Hi all,
Here is my score for the 2005 Mid-Atlantic QSO Party which was held May 14th
and 15th.
Entry Class: Mobile
Total QSOs = 311
CW = 118 x 2 = 236 QSO points
SSB/FM = 156 x 1 = 156 QSO points
Mobile = 37 x 3 = 111 QSO points
Total QSO points = 503
Multipliers: 90
503 QSO points X 90 multipliers = 45,270 = Final Score
I worked 40 states, 4 Canadian provinces, 45 Mid-Atlantic counties, and
several DX stations for the count of 1 DX multiplier.
I operated from 9 counties: In NJ they were: Cape May, Cumberland,
Salem, Gloucester,
and
Camden.
In PA they were: Philadelphia,
Delaware, Montgomery, and
Chester.
Conditions were fair to good for the first 5 hours of the contest and
steadily degraded from that point.
Saturday night brought a solar flare
On Sunday morning, conditions were so bad that the second day of the test I
spent 2 hours operating stationary in some counties logging only 10 to 15
contacts and had to "create" them by using 2 meter FM simplex, digging out
what
I could on HF which was often weak and fluttery, QSYing stations on 20 meters
to CW or SSB, asking rag chewing stations for a quick QSO after a diplomatic
breaking in, and QSYing with local stations to as many bands as possible.
I worked several local stations on everything from 80 meters all the way up
to 2 meter FM simplex, except 6 meters.
The majority of my QSO were outside the Mid-Atlantic region on 20 meters as
very little in-region stations were being heard via short skip on any band.
The consensus is that in-region stations were on the air but that short skip
was all but obliterated by the solar flare.
Stations outside the Mid-Atlantic region were working us, but in-region
stations were not working each other, or at least not as easily or often as
in-region was working out-of-region, and even the out-of-region QSOs were
sometimes difficult.
All in all, a fun contest with great potential (this was only the second
year) and when I look back, the conditions made it challenging if however
difficult, hi hi.
73 to all,
73,
Tim
N8LXR
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