North American QSO Party, SSB
Call: AA4LR
Operator(s): AA4LR
Station: AA4LR
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 8.0
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 9 4
80: 70 25
40: 196 39
20: 76 32
15: 14 5
10: 0 0
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Total: 365 105 Total Score = 38,325
Club: South East Contest Club
Team: SECC #1
Comments:
Equipment:
K2/100 with KAT100 running 100 watts
TS-430s with AT-250 running 100 watts
K1KP-style voice keyer (1 message)
Antennas:
A3S @ 15m (15m, 20m)
1/4 wave sloper @ 12m (40m)
Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m)
125 foot doublet @ 10m (40m,80m, 160m)
R7000 (15-40m)
Comments:
Conditions were really off. 10m was non-existant. I tuned through the band
multiple times, even called some CQs in the first hour -- absolutely nothing.
15m was about as poor as 10m usually is. You'd think this would just slide
everything down one band. However, on the bottom end, the bands were terribly
noisy. 40m was the money band, which is really tough on a phone contest --
however, SWBC signals were pretty weak, probably due to poor propagation.
Off-time was a little odd. I worked the first four hours solid, then took a
three hour break. I also took a half hour at 0330z to pick up my kids from
Karate, and missed the last 20 minutes or so. All told, I got eight hours in.
My voice was a little off, too. Thursday I came down with a sore throat that was
so bad I stayed home from work on Friday. I was better Saturday, but by 0230z, I
was losing my voice.
Rates in the first four hours were pretty mediocre. 15m produced little. 20m
never had the good runs we usually get here in GA. 20m went long, but 40m was
not productive when I left the air at 2200z. Back at 0100z, 40m was really hot
for the first 30 minutes, then slowed way down. 80m was never really productive,
either. It was really difficult after 0200z. Signals were weak, noise levels
high.
At around 0218z, heard a OTH woodpecker signal centered on 7175 kHz. It took up
about 50 kHz of bandwidth with S8-9 signals. That was certainly unwelcome.
Managed to make a few contacts on 160m with the TS-430S and the doublet. I had
tried to get the shunt feed working with a matching network for 160m, but that
needs some work.
Technically, I was SO2R, but I never made a single SO2R-style contact. It's hard
to get much benefit when only one band is really open at a time.
Worked W4AN (@ NQ4I) M/2 on four bands. Never heard them on 40m at all.
Good practice this time. I'm totally floored my CW score this summer is higher
than my Phone score.
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