[PVRCNC] [PVRC] NAQP - NC4KW (N1LN)

[Jim Jordan]

NAQP - NC4KW (N1LN)Good effort, guys.

I got home and out to the shack about 8:30 and thought I'd give out a few Q's. Took a quick listen on 20 and it was so dead I thought something was wrong with my radio.

40 was out because a big tree partially downed by the windstorm a couple weeks ago had to be taken out and all the wires were in the vicinity so everything was on the ground. Ditto the 160 inverted V.

So went to 80 and heard a lot of activity. No one answered. SWR off the chart on the Orion and reading "SWR High". Tuner and MFJ box all read the same. Too dark to investigate. Checked the dipole/vee today and see a branch had fallen across it and broken the safety link at the top and the whole antenna was lying on the ground. It's up again now, but my statistics are:

0      0       0

The positive side was that for receiving I could hear everyone very clearly with no noise. I've come up with a new name for the antenna: 

Dipole On Ground, or DOG!

73,

Jim, K4QPL
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bruce Meier 
  To: 'PVRCNC' ; 'PVRC' 
  Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 10:15 AM
  Subject: [PVRC] NAQP - NC4KW (N1LN)


  North American QSO Party, SSB

  Call: NC4KW

  Operator(s): NT4D, W4KAZ, N1YXU, W4SAR, N1LN

  Station: N1LN

  Class: M/2 LP

  QTH: NC

  Operating Time (hrs): 12

  Summary:

   Band  QSOs  Mults

  -------------------

    160:  168    40

     80:  381    52

     40:  371    44

     20:  110    22

     15:   11     3

     10:    0     0

  -------------------

  Total: 1041   161  Total Score = 167,601

  Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

  Team: 

  Comments:

  Our assumption going into this weeks NAQP was that we would turn in a higher

  score than we did for CW.  NOT TO BE.   Not only did we have a worse time on

  15mtrs, we could never get anything going on 20.   Not sure if it was

  conditions, activity or just us, but 20 mtrs was painful.   It will be

  interesting to read how other stations in our general area did on 20 mtrs.

  Life got better as we gave up on 20 and moved full time to 40, 80 and 160. Note

  the word better and not BEST.   The best rates we had were on 80 and 160. 

  Bring on the sun spots so we can get all the bands back.

  Thanks for all for the Qs and the repeats.

  73,

  Bruce - N1LN

  (aka: NC4KW - Pat)




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