[PVRCNC] CQWW CW N4GU SO(A)SB20 QRP

[Jim K4QPL]

Great job, Mike.  I thought I was slightly crazy to do QRP for several years
in SS. Doing it in WW is maniacal!! 
Thanks for the compliment. The whole 23 hours was an ugly pileup--worst I've
ever experienced which I attribute mostly to a) being the only possible VP5
mult; b) coming on only during the second half as fresh meat when new mults
and contacts were scarce; c) spots that put all stations on EXACTLY the same
frequency; d) an increasing number of lids who have minimal cw skills and
operate only by click and call on spots and can't even copy (or choose to
ignore) simple instructions. 
I could send 3 elements of a call I was trying to complete and still be met
by a wall of sound with the exact same tone. Smart people turn on their XIT
and move off the spot frequency by 50-100 Hz and you'll be copied.
Great fun. Full report to follow but right now it's off to my Monday reward
of SCUBA diving in the beautiful Turks and Caicos waters and underwater
coral reefs.
73,
Jim, K4QPL/VP5M

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On Behalf Of Mike Barts
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2018 7:20 PM
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Cc: Ben E. Cline <benjy at vt.edu>
Subject: [PVRCNC] CQWW CW N4GU SO(A)SB20 QRP

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

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

Class: SO(A)SB20 QRP (make your class narrow enough & you have no
competition)
QTH: North Carolina
Operating Time (hrs): 8

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
------------------------------
  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:  188    24       80
   15:
   10:
------------------------------
Total:  188    24       80  Total Score = 55,640

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:
Hey! Its the bottom of the sunspot cycle, you what would be a fun thing to
do? That's right, run a DX contest QRP!

OK, I planned an all band effort, but a mistake on my part forced me to
change it into a single band effort. At least it wasn't 10m. Or 160m (that's
next weekend). So, 20m, 5W and a 2-element beam. That meant I had time to do
some other stuff during the weekend (+). It also meant I got a lot of being
beat out in pileups (who did I think I was kidding?) (-). Call recognition
can help sometimes. K4QPL at VP5M pulled my (familiar) call out of a pretty
ugly pileup in about 2-3 calls (+). Its nice when your friends recognize
you, also a testament to Jim's ears. I did work all continents
(+) I heard a LOT of good DX I could not work (-)

Enough of this QRP stuff. Let's turn on the amps and listen to static
crashes next weekend.



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