[3830] NAQP CW K4RO Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW

Call: K4RO
Operator(s): K4RO
Station: K4RO

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:  137    32
   80:  248    51
   40:  279    50
   20:  180    40
   15:   65    14
   10:    8     3
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Total:  917   190  Total Score = 174,230

Club: Tennessee Contest Group

Team: TCG: A Yankee...

Comments:

This TCG Team was called "TCG - A Yankee, 3 Good Ol' Boys, and One Bald Guy."
I actually qualify for all three of those titles, but I think I'm balder
than all of the other ops combined. :-)

Interesting contest this time out.  My Tailtwister at 95 feet failed
during CQWWCW, and I finally replaced it on Monday. I sure am glad to
have that working again, and it's good to know that I can handle the
replacement task OK when it becomess necessary again.  Other than the 
rotator, the station was in pretty good shape and ready for the great 
NAQP CW Contest.


Ten was almost useless.  I did work VP5, PA (AA3B) and of course TN.

Fifteen was not much better, unless I just missed the good openings.
Sounded like the west coast was making hay there at the opening bell.

Twenty had great skip to start.  I probably should have milked 
it harder.  I bet I could have landed another half-dozen mults
if I'd CQed there more often like I heard N4ZZ doing. Twenty was 
wide open to both coasts throughout the afternoon. 

Forty was the place to be, as there are always new operators
and new propagation paths opening through the afternoon and
evening. It seemed if things slowed down, forty brought it back.

Eighty was very productive despite some pretty noisy conditions
as the evening progressed.  I never worked a single California
station on eighty, which is unusual for me.

One-sixty was a bit more of a grind, but it was steadily productive.
The band got noisier as the night went on, and I was glad to have
taken the last half hour off.

I had terrible line noise from about 2-4:30PM local time. The good 
news is that the offending pole should be finally getting some 
attention on Tuesday.  It's been a problem for 3 months now.

Not as many mults or successful moves this time.  There were a couple 
I remember - like AA3B on 10 meters and N4GN on 20 and 15 (but alas, 
not 10.)  Also Peter WW2Y gave me an extra NE mult on a move.  Thanks 
guys!  I put in more band changes than I've ever had before (300.) 

I experienced some serious deliberate interference on 7.039 at 21:40Z.
It was a warbly kind of digital modulation that I did not recognize.
It made copy of CW signals basically impossible.  The jammer stayed
at it for at least an hour, harrassing others as I tuned past 7.040.

Thanks to neighbor WB4QDA for giving me a break the last half hour
of the contest by going QRP (or QRT?) so I could finish the game.

Thanks for all of the QSOs amd QSY attempts.  This contest is a blast.

73

-Kirk  K4RO


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