North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: KK7S
Operator(s): KK7S
Station: KK7S
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 13 4
80: 49 19
40: 156 47
20: 275 51
15: 17 9
10: 0 0
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Total: 510 130 Total Score = 68,340
Club:
Team:
Comments:
This was my first August NAQP. The Winter one seems to work a lot better up
here in the Pacific NW. 20m was open all day, and 40m was surprisingly good,
but I never heard a peep on 10m. 15m started weak and I expected it to open up
later, but it died early and never came back. 160m had some really nice
openings with very strong a clear signals from CA and the southwest, but it
seemed like most folks weren't giving it a try. 80m was okay -- noisy but with
good activity, albeit fairly local.
This was my first real attempt at SO2R using a K3 as my main rig and a Jupiter
as my second. My antennas are VERY close together, and even good filtering
can't eliminate the interference, but as long as I run on higher bands and S&P
on lower bands, it works fine. The thing everyone says about SO2R -- that it
will lower your scores at first -- seems to be true for me. I got a little
distracted by both radios and it wasn't until the end of the contest that I was
getting a good rhythm down.
I set what I thought were conservative goals, 580+ QSOs and 80K+ score, but
fell quite short on both. I had lots of fun and learned a lot about SO2R, so
I'll count it as a success. See you in the next one.
-Chadd, KK7S
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