Minnesota QSO Party - 2022
Call: AE0EE
Operator(s): AE0EE
Station: AE0EE
Class: Single OpMixed LP
QTH: MN
Operating Time (hrs): 9.5
Summary:
Band CW-RTTY Qs Ph Qs
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160: 1 1
80: 70 36
40: 82 94
20: 79 10
15: 29 7
10: 1 0
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Total: 262 148 Mults = 100 Total Score = 82,000
Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
Comments:
100 W, dipoles up 5-7 m. No memory/function/voice-keyer keying.
The night before the contest, there were a few wrinkles. I went to put the
feedline on my 80/160 m antenna in the cold and dark, and in doing so the
connector fell off. Fortunately I had decided to bring the tool kit, so I was
able to repair it at the expense of not getting to bed as early as I had hoped.
With that hurdle aside, I was ready for the contest.
Conditions seemed okay, though 20 m wasn't open to Europe in the morning like I
generally remember. Rates were good at the beginning of the contest, but by
mid/late morning, they really slowed down as I couldn't get much traction on 20
or 15 meters. I picked up a bunch of contacts on SSB on 40 m, but was never
able to establish a run frequency on 20 m SSB---too crowded.
I was a bit disappointed in the results on 160 m and 10 m. For 10 m, I could
hear a bunch of FT8, but despite calling CQ for quite a while on a few
occasions, I only worked one other station just down the road. On 160 m, I
found very few folks went to poke around, as I spent quite a while calling CQ
there in the last half hour, but with only one contact each mode to show for it.
It was exciting that from about 3 PM onward, I could tell I would beat my
personal best MNQP, which was also the Le Sueur County record from last year.
Indeed, I got the 73,000 points needed to break it well before the end, but it
would appear KB0EO has broken the record by a very substantial margin.
Thanks for the contacts!
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