North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: NO5W
Operator(s): NO5W
Station: W5GAD
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 107
40: 201
20: 250
15: 5
10: 1
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Total: 564 115 Total Score = 64,860
Club: Deep Dixie Contest Club
Team: Deep Dixie CC Team Magnolia
Comments:
FLEX 3000, K3/100, inverted vee @ 80ft, 3el steppir, N1MM+
This turned out better than it started. It was raining hard when I got to the
club house so I decided to leave the K3 in the car and use the club's Flex 3000.
That went along fine for a while until about 200 Qs when the Flex got into a
state where it was taking almost 5 seconds for the receiver to recover after a
transmission. Many times the responding station had already completed the
exchange before I was able to hear and of course this led to a lot of requests
for repeats.
Fortunately after about 15 minutes of this the rain had stopped and I decided to
change out the radio with the K3. That went well on 20m but when I switched to
40m I lost the CAT interface and had to manually keep N1MM+ up to date with the
frequency. For the most part that was no problem except when I got requests to
QSY to another band. Hope I managed to keep things straight.
It was a fun NAQP but the band conditions seemed very poor with a lot of noise.
20m was still the money band but it seemed to close down early. Not much heard
on 15 or 10. 40m turned out to be good and 80 had some good rates even though
most signals were just above the noise.
Thanks for the Qs. Great to get in the fray with all the excellent CW ops that
come out to play in the NAQP.
73/Chuck/NO5W
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