[3830] K4RO CW NAQP Single Op Score
K4RO Kirk Pickering
k4ro at k4ro.net
Sun Aug 8 14:41:33 EDT 1999
CW NAQP SUMMARY SHEET
Contest Dates : 07-Aug-99, 08-Aug-99
Station Used : K4RO Operator : K4RO
Default Exchange : KIRK TN
Category : Single Op Team/Club : Tennessee Contest Group # 1
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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160CW 62 62 62 22
80CW 145 145 145 42
40CW 221 215 215 40
20CW 171 169 169 42
15CW 59 59 59 23
10CW 16 16 16 8
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Totals 674 666 666 177
Final Score = 117,882 points.
About 1600Z Saturday I threw my lower back out. It was all I could
do to crawl to the radio chair. Even with 1.5 grains of codiene in
me, I was still seeing stars and in tears through much of the contest.
Definately the most painful time I've ever spent in front of the
radio. Fortunately, it turned out that sitting erect was one of the
few tolerable positions. That plus not wanting to let down my TCG
team members, I stuck it out. The real fun was trying to get into
and out of the chair. If you've had back pain, you know what I am
talking about. If you haven't, consider yourself very lucky. Off
times were dictated by both rate and pain. I took breaks earlier
than usual, which was perhaps not such a bad idea.
NAQP is still one of my favorite contests, even with the sometimes
poor conditions we get in the August edition. Couldn't get anything
going on 10 or 15 meters, and had a pitiful 10 meter multiplier number.
All of my 10 and 15 meter QSOs were S&P on the second radio, as I could
not get answers to CQs on those bands. Hopefully made up for some of
the poor mult count on 160, where I was able to hear fairly well thanks
to the Beverages installed in February. The high N4KG 40m boom dipole
works fine at 100W, and gave me the biggest QSO band this time.
Pushed the second radio harder than ever, keeping it "active" for
most of the contest. Usually I just check it every now and then, but
this time I made over 220 band changes and over 100 QSO's on rig 2.
Starting to feel a little more confident about using it. Plus, I
can always find another CQ frequency in the NAQP if I lose it. I also
CQed on rig 2 for the first time, starting to eliminate the distinction
between a "main" and "S&P" radio. Still need more A/B antenna switching
to make that a reality.
I've got to get with the mult moving game. The biggest problem is that
I still don't have a real good feel for what can be moved where and when.
Made maybe 10 successful moves and a few unsuccessful ones.
Nice to see the DX activity including LU, UT, KH6, KP2/4, and also 11-year
old Laurie KE6YNW in there. Congrats to all the TCG team players for
a great effort. See you in the SSB edition, and thanks for the QSOs.
-Kirk K4RO
Rate K4RO NAQP CW Aug 99
HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
18 0 0 0 57 25 6 88 88
19 0 0 0 11 4 0 15 103
20 0 0 9 26 4 3 42 145
21 0 0 28 25 1 1 55 200
22 0 0 49 6 8 5 68 268
23 0 0 25 2 10 1 38 306
0 0 0 33 17 5 0 55 361
1 0 21 21 24 1 0 67 428
2 0 69 17 1 0 0 87 515
3 35 3 0 0 0 0 38 553
4 15 37 12 0 0 0 64 617
5 12 15 22 0 1 0 50 667
TOTAL 62 145 216 169 59 16
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