[PVRCNC] K4TMC ARRL 10 SOLP SSB

[Henry Pollock - K4TMC]

Call: K4TMC
Operator(s): K4TMC
Station: K4TMC

Class: SO SSB LP
QTH: Raleigh, NC
Operating Time (hrs): too much

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:   0      0
  SSB:    9      6
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Total:  9       6  Total Score = 108

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:
Well, that was embarrassing and humbling…

With a rate less than 1 per hour of operating time, it doesn’t seem worth
it.  But with the weather so bad (rain, sleet & snow) it was a good excuse
to spend some time at the radio…and dreaming of bigger antennas and better
propagation.  My only excuse for the low QSO’s was (1) a S1-2 sporadic
noise on the band all weekend, which has mysteriously disappeared this
Monday morning, making it impossible to work S 0.5 signals; and (2)
orienting the fixed tree-supported yagis in the wrong directions based on
my inaccurate propagation assumptions.  It would have been nice to have had
one of those Zeppelin’s floating above the house suspending a couple of
long-boom yagis versus the ineffective vertical Zepp in the back yard.

Station: Elecraft K3/100, 4 and 6 element OWA yagis, Colinear End-fed Zepp
vertical (N1LO design)