[TVARC] FQP - good time over the weekend

[Jim Worthington]

Well done, Ken.

I operated from an RV park in Texas for a few hours using QRP (KX2) and an AlexLoop on the picnic table, CW only. I only made 31 Q’s, but had fun, and worked at least 3 TVARC members (WB2ART, N4FP, and W3US).

73/72,
Jim AD4J

> On May 1, 2023, at 7:43 AM, Ken Kaplan <wb2art at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all.
> Made 434 qso's, including dups. My best was from NY in a 10m contest (S&P-cw).
> So, I feel pretty good. Can't compete with Pete or Rusky, or anyone else for that matter, but I had fun, and my butt is still sore (BIC).
> Contest: FL QSOPARTY
>  Band     QSOs     Pts  Mul  Pt/Q
>      7      79     312    5   3.9
>     14     200     780   29   3.9
>     21     140     560   22   4.0
>  Total     419    1652   56   3.9
> Score: 92,512
> 1 Mult = 7.5 Q's
> 
> Heard Pete and Rusty on the air. Bob, K3ZGA worked me twice. Rusty called me at 100wpm (hi), but his call is short, so I got it on the first try.
> 
> Can't understand a lot of the dups. I had guys call me 1.5 hours after our original qso's. Wonder if their dup checking didn't work!!
> 
> Was a bit confused whether to send just WB2ART as I did last year (341 q's) or send WB2ART/SUM. I used WB2ART/SUM on Saturday, with 296 q's. Sunday, I left off the /SUM, until I heard Rusty sending W3US/SUM, so figured he must know better than I do.....
> All in all, a great time. Looking forward to next year, and maybe I will send faster than 18wpm (although many did not even slow down, which was ok).
> 
> 73
> Ken WB2ART
> Village of LaBelle
> KX3/PX3/KXPA100/NP2B Flagpole
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