Kansas QSO Party
Call: N0A
Operator(s): K0RU, N1HWCL, N0MTC
Station: K0RU
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: Gardner, KS
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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80: 12 5 0
40: 53 66 4
20: 199 286 66
15: 7 0 0
10: 0 0 0
6: 0 0 0
2: 0 0 0
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Total: 271 357 70 Mults = 52 Total Score = 81,216
Club: Kansas City DX Club
Comments:
Ops were = K0RU-Rob, N1HWC-Bill, N0MTC-Larry
(Score = Points + 100 bonus points for KS0KS)
Score break down (modes/bands)
Band Mode QSOs Pts Mlt
3.5 CW 12 36 1
3.5 LSB 5 10 0
7 CW 53 159 12
7 JT65 2 6 1
7 LSB 66 132 9
7 PSK3 2 6 0
14 CW 199 597 21
14 PSK3 66 21 1
14 USB 286 570 7
21 CW 7 21 0
Total Both 698 1558 52
Score: 81,116
We started out doing great, operated 1 transmitter and 2 ops taking turns on
Saturday, we had a ball. Bill would do the PSK31 stuff and then with alittle
push and shove from me I got him going on SSB to bag and tag many contacts.
I ran all the CW contacts and most of the SSB contacts. I had a ball, loved my
new Heil Boom Headset/Mic configuration. (never been a phone contester) but
doing the hands free was amazing and really made my life simpler for logging.
Logging program was N1MM, we bumped and thumped our way through using that as
I've been a WinTest user for the big contest. I must say, the N1MM digital
interface was absolute JUNK, I didn't care for the decoding capabilities of
that MMVAR goofy thing and the interfacing with my MMTTY was nuts getting it to
do RTTY using FSK although we did finally get that figured out late Friday
before the contest, turns out that during the KSQP on Saturday RTTY was
worthless gave up on that mode quickly. I think we worked 2 - RTTY stations if
even that don't recall now but it was hard work getting even those.
20M DX was just nuts on Saturday and Sunday we were working stations left and
right in a pileup for hours on both Saturday and Sunday that was alot of fun.
Remember this was the KSQP not a CQWW or WPX contest we didn't expect to see
that number of stations calling us especially the DX stations.
We loved running the 1x1 call N0A, and having the QRZ.COM Bio setup to explaing
the special event station made is so much more exciting. I'm looking forward to
running another 1x1 call again next year, that was alot of fun.
We didn't have any troubles, other than the RTTY issue, although we did have
alot of PSK31 and just for fun we ran a QSO on the JT65 mode and to our
surprize we worked 2 stations on 40M using JT65, the exchange was very smooth
considering you have a standardize exchange used in that mode, we were able to
run it very smoothly and it was fun, we will definitly try to do that along
with some 2 meter and 6 meter FSK441 stuff next year as I'm in the process of
setting up a 6 meter eme here so it will be fun trying those modes next year.
We worked alot of friends and some of the local KS Stations were very hard to
copy, we had many difficulties dealing with the QRN on both 40 & 80 meters even
with my beverages we had a struggle coping many folks the constant static was
just crazy for us especially on Saturday, on Sunday it got alittle better.
One station mentioned some of his trials and tribulations when working KSQP on
PSK31, what I found out that worked was modifing my exchange to this.
CALL de N0A 599 JOH = (Johnson County, KS) I need your RST and STATE pls CALL
de N0A
Then for the TU I ran this
CALL TU de N0A special event station for KSQP 150 Anniversary of Statehood we
need your RST and STATE de N0A KSQP QRZ
etc, the stations just kept coming and coming till finally we got bored with
that hahaha, but we tried to let people know we were running the digital psk31
as well but it was alot of fun in anycase. Looking forward to running the
digital modes again next year.
Thanks for all the contact and we look forward to running the KSQP again next
year...
73 de Rob K0RU
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