North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: K4BAI
Operator(s): K4BAI
Station: K4BAI
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 23 16
80: 92 31
40: 82 33
20: 336 58
15: 9 6
10: 0 0
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Total: 542 144 Total Score = 78,048
Club: South East Contest Club
Team: SCCC #2
Comments:
Had trouble with the NCJ website getting the team fully registered. Came home
from grandchildren's basketball game 5 minutes before the start. The website
was up and got the team SECC/GCG re-registered with all five members. 15 seemed
dead at the start but a few QSYs and some listening brought a few QSOs, some
surprising. Seemed the band was open some and few were taking advantage of it.
20M was quite good including some short skip allowing QSOs with close by states,
which is unusual. Worked AK, HI, and VY1 on 20M. 40M was terribly
disappointing. Dipole antenna may not be quite as high as in the past, but it
worked wonderfully on 40 last weekend. The 80M inverted vee is cut for the low
end of the band and the antenna tuners in the TS590S and the FT1000MP couldn't
get the SWR to where I could run over about 15 watts. So, not good results on
that band, but it seemed pretty good except to the west coast. N9RV was quite
strong. 160M has a compromise antenna that never works well with low power or
QRP, especially on SSB, so it was OK. I figured out before the SSB contest what
the problem was not being able to work 160M in the CW NAQP. Completely operator
error. Thanks for all QSOs and Happy New Year to all. 73, John, K4BAI
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