CAL QSO PARTY SUMMARY SHEET
N5NU, Douglass TX
CW SSB Total
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160 1 0 1
80 14 10 24
40 31 39 70
20 32 71 103
15 46 121 167
10 13 61 74
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TOTALS 137 302 439
1015 X 58 = 58890
Soaps:
I woke up Saturday morning sometime around 8 AM or so unaware that there
was a contest that was going to be in progress shortly. Later when I
ambled on into the radio room and flipped on the radio, I found a contest
underway. Hence, the first QSO at 18:23. The first 10 minutes resulted in
33 QSO's on 10 SSB. However, it didn't pick up much after that.
I mostly S & P'ed around some and occasionally called CQ. I first went
to
20 meters late, sometime about 30 minutes after sunset to find the band in
full swing.
I promptly plopped down in the vicinity of 14.267.8 or so and ran a
string
of stations, and had a 61 hour. I got tired after a while, and went and
watched the Braves complete their sweep of the Cubbies.
At 10 PM, I came back to a dead 20 meters. I went to 40 with limited
success. I then went to SSB expecting the worst. Yup... RF got into the
headset itself and I could only run 5 watts. I got tired of that, went out
to the truck and ransacked the 2 meter radio of its microphone, hooked it
up, and fired up the amplifier. I noticed that 500 watts has a lot more
punch than 5. My last multiplier called in there. (Thanks K6HY, 0542z)
After a while I went to 80, but the tuner wouldn't tune it. I ran
around
50 watts and worked what I could phone and went to CW. CW was a bit better
because thats what the antennas built for. From there was 160. That was a
waste of time. I heard N6O and struggled through a murderous low power QSO
with them until departing.
I went to bed with a sweep and a smile. Got up on Sunday, and went to
church and didn't sit down until 1 PM. I fiddled around for 4 hours and
turned it off. So thats about it....
Somewhere about 12 hours.
73, Jason N5NU
PS, I even heard VR98BG on 10CW Sat night. I'm really excited about my
first sunspot cycle..
n5nu@inu.net
http://www.inu.net/n5nu/
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