Florida QSO Party - 2022
Call: AA4TI
Operator(s): AA4TI
Station: AA4TI
Class: Cnty ExpedMixed LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 266 46
20: 1170 310
15: 264 14
10: 2 0
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Total: 1702 370 CW Mults = 73 Ph Mults = 39 Total Score = 845,376
Club: Florida Contest Group
Comments:
Lots of interesting challenges this year. Operation from my first county line
on Saturday was fair, but not great. The second county line was going quite
well until I had to stop in the middle of a run to anchor my antenna when the
wind picked up to over 25mph. Then, there was another interruption when
overhead lightning dictated that I disconnect the antenna and hunker down while
it stormed all around me. I didn't get home from the Saturday operations until
after 12:30am. Then, I had to get up early for the Sunday operations. I got to
my first county line on Sunday morning, got set up and waited for the party to
resume at 10am...Yep, I said 10am. Apparently, somewhere in my operating plan I
had a senior moment and decided to change the start time. So, right off the bat
on Sunday I was two hours late getting out of the gate. Since I was unassisted,
I did not see any spots for FQP stations. If I had been assisted, I would
likely have noticed all the spots and band map and figured out the error in my
ways. My first county line on Sunday was a struggle for contacts. I was
located in a field next to a water melon processing facility and bees/lovebugs
were thick. Sweating like crazy in the hot sun/vehicle attracts bees, and after
several gentle swipes to scare off the bees, one of them found success on my
left leg and stung me. This created a major issue since many of you know that I
use my left foot to send CW. On the plus side, the owner of the water melon
facility told me to help myself to a few melons. My second county line
operation went much better until my radio decided to refuse to operate correctly
on 15M SSB. I rebooted everything a couple times, but for some reason, the
radio would lock up in TX as soon as I said the first syllable into the mic.
I'm hoping that a reboot to factory defaults will fix the issue. Finally, at
6PM, I was thinking I still had two more hours of contest because of my 10am
start. I switched over to SSB and after quite a few CQ's with only a few
contacts, a Wisconsin station advised me that the contest was over...Duh. So, I
dutifully scrubbed the last few contacts from my log, kicked myself in the butt
for being careless and called it a day. All in all, it was exhausting, but
still a great SQP.
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