North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: NO3M
Operator(s): NO3M
Station: NO3M
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: PA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 180 41
80: 238 47
40: 270 53
20: 232 46
15: 123 35
10: 91 21
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Total: 1134 243 Total Score = 275,562
Club:
Team: PVRC/Thursday Night Gang
Comments:
Personal best in NAQP; first time over 1K QSOs. I decided to add a new 10M
EDZ-Lazy-H NE/SW, but it ended up not getting used much over the E/W
EDZ-Lazy-H.
Finished mitigating a top-hat wire situation on the 160M vertical with 10
minutes to the start. One by one, the top loading wires (4) are electrically
disconnecting from the top of the vertical (wire pigtails) from the constant
wind movement; there's only one left connected. Each time one comes free, the
loading coil tap at the base needs adjusted and the wire/guy rope twisted
several times to make the pigtail stick up and away from the vertical
(otherwise it's intermittent). At that point, the wire then just serves as
nothing more than part of the guying, the wire is still tied to the vertical by
a very short rope at the top. Eventually it will have to come down, but
lowering and raising a "wet-noodle", 90ft aluminum tubing vertical is something
I don't look forward to (time to start thinking about that base-insulated
tower....)
Lowbands dead quiet here, signals just "popped"; should have put a little more
time in down there.
TU Qs - 73 -Eric NO3M
K3s + wire arrays (10-80M), top-loaded (sort-of) vertical (160M)
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