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Subject: [3830] FlQP NO5W M/SCW LP
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Reply-to: no5w.chuck@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:50:48 +0000
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                    Florida QSO Party

Call: NO5W
Operator(s): KN5O NO5W
Station: NO5W

Class: M/SCW LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
   40:    23     
   20:  2546     
   15:    64     
   10:     0     
--------------------
Total:  2633    0  CW Mults = 71  Ph Mults = 0  Total Score = 747,772

Club: LA Contest Club

Comments:

K3/100, HI-Q 4/80 antenna, 2002 Pathfinder (~156K), N3ZN Mini-mite, Dell D610,
CQ/X 1.8.0.8, Streets & Trips 2013

Arrived back in New Orleans about midnight Sunday road-weary but flying high
after having a total blast and setting a new personal best in the FQP. A big
storm passed through the city Monday morning taking out our power and internet
for about 15 hours so I'm running behind on posting this report. I'll hit the
highlights:

Eyeball QSOs -- they don't count in your score but definitely add to the
pleasure of the event.

Just after the closing bell on Saturday night we were replacing fumes with
actual gas at a service station in Ocala when up walks Wayne-N4FP. Wayne and I
work often in the Wednesday CWTs sponsored by CW Ops but had never met so it
was nice to meet him and his wife and to see his neat setup. Wayne sends with
the paddle with one hand and logs with the other which we found to be an
amazing trick since Ted and I are both primarily keyboard pushers with only an

occasional use of the paddle when absolutely necessary. We were looking for a
place to catch some much needed dinner and understood the place across the
street was open until midnight. So we invited our new friends to continue our
chat over dinner. Well it turned out that the place across the street was a
karioke bar and the singers were loud and awful. After the pure pleasure of the
CW pileup symphony we had been listening to mixed with massive portions of 
power line noise it was tough to endure the karaoke. Wayne lives close by so he
graciously declined our invitation and left the karaoke to Ted and myself. So
while the W4AN crew and the NX4N suburbanites were enjoying that BBQ down near
Tampa we were stuck in a karaoke bar in Ocala listening to some really awful
and loud singers -- at least the burgers were pretty good.

Just after the closing bell on Sunday we met Escambia Jay-N4OX at a truck stop
just across the line in Alabama to pick up about 10,000 feet of radial wire for
a friend back in Louisiana. It was good catching up a bit with Jay who I had not
seen since he treated my wife and me to dinner in Pensacola prior to the 2009
FQP. I think I still owe you Jay -- maybe next year:>)  

Heading back to Louisiana we usually stop in Spanish Fort for dinner. This year
we had a nice dinner with long time friend and Texan Alan-N5NA and his wife Kay
who had just finished their first FQP after I had raved about it for several
years. Sounds like they had fun, hope they will be back.      

Meeting the Schedule -- This year we went out on a limb and published an
estimated schedule of when we would cross each of the county lines. After
totally busting the published schedule in the 2014 Texas QSO Party it was good
to make all of our 39 counties and to do it very close to the published
schedule. As you can see below on Saturday we got behind about 20 minutes in
Wakulla and that schedule slippage carried through the rest of the day. Sunday
was a different story as we practically nailed the schedule. Here's the detais
along with info about who managed to get in the log first and the ten minute
hourly rates generated by the pileup as we crossed into each new county.

Saturday
                   Miles                        Initial
                   into        Arrival First    10-min  
County Line        Route   ETA   Time  in Log    Rate   
Bay-Calhoun         39     1617  1614   W8WVU     180
Calhoun-Gulf        69     1649  1644   W8WVU     186
Gulf-Franklin      111     1736  1735   K0HC      186
Franklin-Wakulla   161     1858  1831   N1LN      180
Wakulla-Jefferson  195     1934  1953   W8WVU      96
Jefferson-Taylor   202     1942  2001   W3TB      156
Taylor-Dixie       257     2035  2056   W8WVU     n/a
Dixie-Lafayette    259     2036  2058   K3TN      204
Lafayette-Dixie    260     2059  2122   K5KPE     n/a
Dixie-Taylor       261     2100  2123   HI3TT     n/a
Taylor-Dixie       263     2102  2125   DL5KUT    204
Dixie-Levy         292     2129  2152   N5AU      n/a
Levy-Gilchrist     293     2129  2153   W1TO      198
Gilchrist-Levy     294     2146  2217   IZ4IRO    204
Levy-Citrus        340     2247  2304   W8WVU     150
Citrus-Hernando    366     2315  2336   N9CK      228
Hernando-Pasco     394     2345  0009   W8PI      234
Pasco-Hernando     397     2359  0023   HB9FBP    n/a
Hernando-Sumter    404     0005  0030   K9NW      210
Sumter-Lake        425     0028  0055   W9RE      198
Lake-Sumter        432     0058  1118   VE5MX     n/a
Sumter-Marion      450     0113  0133   W8WVU     198
     
