North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: W6ONV
Operator(s): W6ONV
Station: W6ONV
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Oakley, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 0 0
80: 8 5
40: 42 22
20: 135 45
15: 24 10
10: 16 7
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Total: 225 89 Total Score = 20,025
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Team: NCCC #3
Comments:
I had hoped for a full 10 hour effort, but planned on 8 hours realistically due
to family priorities. First time in awhile I remember working 5 bands (no 160M)
in a contest and if I would have stuck around until later probably would have
added a few ops on all 5 bands.
Conditions were not great from my QTH with 20M being my "money band" for the
contest. 15M just never seemed to materialize into much. I continued checking
through out most of the contest and would pick up a few mults here and there
but nothing was sustained.
I will consider myself lucky as I seemed to be at the window on 10M when it
opened. While 16 QSO is not overly impressive, I was pleased to get into the
East Coast and Midwest while it was open.
As for 40M, it was noisy and took a lot of work on my part to get a signal out.
Not sure if I am having more issues with the station, but my power seemed really
low, but I was still able to answer many calls. Something I need to look into.
I didn't stick around long enough for 80M, I got the few QSOs I needed to meet
my goal of 225 QSOs and called it a day at just over 8 hours. All my activity
was S&P. One of these days I will be a fine CW operators like so many out there
will run a frequency instead of play S&P. Also something I noted (again), STU is
not the best name to use it seems. I received many requests for a fill on the
name.
FT1000MP, 5-band hex beam @ 40', SteppIR BigIR (80m coil)
For a complete rundown on this NAQP visit www.the6thfloor.com.
Thanks to everyone for the Qs!
73, Steve (STU in NAQP)
W6ONV
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