[3830] K7ZO NAQP SSB Multi-Op
K7ZO, Scott Tuthill
k7zo@micron.net
Sun, 22 Aug 1999 19:02:41 -0600
August 1999
NCJ North American QSO Party
CALL USED: K7ZO @ NK7U MODE: PHONE STATE: OR
Valid QSOs Multipliers
____ Single operator 160 12 8
80 46 23
_XX_ Multi operator 40 265 55
20 535 55
15 272 39
10 0 0
TOTAL 1130 180
Claimed Score = 203,400
If multioperator, show calls of all operators, loggers K7ZO, W7ZRC, K7MK,
KD7CB
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The Southwest Idaho Contest Club traveled over to NK7U’s Baker, Oregon
contest superstation to have some fun. Unfortunately, Joe/NK7U, could not
make it, so we carried on without him. Our exchange, “JOE Oregon” was in his
honor.
We used NAQP as our shakedown cruise of WriteLog in a multi-operator,
networked environment. NK7U has been a CT house, but I would say we are
going to be moving to WriteLog for future contests. The networking is great
and when the system did crash, the logs re-sync’d automatically. This
feature alone is worth the price and switch. The customizable screen layouts
are super as well, you can use big screen fonts on the text you look at a
lot. Good on aging eyes. You can also arrange the screen information in a
way that makes the most sense for you by simply dragging and resizing the
boxes. If anyone is interested in more details on our WriteLog experience
send me a note.
As far as the bands go 10M obviously was a big disappointment. We scanned
the band every 20 min or so and never heard a peep. The fact that anyone got
any QSO’s was amazing. Of course you can always work the locals, but out
west here the contesters are few and far between, California not
withstanding. 15M probably was better than our numbers tell as were plagued
by a very high local noise level S5-7 or so. We need to track this down
before CQWW this fall. 20M was our money band and we had a station on it for
probably 10 of the 12 hours. 40M doing great for mults and sure was fun
right at our local sunset when the band just exploded with a great run of 25
stations in 10 minutes. 80/160 suffered from the usual high summer noise
levels. Our multipliers on these bands were low again because of the big
states out here, there just are not many multipliers to work near by. For
example, within 500 miles of NK7U in Baker, OR there are 9 multipliers or
so. Within 500 miles of Boston, there are 17 multipliers. And, like I saw
mentioned in another posting or two, “Where was Nevada?” We missed that
state on all the bands, as well as Alaska. Nebraska and Hawaii found their
way into our logs on only one band. And finally, we sure do miss Jay, VY1JA,
up in the north.
CUL
Scott/K7ZO
QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm
1800Z - - - 70/26 49/24 - 119/50 119/50
1900Z - - - 48/13 45/9 - 93/22 212/72
2000Z - - - 36/2 25/2 - 61/4 273/76
2100Z - - - 58/5 16/0 - 74/5 347/81
2200Z - - - 45/4 44/3 - 89/7 436/88
2300Z - - - 39/0 40/0 - 79/0 515/88
0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 56/0 38/1 --+-- 94/1 609/89
0100Z - - 35/20 45/3 15/0 - 95/23 704/112
0200Z - - 79/23 78/2 - - 157/25 861/137
0300Z - 29/19 65/5 4/0 - - 98/24 959/161
0400Z 3/3 5/1 40/3 41/0 - - 89/7 1048/168
0500Z 9/5 12/3 46/4 15/0 - - 82/12 1130/180
Total: 12/8 46/23 265/55 535/55 272/39 0/0
Multiplier Summary -- as reported by WriteLog, not all these are
NAQP mults, so the count will not correspond to what is reported
in the scoring.
160 Meters
NAM
CA AZ ID OR WA IL IA SD
DX
80 Meters
NAM
MD PA GA KY TN AR OK TX CA ID MT OR WA
OH IL IN WI IA MN MO SK AB BC
DX
40 Meters
NAM
CT MA ME NH RI VT NJ NY PA AL FL GA KY
NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK TX CA HI AZ
ID MT UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN WI CO IA
KS MN MO NE ND SD LAB NB ON MB SK AB BC
DX
KP4 XE YS
20 Meters
NAM
CT MA ME NH RI VT NJ NY DE MD PA AL FL
GA KY NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK TX CA
AZ ID MT UT WY MI OH WV IL IN WI CO IA
KS MN MO ND SD NB PQ ON MB SK AB BC NWT
DX
5U 9Y KP2 KP4 LU OA XE YV
15 Meters
NAM
CT MA ME NH RI VT NJ NY DE MD PA AL FL
GA KY NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK TX CA
OR OH WV CO KS MO SD SK AB
DX
CE KP2 KP4 LU OA PY PZ XE YN
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