Michigan QSO Party - 2020
Call: N8SBE
Operator(s): N8SBE
Station: N8SBE
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MI
Operating Time (hrs): 7.3
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 4 206
40: 89
20: 4
15:
10:
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Total: 4 299 CW Mults = 4 Ph Mults = 77 Total Score = 24,867
Club: ARROW Communications Assn
Comments:
Took three breaks: MiQRP annual meeting via Zoom, dinner, and a nice long QSO
with Andy, W8PIX. Well, isn't a QSO party to get out and meet and talk with
folks?
20M was just rough. Not much going on there whenever I checked. 40M went away
fairly early, so I nestled down on 80M phone for the remainder. This is really
the only contest where a small pistol station like mine can actually hold a
frequency, since everyone is looking for Michigan stations.
Too bad I strayed 500 Hz into the 80M SSB DX Window (really?) at 3790-3800 kHz
LSB, and was chased back down the band to 3787 kHz. I can't operate in the area
just above 3800 kHz, due to 20 dB over 9 digital noise from my neighbor's
AT&T U-Verse modem uplink. Foo.
So, all in all, did OK considering it was part-time, and virtually all of my 80M
SSB contacts were in the Advanced class portion of the band, so there were less
stations there to work. I pretty much left a lot of points on the table, by not
doing any more CW contacts than I did. But, I was consistently making contacts
on SSB, so I wasn't much tempted to switch to CW, which looked kind of sparse
when I checked.
Maybe I'll have my RFI problems solved next year, and maybe the sunspot cycle
will be in the upswing....
73,
-- Dave, N8SBE
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