Arizona QSO Party - 2021
Call: K7ZOO
Operator(s): K7ZOO
Station: K7ZOO
Class: Cnty Exped SO LP
QTH: La Paz
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160: 2 2
80: 5 11
40: 50 14 1
20: 105 46 10
15: 14 13
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 176 86 11 CW Mults = 50 Ph Mults = 32 Dig Mults = 10 Total
Score = 42,236
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
Great contest! Thank you to ALL of the people I contacted. Notable QSO's:
OM2VL (multiple contacts, and one SSB!); KI6RRN (thanks for spurring me down to
160m!); W7A (who persevered with my weak 80 m signal and got me 100 bonus
points!); KG6T/M (great job running around AZ with a mobile setup!). In
addition: good propagation, low noise, and parallel contests to visit and
capture QSO's. I used a newly-acquired Yaesu FTdx10 (GREAT rig!), 135 ft
non-resonant doublet inverted V at 28 ft; 20m 1/4 vertical w/ 4 elevated
radials, 100w solar panel --> 135 amp-hour of SLAB capacity. My
unfamiliarity with the radio cost me 4 hours "off the air": I must
have changed some setting, as the output power went down to ZERO! I had to set
aside my Yaesu and deployed the backup rig: FT-817nd. I started watching
training videos on JS8Call (blah), and instead made some PSK31 contacts. After
four hours a text conversation with K7WSC prompted me to reset the FTdx10
firmware to the factory settings -- thankfully that restored the Yaesu's power!
It's an amazing radio; the user just needs more training. I operated from BLM
land about 3 miles SE of the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. Hope to catch you
all next year :) de K7ZOO
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