North America QSO Party - SSB
Call: KH6ND
Operator(s): KH6ND, K9QQ
Station: KH7R
Class: M/2
QTH: HI
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 2 1
80: 21 10
40: 262 50
20: 415 61
15: 850 66
10: 1001 66
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Total: 2551 254 = 647,954
UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total
18Z 0 0 0 0 164 245 409 409
19Z 0 0 0 0 113 175 288 697
20Z 0 0 0 0 103 184 287 984
21Z 0 0 0 0 22 90 112 1096 - Gee, tnx Mr. Flare
22Z 0 0 0 0 85 171 256 1352
23Z 0 0 0 0 131 105 236 1588
00Z 0 0 0 72 118 3 193 1781
01Z 0 0 0 85 76 28 189 1970
02Z 0 0 9 138 38 0 185 2155
03Z 0 0 111 120 0 0 231 2386
04Z 0 13 81 0 0 0 94 2480
05Z 2 8 61 0 0 0 71 2551
tot 2 21 262 415 850 1001 ---- 2551
Comments - K9QQ: Sincere thanks to KH6ND for agreeing to team up,
configure the station, and take a run at the record. Was over 200 Qs
behind Mike on 15 when the flare hit and the band disappeared--thought
we were hosed for sure. It came back strong though. Everyone CQed
in my face for the first 15 minutes or so on 40. Was suprised to find a
quiet freq after that though and the rate picked up for the last couple
hours. Only frustration was lack of W1 mults. Only remember working
MA; not sure if it was a strategic error or lack of activity.
Appreciate all the guys that checked in and tried to move to 80 and 160
to work us, but it just wasn't happenin. Congrats to my fellow SMCers at
K9NS for their superb score.
Comments - KH6ND: The plan was to
1) make 2500 Q's, and
2) hope for decent low band conditions to fill out the mult total.
Well... we got the first half of the plan right, anyway. When the
bottom dropped out of 20m at 4z and I was forced to move to 80, well...
the hundreds of futile calls made to S8-9 stations CQing away on 80 with
few takers has given me a new appreciation for the expression "CQing in
my face". 80 and 160 were brutal. The last hour had me removing bandpass
filters, swapping radios, and changing jumpers, all to no avail. We just
were not being heard. Wish we had more than 1 hour of darkness to work
with here. Since this is the first NAQP multi from HI that we are aware
of, we can't be too unhappy with the final result. My team-mate, Brian,
K9QQ, did a great job. Thanks for the fun, (and the frustration :-) And
thanks to Ken, KH7R, for letting us run this one.
See you on 160 with more than 100 watts this weekend.
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