[3830] NA Sprint SSB W3DOS(K9GY) QRP

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                    NA Sprint SSB Contest

Call: W3DOS
Operator(s): K9GY
Station: W3DOS

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: DC
Operating Time (hrs): 2.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Op Time
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   80:             
   40:   3         
   20:  38       14
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Total:  41     Mults = 14  Total Score = 574

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: PVRC No. 1

Comments:

"COLIN" took a break this contest so "BUSH" filled in for him. 
Unknown to me that KI9A used "BUTCH" which must of thrown some people off, hah!


FT-817 (boy what a nice little radio!) 
20m: Tennadyne T8 LPA (5.8 dbd)
40m: folded dipole 

Sounds like some software has problems accepting DC. They must not be using 
WriteLog since WL is AOK with entering DC. Time to upgrade to WL...
Location is physically in DC. If they wanted to name it Maryland then 
they never would have called it DC.

Goal was 100 Qs QRP...First hour was encouraging with 23 Qs. Although I had 
to ask myself if it was the Calif QSO Party contest, hah! Noise was pretty 
high on 20m as others have mentioned. Then during the second hour I hit the 
40m wall...QRP SSB on 40m does not work well, hah! Was able to get 15 Qs in 
the second hour and 3 more after that. 

The all time highlight was working Ann AL1G in Alaska! Wow I felt like 
a kid again being able to work AK with QRP :-) 

Used the Yaesu hand mike that comes with the radio which seemed to work aok. 
The computer/radio interface worked aok too with WriteLog. Guess if I had 
known most of my QSOs would be on 20m the interface would not have been that 
important. 

Mults worked with QRP: 
20m: CA, VA, WA, MN, ID, KS, BC, NE, LA, TX, MD, CO, AK, OR (14) 
40m: VA, MN, CO (3) 

CQ CONTEST! 

73, Eric


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