[3830] Stew Perry K5IUA SO QRP

[kb5iua at tgn.net]

                     Stew Perry Topband Challenge
                    
Call: K5IUA
Operator(s): 
Station: 

Class: SO QRP
Grid Square: EL29
Operating Time (hrs): 10
 

QSOs:  102  Score: 1,300

Club: 

Comments:

After building the parasitic array this summer and running high power during 
the ARRL contest I thought I would try QRP. The effort was S/P only. It is 
still amazing to me that folk's that were only about a half a step ahead of the 
sheriff came back on the first call, While others that were S9 or better never 
did get a QSO. I did not work everybody that I heard but it was close. There 
was a lot of QSB and many times I would have to wait for a peak to work a 
station. A large percentage of folk's that did not get worked were running 30 
WPM or better and I could not get my whole call in at 20 WPM before they were 
CQ'ing again. It seemed that those folk's were just not listening or were not 
interested in working a weak station. Another point to ponder is that many 
stations asked for confirmation of the EL in the exchange. They would get the 
number but could not copy or would not believe that they were working an EL. 

Bottom line: It was fun!!!

John


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