[3830] NAQP RTTY NN7SS(K6UFO) Single Op QRP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY

Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: NN7SS

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   17     5
   40:   57    26
   20:  130    41
   15:   27    14
   10:    7     2
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Total:  238    88  Total Score = 20,944

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Team: 

Comments:

I decided to try the QRP challenge, to check how well the QTH and antennas were
working, and I don't have the band filters in place to allow 100w and listening
on the other bands. I thought I could reach last July's QRP winner of 201 QSOs -
and I did make it with 238 QSOs!  

Everything seemed fine in the Thursday and Friday evening practice. Some
emergency tree trimming saturday morning delayed my preparation right to the
start, so I began a little shaky. 

Conditions seemed okay, with some surprises like working AA4LR (GA) on 10m at
21Z! Near 23Z I went 10 minutes without a contact - so it was time to take the
2 hour break.  I wanted to save the last two hours for low bands, since the sun
sets so late here in July (04Z). For a long afternoon to evening 15m was gone,
and 20m was the only band, because I just couldn't get heard yet on 40m. 80m
was just getting better near the end, so I only worked left-coast. 

Had a couple computer problems, like the MMTTY waterfall "freezing" and having
to restart. Also, Auto-CQ didn't seem to work reliably. I had the usual
problems getting all the AFC settings to stay off! I had a few problems where
PTT would drop during a transmission, but one of the restarts to fix MMTTY
seemed to fix it also. I had more cross-band hash interference than I would
expect from 15m to 20m when I tried to listen to the other band. I guess the C3
tribander and Steppir aren't selective enough, or there's a leak somewhere...

Being QRP brought the usual "challenges." I could hear better than I was being
heard.  I eventually only stopped to call LOUD stations, and half of those
would CQ in my face... Also people would come on my CQ frequency and start
CQing without hearing me, so I had to move on. On the other hand - there are
fantastic ears out there who'd get my QRP signal on the first call through all
their East coast QRM - Thanks!

NN7SS "Burt" (op K6UFO Mork!)

2x Yaesu FT-1000MP turned down to 5w.
3-el SteppIR at 55'
Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50'
80-meter half-sloper
Writelog and MMTTY software

QSO/MUL by hour and band
Hour    80M     40M     20M     15M     10M    Total     Cumm    Off
1800Z    -       -     15/11    6/4      -     21/15     21/15  
1900Z    -       -     13/7     5/2     3/1    21/10     42/25  
2000Z    -       -      6/0    10/4     1/0    17/4      59/29  
2100Z    -       -     13/6     5/4     2/1    20/11     79/40  
2200Z    -       -     17/8     1/0     1/0    19/8      98/48    16
2300Z    -       -       -       -       -      0/0      98/48    60
0000Z  --+--   --+--    9/1    --+--   --+--    9/1     107/49    46
0100Z    -      4/3    19/4      -       -     23/7     130/56  
0200Z    -      7/5    26/3      -       -     33/8     163/64  
0300Z   3/2    16/6    12/1      -       -     31/9     194/73  
0400Z   3/0    19/5      -       -       -     22/5     216/78  
0500Z  11/3    11/7      -       -       -     22/10    238/88  
Total:  17/5    57/26  130/41   27/14    7/2


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