[PVRCNC] NAQP SSB NR4O Single Op LP

[Eric Wagner]

> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: August 18, 2019 at 1:18:57 AM EDT
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, nr4o at att.net
> Subject: NAQP SSB NR4O Single Op LP
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> 
>                    North American QSO Party, SSB - August
> 
> Call: NR4O
> Operator(s): NR4O
> Station: NR4O
> 
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: NC - FM05
> Operating Time (hrs): 10
> Radios: SO2R
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>  160:    4     3
>   80:  106    21
>   40:  163    35
>   20:   30    15
>   15:    2     1
>   10:    2     1
> -------------------
> Total:  307    76  Total Score = 23,332
> 
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
> 
> Team: PVRC North Carolina East Team #1
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Boy it was a rough start to this one.  Conditions on 20M were really tough. The
> band was noisy and I had some local RFI that would show up randomly and wipe out
> the band.  Installed a new Flex 6600 this week replacing my FTdx3000.  The
> receiver is quite nice and proved to be excellent on the crowed 40M and 80M
> bands.  But, it didn't come without some hiccups.  I had to restart the SSDR SW
> and N1MM a couple times because of network response time issues.  I started
> operating using the Maestro.  That didn't really work out so well.  Seems like
> the Maestro and N1MM had a hard time staying synced. I think the Maestro is
> under powered to handle all the network traffic.  The N1MM spectrum display
> seemed to get confused easily when changing bands. Once I shut the Maestro down
> and just ran SSDR on my desktop everything stabilized for a couple hours.  But,
> the Flex rebooted without warning for some unknown reason.  No problems after
> the reboot.  Given I only had a couple days to learn the radio controls, there
> were a few operator induced cockpit errors changing bands on the run radio when 
> I meant to tune the S&P radio.  I've got a lot to learn about how best to
> utilize the new radio.  The second half of the contest went much better with a
> couple of decent runs on 40 and 80 when the sun started going down.  I ran out
> of gas around 11pm when the rate really dropped.  I did make a few 160M Q's with
> folks in VA, MD and PA.  Heard a few mid-westerners, but they couldn't hear me.
> 
> As usual, still a fun contest where I don't have to get sleep deprived. 
> 73 and thanks for the Q's.  
> 
> Eric - NR4O
> 
> 
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