Florida QSO Party
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOABSSB HP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 28
20: 159
15:
10:
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Total: 0 187 CW Mults = 0 Ph Mults = 44 Total Score = 16,456
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
At this point near the bottom of the cycle, it's impossible to be
competitive in the FQP from this area because of skipping over FL on
20 M. By 21Z Saturday 20 was virtually dead to FL. Sunday, 20 didn't
really open until about 1430Z and then northern FL was skipping over
my QTH near DC all day. The closest I could work was BRE/CIT/PIN and
briefly into ESC/ALC. My main focus was the NeQP; with a full blown
effort maybe 50-70 more phone QSO's would have been possible. 40 meter
phone was a very lonely place Saturday night at the same time the CW
end was loaded with strong mobile signals, so I started a check log
on CW and ended up making 100 Qâ??s about half on 40. I didn't have my
5 el 20M yagi until after 17Z Sunday due to rotator problems which
hurt as well.
I do appreciate the calls from the mobiles and all the casual ops on
20, but can't really say it was fun. Phone mobile activity did seem
to be up and thanks to K2CIB and NX1C for searching me out. I
probably won't be back until 2009.
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