North American QSO Party, CW - August
Call: K1LT
Operator(s): K1LT
Station: K1LT
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Ohio EM89ps
Operating Time (hrs): 9:58
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 101 28
80: 193 40
40: 153 45
20: 320 51
15: 29 15
10: 4 4
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Total: 800 183 Total Score = 146,400
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Team: NCC/MRRC Team 1
Comments:
This is my first full-time effort in the North American Grid Chase --
er, I mean QSO Party. My previous efforts were in 2009 and 2010 when
I was building up my 160 meter station and chasing states on phone for
the Triple Play award.
Hal was right to say take all the off-times early. I took 30 minutes
every couple of hours except the last one because the rates became
decent. During the next-to-last off-time, I was listening to 10
meters and heard WD0T in South Dakota. I got a bit ahead of myself
and worked him 7 minutes before the end of my 31 minute time out. So
I marked the QSO 'unclaimed'. I hope that doesn't break any rules.
Seems like one could almost skip the first 2 hours and just operate 10
hours straight.
W9RE moved me to 15 and 10, which worked. So I moved K8RYU to 15
which worked but didn't hear him on 10. I tried to move N8BJQ to 10,
but didn't hear him either. Sorry for wasting you guys' time.
I need to fix my SO2R setup to work on the high bands. The antenna
switching is there, but it needs to be a bit more flexible. I really
like having a second tribander to feed to the sub-receiver in the main
radio. I use diversity mode all the time.
I think I succeeded in making a bunch of SO2R QSOs without CQing on
top of the station I'm trying to work. The auto-restart for the CQ
message is handy, but I think the same thing could be accomplished
slightly more cleanly if there was a single button to restart the CQ
on the other radio. If only there was 'open source' software where
anyone could change something.
I heard several MRRCers on several bands, but only worked a few.
There wasn't much short skip today. The nighttime noise wasn't very
bad but it was getting noisier towards the end.
Equipment: K3/100, P3, K3/10, Hardrock 50 (which gets to 70 watts),
homebrew SO2R stuff, 2 tribanders, full sized verticals for the low
bands, and some receiving antennas.
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