Florida QSO Party
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOABCW LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 25
20: 130
15: 1
10: 0
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Total: 156 0 CW Mults = 55 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 34,320
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
My effort can best be described as "a series of unfortunate events" none
of which had to do with equipment or antenna problems. Conditions were
really terrible Saturday. On top of that, I was in the midst of tearing
down a no longer used play gym that was built like a battleship and my
daughter had a soccer game at 1915Z. When I returned about 2045Z the
northern half of Florida was skipping over here already and I knew the
final nail had been put in the coffin. N FL stations started peaking
almost due West on backscatter around 23Z, but the mobiles of course
could not hear me and in most cases I could not hear them. I quit at
0025Z having tried CQ's on 40 and working out all the home stations down
there. The band was wide open to FL, but the "big gun" mobiles just
weren't showing up. All day Saturday, I was getting beaten out by many
stations farther away from FL especially in the mobile pile-ups.
Sunday conditions improved somewhat; by 14Z when I started 20M was
opening up and by 1430Z was good to N FL. However 15 never opened; I
managed 1 backscatter QSO with WK2G/4 hearing a couple of others who
couln't hear me. During the day I did pretty well breaking the pile-ups,
but by 20Z the skip zone was back to north FL and the pile-ups on the
mobiles which were the only ones left to work were as big as a rare DX
station. W4OV/M in "rare" DAD was peaking S9+10 db and it took me 5
minutes to break the pile-up, not my idea of fun and a bit too much of
a challenge. Pulling weeds was more mentally rewarding than the FQP.
See you again in the next solar cycle, til then ??
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