Pennsylvania QSO Party
Call: K4AQ
Operator(s): K4AQ
Station: K4AQ
Class: Single Op CW QRP
QTH: Kill Devil Hills, NC
Operating Time (hrs): 3.0 (22 max)
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 33
20:
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 33 0 Mults = 27 Total Score = 3,073.0
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
http://www.nittany-arc.net/parules.html
My third PaQP:
Score CW Ph Pts Mult Bonus Time
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2004* 3,073 33 0 49.5 27 2x200 3.0
2003** 12,180 71 32 145.0 42 zilch 9.2
2002** 13,765 66 44 148.5 45 2x200 13.2
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*K4AQ, ARLHS Convention, Kill Devil Hills, NC, Grid: FM25ex
35.99995 -75.64826, 35 59.997 -75 38.8956,
35d 59m 60s -75d 38m 54s
**WB6BWZ, Atlanta, GA
Score includes QRP Bonus Multiplier (2x) and W3UU Bonus Station contacts
(2).
Very part-time operation from the third annual ARLHS (Amateur Radio
Lighthouse Society) Convention (Clarion Hotel On the Ocean), Kill Devil
Hills (next to Kitty Hawk), North Carolina.
http://www.choicehotels.com/ires/hotel/nc416
http://arlhs.com/
My hotel room was on the fourth (top) floor, westside, second room south
of center (front of building). Nominal noise level was S-8 (500 Hz IF
filter) and no pre-amp. (The nominal noise level at my home QTH in
Atlanta is S-9.)
I used an OCF 28-gauge insulated wire stealth antenna, approx 100 feet
end-to-end, installed Friday night after 0100 ET. From my balcony, one
wire was "sling-shot'd" into a low pine tree about 45 degrees left of
vertical and 10 feet away from the building. (Half-ounce fishing lead
weight were attached to the wire ends.) The other wire was dropped into
low shrubs about 5 degrees right of vertical and 3 feet away from the
building. The excess wire was allowed to bunch on the shrubs (end loaded
coil? hi).
Both wires were brought together and tied to the balcony steel railing
with a velcro strap. The wires were twisted together loosely for about 8
feet, routed through the balcony doorway, and attached to an SGC SG-211
Smartuner.
The antenna tuned up fine on all bands, 160-10m, but my operating time
from convention activities limited me to 40m for the PaQP.
I removed the antenna after 2330 ET Tuesday night.
Only one ARLHS member, located in a room below me, noticed the antenna.
I was his prime suspect when he remembered that I operated from the
ARLHS convention hotel at St Simons Inn at the Lighthouse (in Georgia)
with indoor reel dipole and 80-ft loop antennas. (St Simons Inn 4th
floor suites had no balconies or windows that opened to the outside.)
http://www.StSimonsInn.com/
Yaesu FT-897 transceiver operated at 5 watts into an OCF 28-gauge
insulated wire stealth antenna up 35 feet (described above). SGC SG-211
Smartuner. MicroHAM USB rig interface. WriteLog 10.48f.
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Matt Lee, K4AQ
Atlanta, GA USA
<K4AQ@arrl.net>
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