Florida QSO Party
Call: N1CC
Operator(s): N1CC
Station: N1CC
Class: SOAB(A)Mixed LP
QTH: Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 37 13
20: 128 251
15: 15 6
10: 0 0
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Total: 180 270 CW Mults = 60 Ph Mults = 52 Total Score = 71,560
Club: North Texas Contest Club
Comments:
Elecraft K3 @ 100W, F-112 C3 @64', EW 80/40 Fan Dipole @50'. WriteLog V12.13B.
Manually rescored the Cabrillo file, as once again, WriteLog not current in the
point calculation. Used RBN, PacketCluster, VOACAP for assistance. No self
spotting: N1CC was spotted six times while running by KM4SII, W4EE (2X),
WB2BTJ, KC3D, and VE9AA, none of whom are members of any clubs I belong to, are
not local, and although they may know of me they are not close associates. So
all spotting was volunteered by the spotter without my knowledge.
This was an extremely complex weekend. Normally, if there has been a disaster
requiring Ham Radio support I willingly take part in that. However, I am
currently not able to walk without a walker while a back problem is being
treated and I would not be of value at a disaster site. That being said, some
of my Ham Radio friends have been impacted by the 3 tornadoes on Saturday, all
are reporting they are OK but don't have power, and from the looks of the high
tension power network - ALL Power Towers are pretty mangled along a 62 mile
route, they won't have power for days to weeks.
On Saturday I had a late start because at first the Storm Centers were over my
location with heavy lighting and winds, then my operation began and suffered
from severe noise on all bands, and made 40M virtually a wasteland on Saturday.
The noise hung around Sunday morning with localized severe weather at my
station until 2-hours after the start of the FLQP.
Nonetheless, this was a unusually good year for the contest - even with time
available reductions, and only had a shortfall in CW stations to contact.
Comparing he number of contacts made, 450 this year to last years 437 contacts
and last years 113 county-multipliers to this years 112, there wasn't much
difference. Overall score reduction to 71,560 from 151,194 is fully due to the
lower number of CW contacts.
I have made a "combined" 67-county sweep in 2014, 15, and 16 with
only one 67 county sweep on cw in 2014. I did make a combined sweep again this
year. That's a fun statistic.
All band contacts were UP for total contacts, with only the 20M CW being a
lower number. This was a hard-work contest, and a lot of fun. Much thanks to
KN4Y for LIB as the last county at 1918Z on Sunday and for all of the fine
mobile work by K4FCG, KN4Y, K4OJ, K9DY, NO5W, W4AN, AD4ES, and K8MR - and
others I don't recall at the time of writing this summary.
Twenty-five folks outside of FL called me when I was calling "CQ Florida
Only" and 18 of these were Extra Class - a failure of Elmer's to teach
them the use of the English Language to not call during directed CQ calls. 18
other FL stations tried to dupe me - not a bad percentage. I did
"Run" over 80% of the time, popping in and out to work "New
Ones" and right back into the run, only 1 rig in use and managing to hold
my run frequency in a gentleman manner.
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