South Carolina QSO Party - 2023
Call: KY4ID
Operator(s): KY4ID
Station: KY4ID
Class: Cnty ExpedMixed LP
QTH: South Carolina
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
6:
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Total: 700 358 0 CW Mults = 59 Ph Mults = 58 Dig Mults = 0 Total
Score = 484,994
Club: Augusta University ARC
Comments:
What a crazy ride! The day started out easy enough. Setup was at 8am at
Henderson Heritage Area in Aiken County. We wanted to leave plenty time to work
out any glitches. There were a few, but nothing major. RBN spots showed great
propagation. Had a couple of visitors beforehand which was neat. “It that a
science project?” “Are y’all fishing for something with that thing?”
Yes, as a matter of fact we are. Ha! Rainy and a little chilly, but great action
with 180+ Qs in 2 hours. Calls from all over, including AK, DX, and close in
stations as well.
Next up was Edgefield. Not a POTA entity, but we did have a large, beautiful
park in Trenton, SC all to ourselves. CW was steady and SSB was rockin…which
was a nice, casual buildup to what awaited us next.
From the beginning, we had our sights set on McCormick and Abbeville counties.
36 total Qs from both last year. We expected the action to be strong…being
asked MCOR? In Edgefield reinforced those predictions. McCormick (Hamilton
Branch) was an absolute 5 alarm dumpster fire. Y’all brought the heat and we
loved every second of it. Almost half our Qs came from there. Unfortunately,
that heat didn’t transfer to the physical world. It got very dark, cold,
foggy, and all of that had an impact on operating. Lot’s of busted sending,
fat fingered keywork, etc. Pretty embarrassing, but we appreciate y’all
sticking with it.
We ended the night in Abbeville (Sumter National Forest), going live with only
about an hour to spare. Y’all were still with us. Great action all the way to
the end.
Conditions were excellent! Great short/long skip on 20m/40m all day long.
Couldn’t have asked for a better day. Huge shoutout to my partner in crime,
Andy Goss, AA5JF, who floated the idea of this crazy M2, 4 county portable
mission. 4 counties ended up being the magic number. As the action was dying
down, it was time for us to move anyway. And being able to operate M2 meant
someone was on SSB and CW at all times. No mults left on the table. It was a
blast and we look forward to doing it again!
Thanks again for hunting us and for all of the Qs!!
Equipment – N1MM+, 2x FT-991a, resonant dipoles, doublet, EFHW, BPFs
(surprisingly not needed most of the time)
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