[3830] NAQP CW K3KU Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW

Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    1     1
   80:  186    36
   40:   52    17
   20:           
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  239    54  Total Score = 12,906

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: 

Comments:

After finishing family obligations, started at 0000Z.  High bands dead; 40M
weak.  Had fun on 80M, even managing to run.  Nice not to be clobbered by the
KW stations.  Interesting to watch the propagation shift, even on 80M.

I had decided ahead of time that I would QSY to another band if asked; to
practice fast band changes, and just to be nice.  Only one guy, K3CR, asked me
to move  -- to 160M.  Well, to get on 160M I have to disconnect the coax'es
ffor the antenna (95-ft dipole) and xcvr from the Transmatch; use a clip lead
to connect to connect the xcvr coax center pin to both sides of the antenna
coax; and remember how to activate and operate the internal tuner in the
TS-850.  And with all that the SWR is still about infinity, and I am running
about 10W.  So I said to Alex "I'm very weak."  He wanted to try anyhow, so I
said "Give me three minutes."  And there he was, for my only QSO on 160M; and
the mult.  I think that next time I will not QSY to 160M for just anybody. 
:>)

Worked several active op's whom I do not remember from SS CW.  I hope that the
people who like the QSO once-per-band and the short report also like the
non-challenge of auto-fill for the report after QSO on the first band.  I know
I had several second-band QSO's that would not have happened if you actually
had to copy the report (gasp!).

I will submit an absolutely un-massaged log.  Mr. Fumble Fingers here might
still have one name in the log as "Barrry".  I noticed the error, but I can't
remember if I fixed it during the test.  (QRX one while I go back and proof
read these comments.)

73, Art K3KU


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