California QSO Party - 2023
Call: K3PAX
Operator(s): KB3VQC WA3EKL KC3VBH KC3WNF N3DPB
Station: N3DPB
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: SEVERN, MD
Operating Time (hrs): 8:16
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 0 0
80: 18 1
40: 17 19
20: 0 42
15: 40 0
10: 32 5
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Total: 107 67 Mults = 74 Total Score = 21,291
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was basically a CW contest. Propagation was so poor that SSB was
difficult. Anything we could hear we could work despite running less than 100
watts. We were also in the Russian digital contest and sharing antennas between
the two stations.
The poor propagation slow contact progress was an advantage for us because we
were introducing a new couple to contesting for the very first time. That gave
them plenty of time to start learning the station equipment and the computer
programs we use without being thrown in front of a radio and being subjected to
multiple stations coming back to them at once. They had a great time and are
looking forward to next weekend's four state QSO Parties. The normal station
ops had a great time also and the food was excellent as usual.
The fact is that Morse code, at times, may be the only reliable means of
communications and we all should master it at some speed. It is not an
antiquated mode. In a real disaster when there is no power, no internet, no cell
phones and only "us" we certainly don't want to be standing there with
our thumb's in our grommets saying my "my mic's broken and I don't know the
Morse code so I can't help you." Then when it's all over the higher
authorities might take a hard look at us and determine just how useful we really
are in a disaster to provide that emergency communication. Code might save your
life some day.
73 from our crew, KB3VQC WA3EKL KC3VBH KC3WNF N3DPB
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