North American QSO Party, SSB
Call: NK7U
Operator(s): NK7U, K7ZO, KL2A, N7WR
Station: NK7U
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 74 24
80: 421 54
40: 504 55
20: 692 56
15: 447 39
10: 1 1
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Total: 2139 229 Total Score = 489,831
Club:
Team:
Comments:
Congrats to the big M/2 Scores out there from K5TR, W5WMU, and what looks like
another win by the K9NS score. In these years where the low bands make the
difference this is a contest for the midwest and south to win. When both 10 and
15M come back -- look out, the northwest will be back challenging things again.
We got off to a giant start on 15M which was not expected listening to the
bands right before the start. We could hear all of two signals on the band
leading up to the start. Obviously it was open but no one was on. We had 119
15M QSO's in the first 30 minutes and a 184 first hour, just like K7RL had.
When the band closed we had a pretty good number of QSO's -- wish we had a few
more mults. 20M was "Mr Steady" for us with the first 6 hours averaging 107/hr.
Not a lot of out of the ordinary mults on -- HP was a good one. 40M was its
usual noisy zoo. If you were willing to hang in there an grind it out it did
produce -- though half the QSO's would require a repeat to get half the call.
At times it seemed like a bottomless pit and we did have a 135 hour which is
not bad. How did K7RL turn in a 200 hour? We went to 80M right at 0100 UTC when
20M died. It was a bit too early, but we really didn't have any choice. We
settled in at 3802 which we stayed on right to the end. It was nice to have the
KP4 and KP2 mults call in near the end. 160M for us was a major dissapointment
for us this year. No matter what we did we just couldn't get it going. We
probably had at most a half dozen QSO's east of the Mississippi River. Last
year we were 142 X 36 on 160M and being down a dozen mults really hurt our
score. This is where the midwest creams us with them being so close the
population and mult rich east coast.
We also agree with K7RL that around 3:30 UTC the bands seemed to "go soft" and
rates really started to slow. Or, it could be the single ops back east were
turning in for the night.
Overall our score is down about 6% from last year. Amazingly we had the exact
same number of QSO's -- our mults were down.
2006 2007
Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults
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160: 142 36 74 24 Just couldn't get it going
80: 433 59 421 54 Where were the mults
40: 414 56 504 55 A bright point
20: 634 59 692 56 About even -- a few more mults would be
nice
15: 516 43 447 39 Down
10: 0 0 1 1 Found a local to make a sked with us!
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Total: 2139 253 2139 229
See everyone in the next contest
Scott/K7ZO
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QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
D1-1800Z - - - 119/37 184/32 - 303/69 303/69
D1-1900Z - - - 86/7 69/4 - 155/11 458/80
D1-2000Z - - - 96/4 56/1 - 152/5 610/85
D1-2100Z - - - 112/1 88/1 - 200/2 810/87
D1-2200Z - - - 132/1 49/1 - 181/2 991/89
D1-2300Z - - 96/36 96/3 1/0 - 193/39 1184/128
D2-0000Z --+-- 3/2 115/12 50/2 --+-- --+-- 168/16 1352/144
D2-0100Z - 81/36 135/7 - - - 216/43 1568/187
D2-0200Z - 116/11 95/0 - - - 211/11 1779/198
D2-0300Z 23/12 88/2 42/0 - - - 153/14 1932/212
D2-0400Z 23/5 64/0 17/0 - - - 104/5 2036/217
D2-0500Z 28/7 69/3 4/0 1/1 - 1/1 103/12 2139/229
Total: 74/24 421/54 504/55 692/56 447/39 1/1
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