Virginia QSO Party - 2021
Call: N4CW
Operator(s): N4CW W4TMO
Station: N4CW
Class: M/SMobile LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 19:19
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 98
40: 992
20: 60
15:
10:
6:
2:
UHF:
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Total: 1150 0 0 Mults = 75 Total Score = 177,000
Club:
Comments:
Great fun, fraught with bad propagation, software failures, hardware failures,
and other bad stuff! Very enjoyable to have a loyal "entourage" follow
us both days. We were exceedingly busy, that's for sure. Many, many, thanks to
all who stuck with getting the correct exchange: in a moving car, with bumps,
potholes, and sharp curves, along with starting and stopping at traffic lights,
the "shack" wasn't a stable operating platform. Jim decided before we
left for Virginia that a wireless mouse just couldn't be contained (with motion)
on the operating "desk", so we went to a USB cable-type mouse (you
know, the PS-2 mouse???). with the cable behind the paddle (a very heavy N3ZN),
mourse "travel" was limited. Some very interesting "local
QRM" problems were discovered, example: when the Prius stopped for a light,
a tone was generated that the K3 picked up...it was probably in the power system
or even r.f. from the car's computer...so when we'd be in motion, no tone. That
tone (probably 500-600 Hz) would mask the CW being received. Sometimes, if the
station was quite strong, you could copy through the tone...most of the time,
you couldn't! It's something Jim and I need to figure out and mitigate.
On Saturday we discovered that our 20-Meter "hamstick" mobile antenna
setup blew us out of the water, crashing the logging program, etc. So we were
pretty much stuck on 40 and 80 until Jim had the idea of trying to "jumper
out" the BugCatcher coil and see if the K3 would load the antenna for 20.
Success! OTOH, that wasn't until Sunday! We did work some DX on 20 in western
Europe. Of course we worked OM2VL plenty of times, regardless of band! What was
neat was making one contact in Oregon, and the next in Europe! That's the
"magic" that really makes operating fun (along with working so many
friends over and over!)
Thanks for the Q's and your patience...look for us in the FQP next month. de
N4CW
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