[3830] AzQP N7AT(@K8IA) M/S HP

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                    Arizona QSO Party

Call: N7AT
Operator(s): N7RQ K8IA
Station: K8IA

Class: M/S HP
QTH: AZMCP
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
  160:    5       0     0
   80:    0      40     0
   40:   68      44     0
   20:  244     955     0
   15:   11       3     0
   10:    0       0     0
    6:    0       0     0
    2:    0       0     0
----------------------------
Total:  328    1042     0  Mults = 107  Total Score = 181,365

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Comments:

CW Position: 
Orion II, Alpha 91B

SSB Position:
FT-1000MP, Acom 1000

Dunestar 600 Band-Pass Filters
Array Solutions SixPak 
N1MM Logger, version 9.10.1, networked

Antennas:
160 – Shunt-Fed Tower, 78’, w/60 radials, K9AY Rx Loops, Short “bent”
Beverage
80 – Inverted Vee at 66’
40 – CW: M-Squared 40M3L 3 el yagi at 71’, SSB: Inverted L
20 thru 10: 3 el SteppIR at 78’; Bencher Skyhawk at 45’


A STRONG thumbs up to my fellow Arizona Outlaws Contest Club members for
showing up and putting Arizona on the air in a big way! 

Kudos to you non-Outlaw AZ participants as well. You need to be Arizona
Outlaws! I know who you are and I will be in touch. Count on it! ;-)

The first running of the Arizona QSO Party appears successful. Gary, KE7DX, and
his team did quite well in organizing and promoting the event. Next year I am
certain it will be even bigger and better.

I’m not a big state qso party participant. It’s been 30+ years since the
last one I had any interest in. Plus, I don’t think xyl Sandy N7RQ ever
operated in one. Oh, we do 7QP but a state qso party is a different animal. The
AZQP caught our attention and I know we’ll be back.

We took this one pretty casually. Lots of breaks, a couple of good NHL games on
TV, some quality time with the animals etc. Just an easy going contest for us.
Tag team Multi-Single operation, one band at a time. The SO2R single-ops will
be way more efficient.

SSB activity was off the charts to what I was expecting. Sandy had a seemingly
never-ending supply of 20m-ssb q’s every time she sat down. Right up to the
end. Yeah, she made every one of those 955 20m ssb qso's!

CW activity could have been better, but, hey, it was the first year of the
event and I am optimistic that future years will bring many more of the cw
crowd into the fray.

The DX activity and the allowable multipliers from DX countries were a real
perk to the operation. Both Sandy and I had some nice little DX runs going,
just like a DX contest where we were the hunted!

This contest had a side benefit. It uncovered a tech problem with some new
equipment here, that I hadn’t seen before, and plenty of time for me to lick
that problem before CQWW SSB.

Tnx agn Outlaws, non-Outlaws and all the out of state participants. You made a
fun weekend.

73, Bob K8IA
88, Sandy  N7RQ
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club – N7AT


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