Texas QSO Party
Call: NO5W
Operator(s): NO5W K5OT
Station: NO5W
Class: Multi-Op Mobile LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 2 0 0
40: 967 66 0
20: 562 3 0
15: 25 0 0
10:
6:
2:
UHF:
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Total: 1556 69 0 Mults = 120 Total Score = 619,220
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
K3/100, HI-Q 4/80, CQ/X 1.8.0.11, 2002 Pathfinder
The above score includes 42000 bonus points for activating 42 counties with
five or more QSOs and 500 bonus points for working N4CD in 5 different
counties.
About 8:30am on Thursday before the party I rolled out of the driveway in New
Orleans, reset the trip odometer, and headed for Georgetown, TX -- about a 9.5
hour drive -- to meet my TxQP accomplice Larry-K5OT.
About 7:30pm Monday after the party I rolled back into the driveway, checked
the trip odometer and it said 2213. Had it been that many miles -- they pass
fast when you're having fun! About 1140 (Saturday 675 and Sunday 465) of those
miles were in the TxQP and the rest were spent getting back and forth between
Georgetown and New Orleans.
Needless to say it has taken a few days for me to get motivated and inspired to
sit in front of the computer to write up some comments on our adventure.
Actually it was a pretty mundane adventure, which is the way you like these
things to go. Hardware worked well, the software exhibited nary a hiccup, and
the ops and driver stayed awake the whole time during their three hour shifts.
No back windows of the Pathfinder fell out and we didn't run out of gas,
although we came close to experiencing the latter.
First impressions of this TxQP were that participation was down somewhat with
some of the usual out of state characters missing including VE3s, that suthern
Pappa Novembuh gentleman from GA, the normal DX, and several others. In
addition on Sunday 20m decided to sleep in and did not provide it's usual
number of Qs leaving 40m to be the money band.
However, when we compare our score to 2014 there is an increase of about 32%.
So we must have improved in some areas one of which was SSB. One goal we set
before the party was to work more SSB and, although we were not able to get any
runs going on SSB, we did get some good mileage out of S&P including 20
additional mults, all of them with Texas fixed stations.
With 20m in the doldrums 40m picked up the slack and we had some good pileups
on 40m CW. On Saturday evening the pileups were going so well that K5OT made a
driver decision to forgo the final gas stop, about 75 miles from our hotel, and
press on, landing us only 5 miles from the hotel at the closing bell. By that
time the Pathfinder was breathing fumes but fortunately we were just west of
Houston with plenty of gas around and filled up with 18 gallons -- I thought
the tank only held about 17! Forgoing that gas stop helped us stay in the
pileups and the county lines kept coming just as each county pileup was ending.
That was a blast for the operator, absorbed in the pileups and unaware of the
need for fuel.
We had QSOs with 313 different stations so participation was actually pretty
good, with some new characters taking over for those missing. Thanks to
everyone who gave us a QSO but especially these stations who followed us around
and provided more than 50% of our QSOs: K5NA(41), N5RZ(39), NR5M(38), K5LH(37),
WA2VYA(37), NW0M(35), N6MU(30), W0GXQ(29), WA6KHK(29), WB5KSD(28), AE5GT(26),
K5RT(25), K3TW(25), WB5BKL(23), AC5K(21), KN4Y(21), N4CD(20), W5RTA(19),
KM4HI(19), NA4K(19), KE0G(19), K4XU(19), K8NYG(18), N4OX(18), N1LN(18),
KE5LQ(17), AD4RE(17), K8JQ(17), K5SBR(15), W5MF(15), WA8ZBT(14), W2MN(14),
NG7Z(14), W0UY(14), N5OE(14), W9JEF(14), WB0PYF(14).
Time to put away the mobile QSO party stuff for the year and get ready for SS,
CQWW, etc. Hope to work you in many of those.
73
Chuck-NO5W
Larry-K5OT
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