[TVARC] Florida QSO Party: W3US SOABMixed HP

[Steven Roth]

I surely regret missing the GL QSO Party.  I took our station off-the-air
on Friday and departed TV on Sunday.  It will be some days before I am back
on the air here in Virginia when I hope to catch y'all.  I will miss FL,
but it gives me a purpose to complete WAS from Virginia (I am complete from
FL).  We will be back in TV early Nov.  In the meantime, see ya on the
bands.  If you see/hear me, stop by and say hello.

Steve Roth - AD4K and Lynn Dawson - N4LMD

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 12:15 PM w3us at casa-aloha.net <w3us at casa-aloha.net>
wrote:

> Hello TVARC club mates and fellow FQP participants.
>
> The Florida QSO Party tops the favorites as everyone works Florida and
> it's a great opportunity to run stations vs. a typical search & pounce
> contest.
>
> The high level of interest from The Villages was phenomenal.  The party
> began with Bob, K3ZGA as 1st QSO (tnx Bob), then picked up George at K4VRC,
> Ken, WB2ART, Dennis, N0SMX, Joe, NK7U/4, Tom, K3WT (nice score), Ray
> ND8L/4, Ralph, N8RW, Paul, KM4PIH, Vince, K2ID, and Tony, K4QR.  Apologies
> if I missed anyone.
>
> My original goal was to make 1000 QSOs, a personal PR.  At the end of the
> first day, with 845 Qs and all states except Alaska, I reset my goal to
> 1425 QSOs and 310K points.  This just happens to be a little over the
> Sumter Co record set by Pete, K2PS in 2020.  Spoiler:  I didn’t make it.
> Pete’s achievement is safe for another year.
>
> Observations:
>
> - CW QSOs really dried up Sunday, but thankfully 20M SSB turned out to be
> a gold mine with endless callers and a surprising rate of 110 the last hour.
>
> - Strong QSB was a negative factor, especially on SSB.
>
> - My second slice was tuned to 15M most of the time, but the band was
> super disappointing with only 37 contacts
>
> - Worked 20 1x1 fixed stations, but was not able to copy any of the
> mobiles.  I knew they were having fun as I could see tremendous pileups on
> the panadapter.
>
> - Stats (just for George):  best QSO rate - 125 & 129 in the first and
> third hour, with a few burst rates of 150 lasting 16 min or less
>
> In the end, I was still missing Alaska, but a KL7 (who turned out to be in
> Arkansas) did boost the adrenalin.
>
> 73 to all and I hope you had as much fun.
>
> Rusty - W3US
>
> >                    Florida QSO Party - 2022
> >
> > Call: W3US
> > Operator(s): W3US
> > Station: W3US
> >
> > Class: SOABMixed HP
> > QTH: FL
> > Operating Time (hrs): 18
> >
> > Summary:
> > Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> > --------------------
> >   40:  207
> >   20:  494    607
> >   15:   36      1
> >   10:
> > --------------------
> > Total:  737    608  CW Mults = 77  Ph Mults = 65  Total Score = 295,360
> >
> > Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
> >
> > Comments:
> >
> > Great fun, but where was Alaska?
> > Flex 6600, PGXL, Hustler 6-BTV flagpole vertical and 20M MFJ Big Ear
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