North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: K8MR
Operator(s): K8MR
Station: K8MR
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 18 10
40: 66 22
20: 51 26
15: 9 6
10:
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Total: 144 64 Total Score = 9,216
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Team: MRRC/NCC Hawks
Comments:
I'm spending a few weeks in Montclair, NJ, helping take care of my new 12 week
old granddog. I brought radios and wires to play with while here, but I did not
plan to do this one QRP. I had got a support line up 50 feet in a tree in the
back yard, with a coax fed dipole, for the Thursday NS Ladder, which seemed to
work OK with the IC-746 at 100 watts. I then took the antenna down to keep
things clear for the men working on a new patio, but left the string in the
tree. When I went out to erect the antennas on Saturday afternoon after the
workmen left for the day, no sting in the tree, or on the ground. I guess they
though it was something of theirs that needed cleaned up.
I tried to shoot another line over the tree, but no luck. A couple of shots
with the EZ-Hang went over beautifully, but would not come down to the ground.
So I finally gave up and got out the KX3 and used its tune-anything tuner to
feed a 42 ft wire that I was able to get up in the same tree, with two radials
16 and 33 feet for a ground.
To keep things simple while also socializing with guests my daughter had over
for the afternoon, I just logged on paper and sent by hand. No dupe sheet. A
true old school contest.
Things seemed to work OK for QRP. There is a 300 ft ridge half a mile west of
here, so the west coast was challenging. OTOH F6HKA on 15 and 20, and LA3O on
20, were pretty loud. A good sign for whatever I might do this weekend in the
WAEDC.
As always, good to get on and make some QSOs, and in this case provide a
challenge in weak signal copying skills.
73,
Jim K8MR
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