Texas QSO Party
Call: N5NA
Operator(s): N5NA
Station: N5NA
Class: SO CW Mobile LP
QTH: WTX
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 13
40: 852
20: 649
15: 351
10:
6:
2:
UHF:
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Total: 1865 0 0 Mults = 131 Total Score = 769,945
Club: Midland ARC
Comments:
The above score includes 36000 bonus points for activating 36 counties plus 1000
bonus points for working W3DYA/m and WC5D/m in 5 different counties.
Other mobile ops always seem to have a humorous story or two but everything was
clicking with the equipment and route, other than a few missed turns. The most
excitement was spending too much time stopped in Glasscock and Coke on Sunday
morning. I hate to leave a county with lots of stations calling. But my
schedule was tight and the extra time stopped put us late arriving in my last
county, Nolan. To top it off we missed a turn in Eastland so we just headed
straight north to hit I20 and hopefully make up some time on the interstate.
My wife put the pedal to the metal once we got on the interstate. I was
watching the time to next county display in CQ/X and was estimating we'd make
it with 5 or 6 minutes to spare. Finally got to Nolan with about 7 minutes to
spare with the first QSO in the log at 19:53:46. Whew! Didn't want to be the
guy that kept the TQP from activating all 254 counties! Managed to get 21
Nolan county QSO's in the log.
As others have noted, 15m was hot. In some counties I was only on 15m and 40m,
skipping 20m. I like to try to get on 40m from each county so the close in
stations have an opportunity to work some of the WTX counties. Plus I usually
pick up a some county multipliers.
The initial ten minute hourly rate in the following counties was: Kent(210),
Sterling(204), Gaines(186), Glasscock(186), Ector(186), Concho(180),
Lubbock(180), Coke(180), Tom Green(180), Taylor(174), Scurry(168), King(168),
Cochran(162), Callahan(162), Runnels(156), Brown(150).
Thanks to the following stations for contributing more than half the QSOs:
N6MU(38), VE3KZ(37), N4CD(33), K5LH(32), NR5M(28), DK2OY(28), AE5GT(28),
OM2VL(27), K5OT(27), WA6KHK(24), K4AMC(23), N8II(23), KI0I(23), N4PN(22),
N4JF(21), AD1C(19), KQ3F(19), ND3R(19), WB5KSD(19), W5CW(19), KC3X(18),
DL5ME(17), VE7CV(17), DL6KVA(17), W5LXS(17), DL8MLD(17), WB5BKL(17), N1LN(16),
W0GXQ(16), SM6VR(16), VE3OM(15), K4BAI(15), W4UT(15), N9AUG(14), OK2EC(14),
K1TN(14), WB0PYF(14), N4UF(14), N3RJ(13), SP5SA(13), W1DWA(13), K5IID(13),
W4RKV(12), N3RM(12), WD5IYT(12), K8JQ(12), N5OE(12), KN5L(12), K3TW(12),
K5XR(11), N4VA(11).
Equipment: Elecraft K3, Scorpion SA-680 antenna, Dell Latitude D630 running
CQ/X, 2000 Silverado C2500 antenna support.
Thanks to everyone for all the QSO's! A special thanks to my wife, K5AKS, for
driving me all over WTX on our 29th anniversary!
73, Alan N5NA
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