North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: KI5XP
Operator(s): KI5XP
Station: W5WMU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Lafayette, La
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 164 49
40: 251 49
20: 293 56
15: 92 32
10: 1 1
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Total: 801 187 Total Score = 149,787
Club: Cajun Contest Club
Team: SWACC
Comments:
The morning started off as usual before a contest, a phone call from Fred WW4LL,
who'd managed to mess something up again, and I had to bail him out, again. :)
Just kiddin' Fred, anytime buddy!
I never planned on having great conditions. Although 10m would bring new mults,
I didnt plan on working much there. I figured a start 15 and 20 would do the
trick, and that I'd try to play 15 completely out. I think I stuck around just
long enough. I played 15 until the mults dried up, and at that point figured it
was time to move to 20/40. When I got to 40, it was chock-a-block, everyone had
already moved. I got worried that I was late!
This contest, with the mults per band, is so fun to change bands in! When I got
to 40, its like a kid in a candy shop. Knocking them down one after another,
yellow everywhere! To me, the real excitement comes when that callsign comes
across yellow. As I scrolled up 40 meters it seemed all of them were yellow,
total bliss!
Speaking of yellow, one callsign stands out. K1DAN, man, he'd always appeared
at the right time with that yellow callsign! I'd get into a rythmn working some
on a run and up pop's good ole' Dan, with his yellow callsign! Just caught me
each time.
I didnt see as much DX as the rest of you guys have reported. I got really
nervous reading Bill's comments about 7.040, I never ONCE thought about going
down there, and no telling how much I missed.
Like George mentioned, I only worked a few guys off frequency, and I'd send them
a note in my qrz to check their afc. However, I did pull a good way off
frequency move myself. When I switched the left radio to 40 from 15, Pat
usually works CW about .12 off. Well, after calling a few stations and not
having anyone answer (except for 1 or 2 of you guys, sorry about that!), I
realized I was still .13 off, and hit the RIT clear immediately. Amazing how
much easier it is to work someone on frequency.
Next bonehead move was the IPO. I worked the first two hours of 15m time with
the IPO turned on, which for you non yaesu guys, that means that the preamp was
OFF. Nice move knucklhead. So if I asked for repeats on 15m, it wasnt you, it
was me, not paying attention. I didnt notice until about 2 hours in when I
switched to 10m and didnt hear anything..nothing, not even our electric fence
next door. Looked up, IPO. Nice. I managed another 2 hours out of 15 after
that!
I took an hour off in the middle and began to worry that I'd made the wrong
move. During that time, I read Ty's Feb05 comments that he worked 10 hours
straight, boy, at about 8 minutes into the break, I almost went back. Im glad I
didnt though. 80 was tough later on around 10:00. But I swear, at 10:15, it
just took off. I actually maintained a run on 80m, I dont think thats happened
before. You guys just kept coming and coming, and that makes it really fun!
I dont know how many of you guys counted me for La. but I can tell you, without
Don, it was HARD working my own state. Thanks to N5MEG who showed up (with a
big long RYRYRY!) and let me move him to all bands (lone 10M qso). I ran into
Don late on 40 and I think he asked to move, I was cq'in on 80 at the time in a
run but never got him there.
Thanks to all for the contacts and as usual, thanks to Pat W5WMU for the camp.
73
Charlie
KI5XP
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