[3830] SS SSB KC5R Single Op QRP

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Call: KC5R
Operator(s): KC5R
Station: KC5R

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: LA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:  103
   40:  211
   20:  291
   15:  100
   10:     
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Total:  705  Sections = 80  Total Score = 112,800

Club: 

Comments:

My ears are sore and my voice is pretty descent considering running QRP (thank
you, voice keyer). I bettered my score and Qs from last year, so I have no
complaints. I wonder if I could use a second rig running an amp that all it
does is transmit "the frequency is in use" so that stations don't just jump all
over me. Happened a bunch on 20.

Bands here were much like last week. Still not a lot of west coast pouncers on
15, but I was hearing WI/MI on 15. 20 was a mad house sometimes, but I think
every so often enough folks get fed up and leave the band, and then it becomes
workable for QRP. Knowing when to punt is important.

Mults came in funny this year. My last 5 mults were  ME, AK, QC, MB, WCF. I got
VY1JA early on, so I was getting worried when I went to bed still missing 12
mults! QC was hard to find, and the VE2 running the freq was using the "pile-up
and call 5" method, so it made it kept me occupied for a bit. I managed to get
some runs in the late afternoon on 20, and for most of it I kept the beam
pointed North to try to scare up a VE4. Because of that, I worked 34 MN and 41
MI stations! Then VE4EAR called in (..and then I ran into him on 40 calling CQ
later). My last section was WCF! I had to go hunting for WCF on 80 on Sunday
and found W4LT at 0033 for the sweep. Just one of those places in the wrong
proximity that sometime gives a QRPer grief....you just never know.

Only managed one station for the following mults: WCF, LA, AK, NL, QC, MB, and
NT. I heard several other LA's on, but none on 80 or 40 when they were short. I
worked KN5O three miles north of me on 20 for the mult.

Interestingly, the XYL was on her cell phone with my mother this weekend and
she told me my mother could hear my voice on her end through the cell phone. I
found out my mom never realized I changed my call (it's been 8 years), until
she heard the voice and commented it wasn't the same call she heard on her
phone back when I grew up (yeh, but mom I wasn't running the amp into my beam
that was next to the phone line drop like I did back then)...ah the good old
days...

They must put 14 Mhz IFs in these NEC cheapo GSM phones for my 5 watts to
bother it. Funny it never bothers our house wiring, TV, or home phones, but it
gets into a digital cell phone.

I worked 19 other Q stations in SSB (versus 63 in CW). Thanks guys for the
contacts....Al


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