[TVARC] FT Roundup K2PS

[K2PS Pete Stafford]

Call: K2PS <https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K2PS> 
Operator(s): K2PS <https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K2PS> 
Station: K2PS

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Location: USA


Summary:   Compare Scores
<https://www.3830scores.com/comparescores.php?arg=PNgfqbzRmfvae&call=K2PS> 


Band

QSOs

		

80:

			

40:

127

		

20:

69

		

15:

10

		

10:

			

Total:

206

State/Prov

45

Countries

25

Total Score

14,420

 

Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club

Imagine - a contest where you can do all sorts of other things (the dishes,
laundry, pay bills, watch TV etc.) while stoking the competitive juices!  I
know lots of you think that FT8 isn't real ham radio and thus can't be real
contesting, but I would disagree.  In this one, limited to 100W, decisions
needed to be made constantly - what band to be on, of course, but also, do
we shift to FT4, where the back and forth is quicker, but where the software
has less time to correctly decipher the calls and exchanges, or the more
lengthy (twice as long) exchanges in FT8?  And the old questions about
calling CQ vs. S&P are still there.  I did find that S&P was often more
productive than waiting for CQ responses, but the downside was that I had
less time to load the dishwasher!  I wrestled with what to do when my
initial response to a CQ went unanswered - do I call someone else - or
should I wait and try the first guy again?  Sometimes I'd find myself
answering the wrong guy, and then things got really messy.  But we're all
still in a learning curve with this mode of contesting.

 

Anyhow, I enjoyed it.  Sometimes it's fun to do new and different things.
But my real focus is on this coming weekend with the ARRL 10 Meter Contest.
I'll get my 4 element yagi up sometime this week, and will pray for the
propagation gods to bless us.

 

73, Pete, K2PS

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