New York QSO Party
Call: N2CU
Operator(s): N2CU
Station: N2CU
Class: MobileCW LP
QTH: 20 counties
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 76
40: 268
20: 254
15: 47
10:
6:
2:
222:
432:
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Total: 645 0 0 Mults = 75 Total Score = 96,750
Club: Western NY DX Association
Comments:
I had planned to do a solo operation (no driver) but late in the week I found
out that my good friend and master county hunter Paul, WB2ABD was not set up
for doing a mobile effort of his own. He volunteered to be the driver and I
could operate SO CW only. Better yet, we used his scooter with a roof-mounted
screwdriver.
We activated 20 counties, which was well beyond what I planned alone. CHA, CAT,
ERI, WYO, ALL, LIV, STE, CHE, SCU, TIO, TOM, COR, ONO, CAY, SEN, ONT, MON, GEN,
ORL and NIA were all quite well represented by us. Well, we did make a wrong
turn in TIO and only operated there for 9 minutes. Congrats to the lucky few
who got us there! Late in the contest (1/2 hour left) I was asked to go to WYO
county when I was in GEN. Although they are neighboring counties I was at the
northern border of GEN and never would have made WYO in time. Sorry if you
missed the county sweep because of that Keith but we did activate WYO earlier
in the day.
Conditions the first several hours were crappy but in the late afternoon they
seemed to get better. 40m was especially noisy through most of the contest. We
did have rain and high winds the whole time.
I was quite satisfied with the hourly rate:
1400 - 50
1500 - 40
1600 - 38
1700 - 53
1800 - 41
1900 - 53
2000 - 69
2100 - 65
2200 - 47
2300 - 62
0000 - 62
0100 - 65
Average rate: 53.75
One county in particular was a hoot. When I entered Cortland I had a massive
pileup. I apologize for being a lid handling the pileup, but realized too late
I had the noise blanker and noise reduction on and it was causing some
distortion on receive. However, I eventually worked every station that needed
it.
Many thanks to constant companions NT2A (24), LY5A (21), K1ZZI (18), N4PN and
N6MA (15), W4UCZ (13), WA3HAE, WA6KHK, K5KDG and W3DYA (12), N4VV and W5WJN
(11), HA8IB (10) and many others with multiple QSOs. Special thanks to LY5A who
worked us in all but the last four counties. I guess he has to go to bed
sometime!
Rig: Elecraft K3/100
Ant: Roof mounted Little Tarheel screwdriver.
Driver: WB2ABD
73,
Tom N2CU <><
K3 #3582
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