North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Lone Pine CA
Operating Time (hrs): 7+10
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 128 43
40: 142 48
20: 35 21
15: 63 29
10: 85 23
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Total: 453 164 Total Score = 74,292
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Team: SCCC #5
Comments:
IC-781 Cushcraft AV-5 CT-DOS 10.04 (SO1R)
This was an impromptu operation. I knew that I couldn't operate in the
afternoon as we were attending a memorial service for two local ladies
who were killed in a tragic accident. I had no operative antennas one
hour before the start of the contest as I had been debating whether to
operate or not. But I had committed to a SCCC Team and thought I should
pull my share. I found my old AV-5 lying in the sage brush and erected
it on a pipe. Fortunately it only needed some tweaking on 80 meters.
I then found out that my CT Version 9 wouldn't cover the NAQP and I had
to go back in the house and download version 10 and then transfer it on
a floppy to my trusty NEC laptop 486-50 out in the shack. I got everything
going and corrected the time from WWV at minute 58. After an hour of
operation I found that all the QSO's were logged on 20 meters even though I
was on 10 meters. I had forgotten to run COMTSR before booting CT-DOS.
So I went back and manually moved all those QSO's to 10 meters. After a
couple hours, I QRTed for a little over three hours and missed the
20 meter operating time.
Ten meters was very good at the start. When I QSYed to 15 meters, the
conditions were very spotty, not as good as 10m was. When I got back on
the air, activity on 20 meters had definitely subsided in favor of the low
bands and I spent the last four hours on 80 and 40. Forty meters was
squeezed between 7.000 and 7.035 because of some unfamiliar type of signals
above 35. I was very surprised at how well the 5 band vertical worked as an
impromptu antenna. Probably good ears on the other end.
As always, contests are fun despite some challenges. VP9/W6PH for the
ARRL's.
73, Kurt, W6PH
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