North American QSO Party, CW
Call: N4CBK
Operator(s): N4CBK
Station: N4CBK
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 8.63
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 101 40
40: 100 36
20: 45 25
15: 17 5
10: 28 2
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Total: 265 108 Total Score = 28,620
Club:
Team: ACG #2
Comments:
Great to see all the ACG and SCCC in the house! Worked K4ZGB, K4TD, N4OGW,
K4BAI, K4NO, N4KG. Another highlight was working David Sumner/K1ZZ, ARRL Chief
Executive Officer. These guys at the ARRL don't just talk about ham radio, they
do it!
Interesting comparison between this year's result and last year's. Last year:
20/15 meter Moxons at 45 feet, full-wave horizontal 80-meter delta loop and
made 265 Q's in 10 hours "casually". (That means getting up from the chair a
lot and going around the house to see what else is going on.)
This year: 80-meter inverted-V Tangle-Doublet (called that because of the way
it looks in the trees behind the apartment.) 265 Q's glued to the seat for 8.5
hours. My CW is certainly better, but there is no substitute for an antenna. I
don't remember who the guy was (K7 I believe) but he was really having a hard
time hearing me and I him. I thought, "WTH? This is going to be a lousy contest
if the conditions don't get any better!" I manged to work him, but not after a
couple of repeats. Somewhere in Arizona there is a guy who worked me on the
dummy load in my tuner. Everyone sounded much better when I switched to the
antenna. Thanks for the Q's especially the ones where I was converting RF to
heat.
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