Kansas QSO Party
Call: W0W
Operator(s): K0PY
Station: W0W
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Mobile
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 261 0 0 Mults = 41 Total Score = 31,488
Club:
Comments:
This year was challenging to say the least, but I did not have vehicle problems
like last year. :0)
I had a PC with a good battery this time mobile, but I could not make it send
the CW correctly. So I sent the whole contest by hand.
So I did all the sending by hand and wrote them down as the contacts came in.
Then after the run I hand typed them into my PC with the clock set back about
10 minutes. So I asked the contest loggers to go easy on my times. :0)
Also this year I noticed an intermittent power problem the first day in the AM.
That was a first for this rig and antenna setup as I have operated quite a bit
of mobile CW, guess it was my lucky day.
While sending on Saturday the power would drop to 30 Watts and then back to 100
Watts. I stopped on the road and dissambled the screwdriver antenna and cleaned
up connections and all I could think of. The setup just refused to work on 40M
so after that I pretty much just stayed on 20M.
Sunday AM before the contest resumed I put on new grounds and more. Sunday it
was a little better, but it still sometimes had a power loss.
All in all we had a good time handing out the county's on CW, and enjoyed the
KS scenery out east because it has been a while since we have been out there.
The KS QSO party was loads of fun, and its extra nice useing the 1 by 1 call. I
only forgot once or twice and sent K0 then corrected to W0W.
Thanks for the contacts and hope to catch you next year.
73, Mike K0PY/W0W
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