North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: K4HQK
Operator(s): K4HQK
Station: K4HQK
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Alexandria, VA
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 56 18
80: 119 33
40: 79 39
20: 69 26
15: 10 7
10: 4 1
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Total: 337 124 Total Score = 41,788
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
Here’s a summary of my single-operator S&P operation with one transmitter,
low-altitude dipoles, and a 20-10m vertical. With the object of collecting some
multipliers I began on 10m and worked four fellow PVRC members, but they were
all I heard on an otherwise dead band. I then moved to 15m but it wasn’t much
better. After scrounging 10 western QSOs I gave up and QSYed to a busy 20m.
But--20m was a propagation hodgepodge with annoying QSB and atmospheric noise. I
struggled to work 69 stations, 53 of which were out west. The other 16 were in
Florida, New England, Maryland, D.C., Louisiana, Quebec, Newfoundland, and
two—yep, two--ZFs in the Caymans.
At 1600 EST I checked 15m again but only heard one signal, a VA7. After working
him I switched to 40m--busy but noisy, including distant QRN. The band was not
at all “long” to the west during this late afternoon effort, as I had
expected. Almost all the stations I worked were in the eastern half of North
America, including Puerto Rico, plus a DX QSO in Spain.
I broke for dinner at 1800 EST. When I returned to the contest at 1900 I opened
on 80m. Activity was good and growing. I stayed with the band until 2100 after
working 119 stations in this two-hour period (60/hour), my best S&P rate of
the contest. QSOs were mostly confined to Maritime Canada, Ontario, Quebec and
the eastern half of the U.S. from Florida to Maine. The farthest-west states I
worked were Iowa and Arkansas.
At 2100 I felt I had accomplished all I could on 80m so I moved down to 160m for
what I thought would be a lame, token effort (antenna is one-half of the 80m
dipole). In fact I gathered up 56 QSOs by 2300, primarily eastern seaboard
stations from SC to ME plus six from Ontario. With that I pulled the plug and
hit the sack.
73,
John K4HQK
Alexandria, Virginia
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