[3830] NAQP RTTY KS5V Single Op LP

[Ed Larose]

                 North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: KS5V
Operator(s): KS5V
Station: KS5V

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Central Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
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   160:
    80:   64    27
    40:  126    42
    20:  100    35
    15:   26     19
    10:
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Total:  316   123  Total Score = 38,868

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Team: Austin Powers #1

Comments:
A few days before the contest, I installed a new sound card in the computer 
in addition to the one on the mother board. I had in mind SO2R operation in 
the future.  Well, I didn't check out the system before the contest and 
quickly found out that I was getting no receive audio from the radio.  Gee, 
it seemed so simple.  Then after probably 15 minutes of tracing the wires 
and making sure they were all plugged in and being totally perplexed, I 
remembered that I had installed the new sound card. Plugged the right wire 
to the mic input of the sound card and voila, I was up and running and 
feeling pretty stupid.  I know no one else would ever do anything like that!

Mediocre score for a mediocre station but no complaints.  I've got to 
improve my situation on 80 meters, a lot of far north stations that I 
printed fine could not hear me.  The 80m antenna is an 80m loop 8ft above 
ground.  The upper band antenna is a 2 el. 5 band delta loop 30ft above 
ground.  Of course I always do these contest to just have a good 
time.  Wish I could have been there for the full 10 hours and the first 3 
hours instead of shutting down at 0600Z.  Oh well, there's next year.  See 
y'all then.