[PVRCNC] Fw: NAQP CW K4QPL Single Op LP

[Jim K4QPL]

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Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 11:07 AM
Subject: NAQP CW K4QPL Single Op LP


>                    North American QSO Party, CW - August
>
> Call: K4QPL
> Operator(s): K4QPL
> Station: K4QPL
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: NC
> Operating Time (hrs): 9.8
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:
>   80:   96    33
>   40:  202    47
>   20:  244    45
>   15:  119    37
>   10:   14    11
> -------------------
> Total:  675   173  Total Score = 116,775
>
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
>
> Team: PVRC Team 2
>
> Comments:

Great PVRC participation and enjoyed working team players. Thanks for all 
the Q's
>
> NAQP, in my opinion, is the perfect SO contest. Right length, right times, 
> and
> right rules. 100W rule makes it "wind in your face" to deal with the 
> elements
> of propagation, QRN, etc. with no rock crushers on the band to hammer the 
> 1G
> and 2G second (or primary) radios out there.
>
> Great to see a 5 or 6 band domestic contest again. My 160 antenna is down 
> so
> don't know what I missed there. As noisy as 80 was, probably nothing much. 
> 15
> played pretty well but the fast QSB could make a station go from S9 to
> unreadable from initial contact to copying his exchange. That's when I 
> wished
> for a stack instead of my 75' tribander.
>
> QRN was a factor here, even on 20, but at least no active lightning. In 
> fact,
> took a half hour break at 0120 just to let 40 settle down. My north 
> beverage
> was out so mostly used Tx antenna on 80. Could only copy the west coast 
> with
> the west beverage so had a lot of manual switching.
>
> Taking into account the QSB and QRN and a 2G second radio with limited 
> antenna
> options I just didn't have the capability or skills for much SO2R. Found 
> my
> rate was better concentrating on copying one radio and just using the 
> second to
> check band conditions.
>
> Overall, a great contest and a warmup for SS.
73,

Jim, K4QPL