GEORGIA QSO PARTY
Call used: W4AQL (Georgia Tech Amateur Radio Club) Location: FULT
Category: Multi-Multi Unlimited Mode: MIXED Power: 1500
Callsign of Operator: W4AQL
If multi-operator, show calls of all operators and loggers:
KU4WJ (PH+CW), WJ2RM (PH), KE4QLI (PH)
Exchanged Information: W4AQL RST FULT
Hours of Operation: 20:00
band CW QSOs CW pts Ph QSOs Ph pts
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80 17 34 17 17
40 14 28 18 18
20 119 238 870 870
15 18 36 60 60
10 0 0 0 0
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TOTAL 168 336 965 965
( 1301 ) QSO points X ( 101 ) Multipliers = 131,401 points
Club or Team Name: Georgia Tech ARC
Comments:
Well, being a student at what is, IMHO, the premier institute of higher
learning in Georgia, if not the United States <g>, I figured we should be in
our state's QSO Party. The most experience any of us had with contests was
some light CW and a well-led multi-op Phone Sweepstakes from 1998 when we
didn't do that poorly in the phone competition. Well, we jumped into the
contest with both feet and really had a great run with it. We were able,
actually, to work all but 3 of the multiplier sections on Phone and I
believe we had over 40 multipliers on CW so that was a definite help. We
worked quite a few DX stations from Fulton County, and a few others in the
surrounding counties, but not many from the more "exotic" ones the rovers
were plowing through. The 3 ops tag-teamed on Phone and KU4WJ blasted away
working Q's and Mult's on CW. Looking at the results now, I can't believe
how insane our effort was - we went in hoping to break 20k, maybe 30,000
total. I guess that's the benefit of youth - there is still a lot of room
for error.
I heard K4AAA blasting away on 20M for a little while when our mouths
couldn't form CQ GA QSO Party any more (lesson learned - you need a voice
keyer for anything more than a few hours). A big thank-you to K4BAI et al.
for their efforts in getting the GA QSO Party together and I hope it is as
successful in the future!
73's
tim - KE4QLI
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Tim Cailloux tim@cailloux.com
KE4QLI President, Georgia Tech ARC - W4AQL
(404) 875-0778 (h)
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