Florida QSO Party - 2023
Call: N4CW
Operator(s): N4CW W4TMO
Station: N4CW
Class: M/M MobileMixed LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 416 4
20: 2018 71
15: 647 17
10:
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Total: 3081 92 CW Mults = 64 Ph Mults = 33 Total Score = 1,213,276
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
It was a pleasure operating in this FQP again. Thanks to the FQP organization.
This year Jim, W4TMO, and I (Bert, N4CW) decided to try something different:
we’d operate SSB along with CW. Jim planned the route and later changed it to
include some of the less-frequented “panhandle” counties. Since Jim did all
the
driving, for him to operate meant having to stop somewhere and operate while
NOT driving! Jim suggested operating on county lines – great idea! That way
he
would optimize the number of contacts given out on SSB! I tried to operate
mostly on CW with rare (and painful) excursions onto phone.
Statistics: 3173 Valid Q’s, of which 92 were SSB, the rest CW. We logged 565
different callsigns, 257 of which we worked only once. I believe we operated
from six county lines the first day and six more the second…that’s just
county
LINES. We did operate from 34 different counties! Many, many stations followed
us both days, and the “Top Five” were K1GQ (Bill) who followed us in 33
counties and provided 78 Q’s, K9CT (unbelievable performance with 100W!)
55 Q’s, 30 counties, OM2VL (Laci) 54 Q’s, 31 counties, K7SV (Lar) 50 Q’s,
31
counties, and W3MA, 47 Q’s, 29 counties. In the interest of brevity I chose to
describe only the “Top Five” in our long list of Q’s, but our sincere
gratitude
to all who made the effort to work us and succeeded.
Conclusion: It was an exhausting weekend. We drove from Raleigh, NC, to
Montgomery, AL on Friday so we could start in the “panhandle” of Florida,
yet that was 2-1/2 hours from Montgomery! Our first night ended in Palatka
where we stayed. Sunday morning we drove to the water’s edge in Flagler county
and were within 50 feet of crashing waves, a beautiful sight and a great way to
start the day. We finished the day somewhere north of Melbourne and drove to
Kingsland,GA to spend the night. From there it only took us 5-1/2 to 6 hours to
get back home. Like I said, “exhausting”!
Many thanks to all our “supporters”. 73 – Bert & Jim
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