[3830] NAQP CW VE3DZ(@VE3SY) Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW

Call: VE3DZ
Operator(s): VE3DZ
Station: VE3SY

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Petersburg, ON
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   66    27
   80:  178    43
   40:  346    52
   20:  331    53
   15:   89    33
   10:   11     7
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Total: 1021   215  Total Score = 219,515

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Team: CCO Team 1

Comments:

Rigs: FT1000MP, FT1000MP Mark V.
Top Ten DX Doubler, CTWIN10.
Antennas: 
160 m: Inv. Vee with apex at 80’
80 m: Dipole at 80’
40m: 2 el. Yagi at 73’ and dipole at 80’
20 m: 4 el. Monoband Yagi at 80’ + A4S at 78’
15 m: 3 el. Monoband Yagi at 85’+ A4S at 78’
10 m: 3 el. Yagi at 90’ + A4S at 78’ 

Thanks again to Paul VE3SY and Marg VE3RE for letting me use Paul’s great
station near Kitchiner, Ontario.
It was my first NAQP from Paul’s, usually I operate NAQP from home. What a
difference! The bands were unbelievably quiet as compared to my small city lot
QTH. Relatively big number of separate antennas allowed almost unlimited
selection of band/antennas on each radio.
15 m was hot at the beginning for about 2 hours. Combined with 20 it gave me a
great 1st hour of 139/hr. instead of usual 90-100/hr.! 10 m was alive too, I
just wish a bit more guys would check in there. 
40 m was great all the time, I believe mainly because of the new 2 el. 40 m
Yagi we put up at 73 ‘ just a couple of months ago. I had an opportunity to
compare it with a dipole at about  the same height and all the W6/W7 that I
have copied solidly on Yagi were becoming almost non-audible when switched to a
dipole. Sorry I had to give up on quite a few callers on 40, 80 and 160 because
of strong static crashes.
I made only one 30 min. break just after 22:00 UTC and finished early. I think
I did the right thing.  
Thanks to all who agreed to move for me – VE4YU, K8JQ, VE2XAA, VE9DX, VA3NR,
W4OC, K8MR, W5KK,  KO7X, K7BG, N4AF, W1EQ, W5VY, W3MC, N3DXX and others.
Thanks for all the Q’s. It was great fun.

73  Yuri


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