North American QSO Party, CW
Call: KG5U
Operator(s): KG5U
Station: KG5U
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 7.5
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 52 23
40: 65 26
20: 147 45
15: 111 30
10: 9 6
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Total: 384 130 Total Score = 49,920
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: Austin Powers Enchiladas
Comments:
What fun that was!
I still have an antenna switching and beam T-ing problem. I had to
to break out my SixPak switchbox and manually change antennas. Need
to add a toggle switch to swap antennas/radios (R1-C3/R2-A3 >>
R1-A3/R2-C3 -- A3 is NW ant; C3 is rotatable, but generally NE ant).
I probably would have fried my filters if I hadn't been operating QRP
on some band changes when I didn't follow with the antenna. But,
it was interesting working at least three or four stations on 80m with
one of the beams. :-)
SO2R is getting smoother and more comfortable to use. The key seems
to be in my audio switching. TopTen DXD helped smooth that out a lot.
Once I get the antenna switching problem resolved, SO2R should be even
easier.
This time out, I actually had four QSO's that happened when I called
the S&P target only to have someone answer the CQ while I was getting
and sending the S&P's exchange. I managed to nail the CQ callers
without much delay before they drifted off.
Once, in a QSO with W9RE, the E on the keyboard would not work. I had
to hit multiple ESC's and retype call and exchnage. I'm sure Mike
knew he was dealing with an idiot when he called; I just confirmed it
for him.
10m activity was really light. 15m activity was lighter than I can
remember in a while. But, the 6's were really BIG around 2300z. K6LA
was literally pinning the meter then; others were very very strong--all
previously worked, though. Darn.
20m was, as usually the big QSO band. In the last couple of hours of
the contest, my CQ's on 80 actually resulted in more responses than on
40m. Gotta get that 40m element on the C3 before WW CW and SS CW.
Timewise, I took an extra 2 hours off to take care of some non-radio things.
At the time, I felt I needed to get that done. Now, as I write this
Sunday morning, I'm wondering why I couldn't have waited till now. Duh....
Otherwise, great fun!!
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