North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 91 24
80: 207 41
40: 72 31
20: 47 19
15: 11 8
10: 1 1
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Total: 429 124 Total Score = 53,196
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team: PVRC Tres
Comments:
Unexpected family obligations took out about 90 minutes of planned my operating
time. QRV at 2355Z Saturday night. Nice to find a few QSOs still available on
15M. Took a 50 minute family break around 0030Z
Lots of Freds and Rods and Bruces. A couple of Ellens and only one other LN,
which how she really signed on CW. There might have been some other memorial
names, too; a few names seemed more prevalent than usual.
40M was noisy for much of the night. All the low bands were plagued by QSB --
rapid fades (and sometimes a burst of QRN) would wipe out a single letter. One
station responding to my CQ had the last letter fade out four times; everything
fine up to the last letter, then it drops to nothing.
Operator performance was down. I messed up everything from turning the big knob
to typing (a constant weakness) to sending with the paddles to using N1MM+.
With two hours left I was exhausted and felt like quitting. I'll need a lot of
introspection to figure out why I felt like that and why I kept going. This one
was five hours of the most stressful fun I've ever had.
So why am I going to it on SSB this coming weekend?
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