Tennessee QSO Party - 2023
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SO FixedMixed LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 7.6
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs Mults
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160: 5 0 0 5
80: 31 8 28
40: 52 39 54
20: 32 6 27
15:
10:
6:
2:
222:
432:
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Total: 125 53 0 114 Total Score = 59,666
Club:
Comments:
The result is okay, but the effort was an effort. My run QSO's were definitely
down from what I expected. The first 2-1/2 hour were "tweener" hours
with 20 open only at best from Nashville/Chattanooga and farther west.
Absorption was high on 40 and signals were weak or in the noise with a few
louder ones. I had about 77 Q's at 21Z and 99 at 2230Z, pretty slow. Activity
was just not that high from TN. Without the great effort from Don and Jim
operating AD4EB/M, I would have a much lower score and probably would have quit.
I did stop early at 0212Z after working them in Marshall on 80 for my last QSO.
I worked them on 80/40/20 from Hardin County and think there could have been a
few more triples, but think they were too busy on 40/80 to try 20 after that.
Despite only a few loud signals on 20 from 19Z onward, they were always loud on
20 as they traversed western TN. Eastern TN would have been tough. Many thanks!
I only heard AC6ZM/M twice on 40M. K4TCG in Hamilton was worked on 160-20M bands
for 5 Q's and Kirk, K4RO on 160-20M CW.
I did a little advanced planning, checked the rules, but didn't use spotting as
much as I should have. I was feeling fairly tired after the first 3 hours and
even more so at 0015Z when I took a short break after which 80M was much better.
As usual 75M phone was vastly underutilized. By about 01Z, I heard no one there
and had no answers to CQ's. My last 75M SSB QSO was at 0050Z. Running on SSB and
CW was slow to worthless most of the time, more so than the past few years. Next
year I may pull back on the throttle.
Thanks for the Q's and 73, Jeff
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