KK1L NAQP CW SO score and comments

[Ronald D Rossi]

                              NA QSO SUMMARY SHEET


    Contest Dates : 11-Jan-97, 12-Jan-97


    Callsign Used : KK1L
         Operator : KK1L

         Category : SOLP

 Default Exchange : RON VT

             Name : Ronald D. Rossi
          Address : RR1 Box 1543
   City/State/Zip : Swanton, VT  05488-9713
          Country : United States



   BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults       TIME ON
 __________________________________________________

  160CW       22          22         22      13        18:00 to 23:36 = 5:36 
   80CW       40          40         40      23        00:20 to 03:10 = 2:50
   40CW       58          58         58      25        03:52 to 05:15 = 1:23
   20CW       35          35         35      21        
   15CW       22          22         22      13        TOTAL ON       = 9:49
   10CW       15          15         15       8        (log times...really 
 __________________________________________________     10hrs even)

 Totals      192         192        192     103


    Final Score = 19776 points.


 Soapbox Comments
 ________________

Nice to work 160m this time and pleased to give some VT mults here. I only 
wish I had a better antenna for it (all in good time). I had to run out back 
and switch the 80m dipole to 160m duty when 160m sounded decent. This leaves 
me with the vertical for domestic 80m work. Experience tells me that I lose 
about 2 S-units within about 1500 miles compared to the dipole turned crappy 
160m vertical. More radials and in-shack switching between 80m and 160m modes 
are forthcoming this summer.

I enjoyed the 10m opening. I spent a bunch switching between 20, 15, and 10. I 
wan't on 20m enough. Was asked a few times to QSY (no surprise). I said no 
once and moved the wrong VFO know the other time and lost the original freq (I 
was waiting for a fill on the QSY freq at the time...sorry OJ!!). I worked 
enough on 4 and 5 bands, but no one on all 6. Thanks to all who put up with my 
?'s and AGN's. I HAVE to get more sleep before these contests (even short 
ones)...if I am the least bit tired I can't copy sh## (when I am fully awake I 
copy at least some sh## anyway). Some YL and harmonic interuptions, but I am
not complaining about it (my family is great!)...ENOUGH EXCUSES!

CU this weekend on six bands again. I busted my vertical on 80m playing with 
my newly acquired 30L-1 on Sunday evening (maybe you heard the mildly 
identified carrier moving around between 3.730 and 3.840?). No other band 
seems to be affected, but it will mean REALLY bad 80m signals when I am
switched to 160m mode on the dipole. I will have to use the 160m vertical
as an 80m vertical too!

-- 
73 de KK1L ex N1PBT...ron (rrossi at btv.ibm.com) <><
Ron Rossi H/P SRAM Engineering -- IBM Microelectronics







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