[PVRCNC] W/VE Islands QSO Party – K4TMC Phone QRO Island Expedition

[Henry Pollock - K4TMC]

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

Class: QRO (>5W)
QTH: US Island #NC010S (also IOTA NA-112 and Grid FM14pq)
Operating Time (hrs): 11.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults  Pts
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  160:
   80:
   40:    48          3       TBD
   20:   159       35      TBD
   15:
   10:
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Total:  207      38       TBD   Total Score = TBD

Comments:

Finally got a chance to operate again at the family beach house in Atlantic
Beach, NC this weekend.  As there was no major contest in which I was
interested, I took a cue from K3ZO and looked for a more obscure effort to
operate.  Since I had ‘missed-again’ this year in operating the July IOTA
Contest, I decided to try the US Islands Award Program’s QSO Party
(USIslands.org).  Inadvertently, I also provided points for a number of
in-state KS and OH QSO Party participants.  One was a 20M CO mobile that
had just driven into KS to operate the KS QSO Party.  It was a little
confusing being called by KN4VKW, KN4VKX and KN4VKY in succession.  Neat
story – a father and 2 sons, who all passed their Extra exams on the same
day!

20M was slow with most stations just above the noise level and lots of QSB
all during the day.  Regardless, I stuck it out (BIC), picked one
frequency, and stayed there for most of the day.  Rate was low but steady.
I kept thinking - build it, run it, and they will come.  Kept checking 15
and 10 frequently, but never heard anything.  40 was not productive until
later in the day.   So…what did I do between QSOs… monitored the ham for
sale items popping up on QRZ.com and QTH.com.

Used paper logging, so still need to assess actual points per QSO, and then
determine score.

Rig: K3+/100W with Heil HC4 element

Antenna: PAR EFHW QUAD vertical (inverted-L on 40M) over 4 elevated radials
73,
Henry - K4TMC