Florida QSO Party - 2019
Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II
Class: SOABCW LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 15.3
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 164 35
20: 227 177
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 381 212 CW Mults = 67 Ph Mults = 52 Total Score = 236,572
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Conditions left a lot to be desired; I was "out in the cold" when 20
went long around 19Z both days. I also had S7 line noise on 20 until quite late
Saturday which made running on SSB and hearing weak CW mobiles much more
difficult. There were about 3 guys I had to give up on 20 phone and more could
have been under the noise. After being dead to FL by 22Z Saturday, 20M
eventually opened to most all of FL around 24Z thanks to sporadic E. But, the
troops did not return in enough numbers to work many new stations except mobiles
who were mostly on 40. 40 CW was quite crowded Saturday evening. Fixed FL
stations were loud. The sporadic E weakened the mobiles (higher MUF =
absorption) and buried them in a sea of callers who were all much louder, no
skip zone at all for about 2 hours! The pile ups then were so huge that even the
best ops in FL were bogged down and my signal was just not enough in about 4
piles. K4KG/M was heard in NAS, then DUV and missed him in both. He is super
fast at running a pile up. Sunday morning 2 hours after sunrise, the mobiles
were actually louder on 40 than the night before, but 20 failed to open well to
even central FL until 14Z. I missed a lot of potential mobile/rover Q's due to
no propagation.
The good new is that Sunday I was able to run quite a few stations on 20 SSB
from 16-18Z, a surprise after a poor Saturday. Many were not that loud, but I
have to assume my frequency was clear in FL based on their ease of copy. The
other good news is that the mobiles showed up in numbers as usual which kept
things interesting the great majority of the time. Many thanks to rovers/mobiles
K8MR, N4CW, K2CIB, N4DAB, K4FCG, KU8E, K4OJ, N4TO, K4KG, KN4Y, N4FP, AD4EB and
AD4ES. I probably worked K4OJ the most thanks to their 2 bands at once
operation. George, K4KG was the most important boost to my score thanks to CW to
SSB QSY's to substantially increase my phone mults, many thanks. Saturday
afternoon/evening, I could not find him or others when 20 died which hurt the
phone mult total as well as Sunday when he was too busy running 20 CW to ask for
a QSY.
I had 63 CW counties by the end of Saturday. Sunday I added BAK, N4CW in GIL,
AD4EB in OKE, and after I though he might have already run HOL, KN4Y was found
with a good signal at 1747Z for the sweep(unlike last year when nil QSO). He was
there for about another 20 minutes.
Thanks to all of the rover Q's and the runs on SSB Sunday, I squeezed out the
600+ Q's. Stations farther north definitely had and advantage. Also, it was
weird to be beaten out on 40 at 13Z by N7IR who had the advantage of lower MUF I
assume.
Thanks for all of the calls and to the mobiles who dug me out. K4OJ probably dug
the most, especially on 40 which sounded nearly dead while 20 was open during
the day. Around 2130Z, I started getting decent signals on 40. And, thanks to
all of the Sunday "drivers" who stopped by for a QSO on 20 phone.
73, Jeff
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