
stations.
W0BH/m was missed for all those panhandle counties - MIA this year due to
illness.
W3DYA/m got frustrated with the poor conditions and didn't run on Sunday.
Missed those counties.
Score is approximate...still doing double checking on the logs which were all on
paper and now entered into the computer using FLE (Park Activators program)
Activated 19 counties with 5 or more Qs for 19,000 bonus points.
73 de N4CD
Rig: IC-706, 500 Hz CW filter, six foot mast on trunk deck mag mount on the
2016 trusty Chevy Malibu with 105,000 miles, with the resonators horizontal for
17, 20, 30 and 40M.
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