[PVRCNC] N4GU NxQP

[mike at bentwire.net]

A twofer of QP's this weekend!

QP#1
                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - February

Call: K4FQU
Operator(s): N4GU
Station: K4FQU

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:  141    36
   40:  115    31
   20:  101    34
   15:   59    26
   10:   24    16
-------------------
Total:  440   143  Total Score = 62,920

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: PVRC Well-Rounded

Comments: Slow start on 10 and 15 but once the lower bands got going it
got pretty good. If the score holds up in log checking it should be a new
NC record for this contest ..... barring some better ops in-state.


QP#2

                    North Carolina QSO Party

Call: N4GU
Operator(s): N4GU
Station: N4GU

Class: Cnty Exped LP
QTH: WILSON
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
   80:    0      4      0
   40:   91     43      0
   20:   79     88      0
   15:   23      0      0
   10:    0      0      0
    6:    0      0      0
    2:    0      0      0
----------------------------
Total:  193    135      0  Mults = 90  Total Score = 76,710

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments: My first time in the NCQP despite living here for about 6 years.
Went out to the MIL's farm in Wilson country since a) no one was announced
to activate it, and b) had not operated from out there before (possible
remote/2nd station location). After a fairly late finish in NAQP RTTY, I
got up early Sunday and headed to the farm. Erected an OCFD in a tree by
the house and was feeling pretty good about things. That's when it started
going downhill. First I realized that I had left my headset at home, so no
phone operation and was stuck listening to the back-firing speaker in the
TS-480. Then the laptop didn't recognize the USB-to-serial adapter despite
having just loaded the drivers the day before to confirm everything was
working. Of course, the driver disk was at home sitting by my headset.

Began the contest working cw Qs as best as I could. I know some of my dear
friends must have thought I had lost my mind those first couple of Qs. Lid
would be a generous description. Oh, and the paddle I brought with me
decided to make contact on the dah side just every once in a while, so no
hand sending either. Bumbled my way along for a couple of hours until the
XYL arrived with the long lost headset and driver disk. From that point on,
everything was fine except for the lull in activity mid-late afternoon. Or
maybe that was just me. I ended up working two other Wilson stations on
phone but do believe I was the only one on cw. Tnx for the Qs and see you
next year!

73, Mike N4GU