California QSO Party
Call: AI6DO
Operator(s): AI6DO
Station: AI6DO
Class: SOFixed LP
QTH: LANG
Operating Time (hrs): 5
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 8
20: 15
15: 4
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 27 0 Mults = 13 Total Score = 1,053
Club:
Comments:
KX3 + KXPA100 @ 5 to 40W to a fan dipole antenna at 20 ft in attic.
A disappointing first entry in the CQP and the LP power category. I was excited
to hit this contest with the new amp and N1MM set up so I'd be GTG to run with a
better QSO rate than S&P. Nothing doing! Operating QRP with an attic
antenna, I normally can work most CQers I can copy. But with 20W, I got called
many times by folks too faint for me to copy, and had many QSOs busted by
intermittent QRN and QSB. Also had N1MM frequently switch to Run mode from
S&P in the middle of a QSO, which caused me to accidentally send the
"TU...CQ" message instead of the "TU exchange" message. If
one of those was you, my apologies! If that weren't enough, using more than 20W
on 20M disrupted our Wi-fi, which wasn't appreciated by the XYL or kid. Time to
go to town with the ferrites and look into an antenna upgrade. Thanks for the
QSOs!
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