North American QSO Party - SSB
Call: WA7BNM
Location: S.Calif
Power: 150 watts
Club/Team: SCCC
Time: 8.75 hrs
Q M
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160 4 1
80 42 10
40 53 26
20 360 56
15 78 21
10 8 1
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545 115 = 62,675
Comments:
Arrrgggghhhhh!
Bonked (cycling term) before the contest while riding and bonked during
the contest -- actually had to stop and take a nap. Pathetic! Guess I
was more tired than I realized.
Noise level was never less than S6 on 20, 15 and 10m. Could tell that
there were at least 2 layers of of signals I couldn't hear because of
the noise. On 40m and 80m, noise was never less than S9. In spite of
the QRN, managed decent rates (hours of 126 and 138) on 20 the two
times I found a good frequency. Nothing on 15m most of the day until
after 0Z. Couldn't hear on 40m and didn't seem like much activity on 80.
Good news was that conditions were so bad on 80 that it was tough to
hear the usual lids.
All in all one to forget.
73 de Bruce, WA7BNM (bhorn@netcom.com)
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