Wow, wow, wow. Last minute decision to set up and win it all!
Hope all is well outside of contesting for ya, Bob.
Dave in sunny Qatar
> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:56:28 -0800
> From: webform@b41h.net
> Subject: [3830] NAQP SSB NX5M M/2 LP
> To: 3830@contesting.com, nx5m@txcyber.com
> Message-ID: <201001170656.o0H6uSYI022944@b41h.net>
>
> North American QSO Party, SSB - January
>
> Call: NX5M
> Operator(s): NX5M, N5XJ, KU5B
> Station: NX5M
>
> Class: M/2 LP
> QTH: TEXAS
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
>
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Mults
> -------------------
> 160: 287 52
> 80: 625 57
> 40: 795 64
> 20: 892 60
> 15: 186 40
> 10: 0 0
> -------------------
> Total: 2785 273 Total Score = 760,305
>
> Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
>
> Team:
>
> Comments:
>
> We had talked about not doing this one but decided Saturday
> morning to go ahead
> and do it. KU5B gave N5XJ a call to see if he was going to
> come up.....when he
> said "yes" that is when we decided to go ahead and go for it.
> So 2 hours before
> the contest it was a mad scramble to get set up. Luckily
> everything that was
> supposed to be plug and play actually played. One exception
> was found with
> less than an hour remaining......the east 80m beverage
> control wire was not
> even connected. I guess I simply missed it when I moved the
> controller to a
> different operating position but that did not seem to make
> much of a difference
> anyway.
> Only connected one 10m antenna which never was used except to
> try to keep a
> last minute sked. Seems our sked contact quit before we got
> there at 0559z so
> we did not even get our own state mult on that band.
> I really cracked myself up at one point. Think I was
> operating on 80 when a
> station gave me the name.......I thought he said "Humper". I
> really thought
> that was going to be a classic until he spelled it out to me (Hunter).
> 20m shut down rather quickly and seemed to be pretty noisy
> for us. 40m seemed
> to go long early. 80m and 160m really sounded good for the
> most part. A
> little tweaking on the 80 and 160 receive antennas made it
> even better.
> This was our best score ever. We had a good time. For me
> personally, it was a
> welcome break from all the issues I have been dealing with
> for the last couple
> of months. The fact that we had a lot of rain had a lot to
> do with our
> decision to go ahead and operate this one. Rain basically
> washed out plan for
> what I really needed to be doing on this day but allowed us
> to play radio for a
> few hours.
> As always, thanks for the q's and the moves.
>
>
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>
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