West Virginia QSO Party
Call: AA8IA
Operator(s): AA8IA
Station: AA8IA
Class: Single OpMixed LP
QTH: Ohio-EN90QL
Operating Time (hrs): 1:52
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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80:
40: 6 11
20: 3 3
15:
10:
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Total: 9 14 0 Mults = 13 Total Score = 1,055
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Score includes 300 points for working W8WVA three times. I only worked W8OP/m
twice, and even worse was the fact that I only worked K8RYU/m once.
The June VHF QSO Party and CQ WPX CW required so much sitting time for me that
I'm still trying to get my sciatica under control. I just couldn't sit for
hours searching out the random WV station or wait for mobiles to switch
counties. I knew better and didn't even try.
As you can guess from the 80m total, I must not have been operating in the
evening. My heart wasn't in it by that point. My 80m doublet was hearing
less than my 40m wire on 80m. I was having trouble tuning every band on the
80m wire. I lowered the mast and looked over things briefly, and I didn't see
any broken wires. But somehow I had to have lost a connection / broken a leg of
the wire. So 80m wouldn't have been possible anyway.
This is only my second time working this QSO Party, and it was nice to see /
hear a lot of fixed stations on. My score doesn't reflect contact with a lot
of fixed stations, but I'm quite sure many more counties were covered than I
had heard.
W8OP and K8RYU sounded great on 40m when I worked them. I was really surprised
that I was able to hear so many WV stations on 20m in early-mid afternoon.
The operating time is misleading. Like some others, I did tune around
periodically on the bands looking for stations.
Thanks to all of the WV ops and the mobile ops for putting on a nice QP.
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