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Subject: [3830] K4RO CW NAQP Single Op Score
From: K4RO Kirk Pickering <k4ro@k4ro.net> (K4RO Kirk Pickering)
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 13:41:33 -0500 (CDT)

CW NAQP SUMMARY SHEET
    Contest Dates : 07-Aug-99, 08-Aug-99

 Station Used : K4RO       Operator : K4RO
      Default Exchange : KIRK TN

 Category : Single Op      Team/Club : Tennessee Contest Group # 1


   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults   
 __________________________________________________

  160CW       62          62         62      22 
   80CW      145         145        145      42 
   40CW      221         215        215      40 
   20CW      171         169        169      42 
   15CW       59          59         59      23 
   10CW       16          16         16       8 
 __________________________________________________

 Totals      674         666        666     177 


    Final Score = 117,882 points.


About 1600Z Saturday I threw my lower back out.  It was all I could
do to crawl to the radio chair.  Even with 1.5 grains of codiene in 
me, I was still seeing stars and in tears through much of the contest.
Definately the most painful time I've ever spent in front of the
radio.  Fortunately, it turned out that sitting erect was one of the
few tolerable positions.  That plus not wanting to let down my TCG
team members, I stuck it out.  The real fun was trying to get into
and out of the chair.  If you've had back pain, you know what I am
talking about.  If you haven't, consider yourself very lucky.  Off
times were dictated by both rate and pain.  I took breaks earlier
than usual, which was perhaps not such a bad idea.

NAQP is still one of my favorite contests, even with the sometimes
poor conditions we get in the August edition.  Couldn't get anything
going on 10 or 15 meters, and had a pitiful 10 meter multiplier number.
All of my 10 and 15 meter QSOs were S&P on the second radio, as I could
not get answers to CQs on those bands.  Hopefully made up for some of 
the poor mult count on 160, where I was able to hear fairly well thanks 
to the Beverages installed in February.  The high N4KG 40m boom dipole 
works fine at 100W, and gave me the biggest QSO band this time.

Pushed the second radio harder than ever, keeping it "active" for
most of the contest.  Usually I just check it every now and then, but
this time I made over 220 band changes and over 100 QSO's on rig 2.
Starting to feel a little more confident about using it.  Plus, I
can always find another CQ frequency in the NAQP if I lose it.  I also 
CQed on rig 2 for the first time, starting to eliminate the distinction 
between a "main" and "S&P" radio.  Still need more A/B antenna switching 
to make that a reality.  

I've got to get with the mult moving game.  The biggest problem is that
I still don't have a real good feel for what can be moved where and when.
Made maybe 10 successful moves and a few unsuccessful ones.

Nice to see the DX activity including LU, UT, KH6, KP2/4, and also 11-year
old Laurie KE6YNW in there.  Congrats to all the TCG team players for
a great effort.  See you in the SSB edition, and thanks for the QSOs.

-Kirk  K4RO

                            Rate K4RO NAQP CW Aug 99

  HOUR  160CW    80CW    40CW    20CW    15CW    10CW    TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
   18       0       0       0      57      25       6      88      88
   19       0       0       0      11       4       0      15     103
   20       0       0       9      26       4       3      42     145
   21       0       0      28      25       1       1      55     200
   22       0       0      49       6       8       5      68     268
   23       0       0      25       2      10       1      38     306
    0       0       0      33      17       5       0      55     361
    1       0      21      21      24       1       0      67     428
    2       0      69      17       1       0       0      87     515
    3      35       3       0       0       0       0      38     553
    4      15      37      12       0       0       0      64     617
    5      12      15      22       0       1       0      50     667

  TOTAL    62     145     216     169      59      16  



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