7th Call Area QSO Party
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOMixed LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 11
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 7
40: 48 12
20: 138 182
15: 11
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 204 198 0 Mults = 140 Total Score = 140,000
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
I used the N1MM+ multi QSO party program and worked 147 non-7QP Q's. As far as I
know, there is no magic button to score each QP, so the total is an estimate,
probably made slightly fewer 7QP Q's and may have missed a mult or two. It was
a little annoying, not knowing my 7QP only score as I operated. The 7QP QSO
point total turned out to approximate exactly 1000!
As expected 15M was nearly worthless with the best opening 1510-1530Z and very
much favoring southerly 7's. 20 opened well early and I was able to run
stations on SSB not long after S&P'ing 40 until worked out. I never got a
good run going on CW (almost no answers), and after the early SSB runs it was
quite a while into the late afternoon before I got a good SSB run going again.
The running fun was over by around 2340Z and signals from the Pacific NW and
northern Rockies were weak or gone starting around 2345Z before my local sunset
of 0010Z. Signals did rebound a bit later, but activity was quite sparse.
Chasing the mobiles on CW was pretty tedious with no assistance and most of
them jumping around to a new frequency quite often. N7WA/M for several Q's in a
row was either too close to or zero beat to loud fixed 7 area stations. I let
him know when we worked, but no QSY. For long stretches I could not find
mobiles WW7D, KS5A, N7WA, N7XU, and KM7R. A big part of the problem was
probably that they were weak or in the noise despite decent signals from fixed
stations. K7RE/M was worked a lot and was the loudest. Prop to ID is probably
the weakest of all states beyond the skip zone on average here. Everybody
weakened during the high sun mid day hours. I worked 16 less mults than in my
MS effort last year, so I would say the number of mobile counties active were
the same or better this year. It might have been more fun to go assisted
again.
The big positive this year was decent prop with very low noise on 40 and 80. 40
was almost free of any QRN! This was the least noisy 7QP I can ever remember by
far! By 0245Z 40 CW was loaded with 7's! There were good signals earlier, but
much less activity. Unfortunately, I was out of gas by 0320Z and quit with many
low band Q's left on the table.
Many thanks for all of the Q's and to the mobiles for putting in many miles on
lonely roads. I worked a few counties never worked before in 7QP. Helping the
XYL did cut into my time a bit. Between dinner prep and eating I was off 58
minutes in the 21Z hour which is a bad time to miss.
A mobile only window sure would help from the East Coast especially. I really
felt like 7 land was far away at times and was beaten out by EU stations to
mobiles a few times.
73, Jeff
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