North Carolina QSO Party
Call: NC4KW
Operator(s): N1YXU, N1LN
Station: N1LN
Class: Club Mixed LP
QTH: ORA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 88 71
40: 107 76
20: 49 213
15: 2 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 246 360 Mults = 108 Total Score = 157,672
Club: North Carolina Kilo Watts
Comments:
I would like to start out by thanking the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club for
sponsoring, organizing and managing another successful North Carolina QSO
party. I would also like to thank the Mobile Ops for spending their day
driving all around the state and activating many of the counties.
Once again this year we entered in the Club Station category, with a few goals.
Specifically, to have fun, increase our score from last year and, if
possible to defend our first place position for the third year in a row. We
are happy to report that we have accomplished 2 of those 3 goals. The third
goal of defending our first place Club position will need to wait for a few
weeks before that will be determined. To help with goal 3 we had a target to
increase our average hourly Q rate from 60 to 70, however again this year, we
averaged almost exactly 60 Qs/hr. Actually our overall Q count was down by 12
with the biggest impact from 80 meters where we were down by 83 Qs.
Fortunately we more than made up for that by increasing our multiplier total by
8.
Our plan was for Laurie (N1YXU) to focus on SSB and Bruce (N1LN) to focus on
CW. We would change operators every hour for the first 6 hours and then every
half hour for the final 4. That worked quite well. The band moves from 20 to
40 and then from 40 to 80 occurred earlier than we desired because the bands
quickly went long. One example of this is when Laurie was having trouble
working what she thought was a WA5. She switched from the WNW yagi to the NW
yagi and Jose (EA5DFV) jumped up to S9 +20db. The next half hour was spent
running Europe. She put 36 Qs from 13 different countries in the log. It is
great to have that level of European participation, but too bad the current
rules don't allow for more than one DX mult credit.
With only 2 hours left in the contest we noticed that our own county was not in
the log. Thanks to W4HSA/M for solving that problem for us. From the BONUS
point perspective we never heard W4NC but we did work W4WS. We also put
Cherokee County in the log as mult #105 thanks to N5RM/M. At 03:00 UTC the
band went quite. The K3s were shut down...... time to relax.
Hour 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Cumm
D1-1700Z - 2/2 80/24 - - 82/26 82/26
D1-1800Z - - 62/3 - - 62/3 144/29
D1-1900Z - 34/14 46/8 1/0 - 81/22 225/51
D1-2000Z - 25/11 39/2 1/0 - 65/12 290/64
D1-2100Z - 74/9 17/0 - - 91/9 381/73
D1-2200Z 2/0 33/5 18/1 - - 53/6 434/79
D1-2300Z 58/11 1/1 - - - 59/12 493/91
D2-0000Z 47/5 3/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 50/8 543/99
D2-0100Z 25/4 - - - - 25/4 568/103
D2-0200Z 27/5 11/0 - - - 38/5 606/108
Total: 159/25 183/45 262/37 2/0 0/0
73,
NC4KW
North Carolina Kilo Watts
(Laurie, N1YXU and Bruce, N1LN)
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