Great job George. I ran assisted and that really helped my score with the multipliers I was able to find.
Wind storm last week broke my 160 feed line at the top plus broke both legs in their middle. Not wanting to miss 160, I decided to try disconnecting the feed line to my 80/40 antenna where it enters the house, shorted the feedline coax connector, and fed the whole thing as a long wire. SWR was 8:1, but Flex 6400 tuned it great and I made 14 contacts/11 multipliers in 19 minutes from Ontario through Indiana into Texas and the rest closer. Worth the effort.
Marty and I do cause a lot of interference between our stations so I couldn't run when she was operating unless I was on my Hy-Gain 640 vertical. She voluntarily limited her time to 5 hours, so I did have some good runs. We each need a complete set of bandpass filters and some work to minimize our interference. That is in our plan. Multi-band non-resonate antennas do have their issues.
73,
Wayne, N4FP
Ocala,FL
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-------- Original message --------
Date: 8/7/22 8:20 AM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [TVARC] Fwd: NAQP CW K2DM Single Op LP
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>
> North American QSO Party, CW - August
>
> Call: K2DM
> Operator(s): K2DM
> Station: K2DM
>
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: NFL
> Operating Time (hrs): 8
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Mults
> -------------------
> 160:
> 80: 74 20
> 40: 117 32
> 20: 337 47
> 15: 156 35
> 10: 45 24
> -------------------
> Total: 729 158 Total Score = 115,182
>
> Club: The Villages Amateur Radio Club
>
> Team: TVARC #1
>
> Comments:
>
> Well, that was a lot of fun. I operated from The Land using Station #1 while
> Ray, ND8L used Station #2. This was the first time I can remember that TVARC
> had fielded teams in NAQP - three teams of five ops each. Ray and I were on
> TVARC #1 along with N8RW, K2TE and KD4G.
> We haven't quite mastered the art of registering all of our operators on
> contestonline, but about eight of us made it there. It was fun to follow our
> progress throughout. CW is alive and well in The Villages!
> I had planned to put in ten hours, but after I hit 700 Qs I started getting
> antsy. So when the Yankees game ended (another loss to St. Louis, darn it) I
> decided to try 160M then leave. It turned out that my 160M antenna had decided
> to quit working, so that was all she wrote.
> All in all it was a blast!
>
> 73,
George K2DM
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