Louisiana QSO Party
Call: NO5W
Operator(s): NO5W K1DW
Station: NO5W
Class: RoverCW-Dig LP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs CW-Dig Mults Ph Mults
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160:
80: 6
40: 423
20: 78
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 507 0 0 61 Total Score = 125,158
Club: Jefferson ARC
Comments:
The score includes 100 points for working bonus station N5LCC.
K3/100, Hi-Q 4/80, CQ/X 1.8.1.0, 2002 Pathfinder
Probably the most striking thing about this year's LaQP were the poor conditions
especially on 20m. For example in 2015 with the same operators, same equipment,
and same route we had 808 Qs with 702 of those on 20m, 99 on 40m, and 7 on 15m.
This year the tables were turned between 20m and 40m with 40m being the money
band but not able to produce the Qs that 20m did in 2015.
Still we had fun and even Murphy thought the ride was good as he came along
during the first three parishes to produce the error message "a USB device
has failed". It turns out the USB device was the GPS being used by the
logging computer. As best we could determine the extremely rough roads we were
on had caused the GPS connection to vibrate loose enough that the OS marked it
as a failure. Fortunately a little tape applied to the connection fixed that
problem and Murphy pretty much disappeared for the rest of the day.
Here's how it went on a county basis where the first number is the total Qs in
the county, the second is the initial 10 minute rate in the county and the last
column is the first station logged in the county:
Orleans 39 42 K9CW
Jefferson 33 84 K5OT/2
St.Tammany 32 108 K2DSW
Assumption 28 102 K5OT/2
Plaquemines 27 6 W4IHI
St.James 27 96 N5DO
Iberville 27 84 N2CQ
EastFeliciana 26 78 K0AP
Terrebonne 25 72 N1SOH
St.Bernard 25 132 N5DO
St.Charles 25 96 N5DO
Iberia 23 84 K2DSW
St.Martin 22 72 W0ZQ
Ascension 21 120 W0ZQ
Lafourche 17 72 W0ZQ
St.Helena 16 66 N5DO
St.John 15 84 K0AP
PointeCoupee 15 78 K2DSW
WestFeliciana 14 54 K0AP
St.Mary 14 66 K2DSW
EastBatonRouge 13 60 K2DSW
WestBatonRouge 13 66 K0AP
Livingston 11 60 K0AP
Tangipahoa 10 54 N5DO
Washington 8 36 N5DO
First-caller honors go to Dave-N5DO followed closely by Dragan-K0AP.
Thanks to the following stations who worked us in many parishes contributing
more than half of our QSOs: K2DSW(28), K0AP(26), N5DO(25), KN4Y(23),
K5OT/2(22),
K4AMC(21), N2CQ(21), K0HNC(20), W0ZQ(18), WB9CIF(18), W0TG(15), N6MU(14),
NW0M(13
As is typical in these state QSO parties the morning was slow as seen by the low
QSO numbers in East Baton Rouge - Washington all of which were morning parishes.
The action picked up somewhat during the late afternoon when we were in Orleans,
Jefferson, and St. Tammany. Due to Dallas-K1DW, the driver, having a heavy foot
we actually finished up our route with two hours left in the party and no where
to go except to try 80m and then to succumb to the call of the beer and pizza
where the crew of Jim-W5TUF, Ted-KN5O, Dallas-K1DW, and myself were treated to
some DXpedition tales by David-W5XU who had just returned from Spratly.
Many thanks to Norm-W3DYA who came over from Texas to provide some needed mobile
activity in the north and central part of the state.
Also thanks to Dallas and Lynda for their hospitality putting me up Saturday
night and for the early Sunday morning breakfast and conversation.
Coming up April 7 we will be back on the road sharing the driving and operating
with Skip-W5GAI in the MS QP. We hope for better conditions and hope to put many
of the QSO party group in the log. The route has not been determined yet so if
you need some counties in MS send me an email and we might be able to work it
in.
73/Chuck/NO5W
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