Sunday     
Marion-Alachua      20     1202  1207   W8WVU     186
Alachua-Putnam      33     1214  1220   W8WVU     192
Putnam-Alachua      34     1235  1236   W1END     138
Alachua-Bradford    54     1255  1257   W8WVU     222
Bradford-Clay       74     1315  1321   K5OT/2    216
Clay-Duval          81     1338  1338   W8WVU     204
Duval-Nassau        93     1351  1352   W8WVU     138
Nassau-Baker        95     1413  1413   K5YAA     198
Baker-Union        110     1431  1431   N5DO      216
Union-Columbia     138     1501  1503   W8WVU     192
Columbia-Suwannee  165     1524  1526   W8WVU     150
Hamilton-Suwannee  182     1549  1555   K5OT/2     90
Suwannee-Madison   201     1648  1649   K9NW      234
Madison-Jefferson  234     1715  1715   W8WVU     204
Leon-Gadsden       276     1750  1749   W8WVU     180
Gadsden-Liberty    304     1817  1825   K2DSW     222
Liberty-Calhoun    318     1843  1848   ND3R      204
Calhoun-Jackson    335     1903  1907   W1END     192
Jackson-Washington 359     1925  1934   W8WVU     216
Washington-Holmes  373     1949  1951   W8WVU     114
Holmes-Washington  380     1955  1957   K8MR      n/a
Washington-Holmes  386     2000  2001   N1CC      n/a
Holmes-Walton      395     2020  2008   AA3B      198
Okaloosa-SantaRosa 447     2103  2050   W7ZR      216
SantaRosa-Escambia 471     2124  2135   W8WVU     246

Making the Qs -- Of course eyeball QSOs and being on schedule do not directly
generate any score. For that you have to make some QSOs. You can see from our
band breakdown we were basically "Johnny One-Notes" being practically
glued to 20m. We tried 40m and 15m and even gave out a few CQs on 10m but with
limited success and the pileups we were experiencing on 20m kept calling us
back. Each county was begun on 20m and if the pileup and rate dropped
sufficiently we would try the other bands. 

Out of the 408 unique stations we worked, special thanks go to the following
who contributed more than half the QSOs. We hope you enjoyed the party as much
as we did.

NT2A(45), K9NW(43), K5YAA(42), W8WVU(39), K9CT(38), WA3HAE(37), NA8V(36),
K0HC(35), N9CK(35), VE3KZ(34), K3WW(34), N5DO(33), K5KPE(33), VA3DF(33),
K9CW(32), N5ZK(31), W8PI(31), K9PG(31), WI9WI(30), W9IU(30), NS9I(30),
K2DSW(29), WJ9B(28), ND3R(28), K8MR(27), HI3TT(26), N5XJ(25), N3DXX(25),
W8UE(24), K8GT(24), N2CQ(23), K0RC(23), K9UIY(22), K7SV(22), NW0M(22),  
KI0I(22), W7RN(22), W1TO(21), VE3KP(21), K1RO(21), K6LA(21), W3HDH(20),
N1CC(20), KS0MO(20), K5OT/2(19), VE9ML(19), K2XE(19), VA3ATT(19), N3EN(18)

Of the above frequent callers NT2A, and K9NW, were the kingpins of the pileups
working us in each of our counties followed closely by W8WVU, and K5YAA who
missed us in only one county. None of these stations were the loudess in the
pileup but their pitch and speed combined to make them easily detected in the
melee of the pile.

Low Lights -- For the most part Murphy stayed away although we did have a few
anxious moments at the start on Sunday when the mouse pad on the
long-in-the-tooth Dell D610 logging computer would not respond. Not that we use
the mouse much but it is useful for launching the logging program and failure to
do so would have been a serious show stopper. As a low light we should also
mention the power line noise in NAS along that short two mile stretch of
Highway 90 in the southern end of the county. It was some of the worst that I
have heard. We had to drive the stretch of highway a second time before we
found a logging road on the opposite side of the highway that made the noise 
tolerable but still very bad.

Many thanks to the FCG for sponsoring this premiere QSO party that seems to get
better with each year drawing us back. Take a look at the tight competition in
the M/S mobile CW category and you can see that FQP is one heck of a contest
and a great event to be a part of. 

Thanks also to Ted-KN5O for joining in to share the driving and operating with
enthusiasm and skill.

Hope to see everyone again in FQP 2016 and at Dayton in a few weeks.

73

Chuck-NO5W
Ted-KN5O


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