[3830] TxQP N5NA SO CW Mobile LP

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                    Texas QSO Party

Call: N5NA
Operator(s): N5NA
Station: N5NA

Class: SO CW Mobile LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 16

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:    13             
   40:   281             
   20:   873             
   15:                   
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
  UHF:                   
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Total:  1167    0       0  Mults = 106  Total Score = 396,106

Club: 

Comments:

Score includes 25000 bonus points for activating 25 counties.


First off a BIG THANKS to my wife, K5AKS, for driving me all over west Texas
this weekend, a total of 855 miles!

Wow, what a blast!  This is the first time I've operated both days in the QSO
party.  I usually just operate Saturday and call it good.  This year I mapped
out a more ambitious route with a stop over in Alpine.  We arrived in Alpine at
7 pm to complete a 10 hour day just in time for dinner.  Sunday the route cut
the time a bit closer arriving in our last county, Ector, about 16 minutes
before the end.  If we hadn't have left Alpine 30 minutes before the start we
wouldn't have made it.

The other change this year was the addition of a K3 for my mobile rig.  In the
past I've used my Icom 706MkIIg.  The K3's noise reduction really helped with
the line noise which seems to be along EVERY road.  I know there were some
stations calling at times but with the noise I just couldn't pull them out,
even with the K3.

My other equipment consists of a High Sierra HS-1500 with manual control,
Winkey, a 2000 Chevrolet C2500, a Dell Inspiron 2200 running NO5W's CQ/X.  CQ/X
is the ONLY way to go if you're operating mobile in a QSO party!

The following counties were activated with the indicated number of QSOs: 
Terrell(82), Culberson(73), Crockett(71), Pecos(61), Winkler(60), Upton(56),
Reeves(53), Andrews(51), Presidio(49), Brewster(47), Reagan(47), Ward(44),
Crane(43), Loving(43), Howard(42), Irion(41), Hudspeth(40), Martin(39),
Borden(37), JeffDavis(36), Ector(35), Midland(34), Dawson(34), Glasscock(33),
and Gaines(23).

Thanks to the following stations for contributing more than half of my QSOs: 
W0GXQ(25), N6MU(23), N9FC(23), KV8Q(22), DL3DXX(22), W4UCZ(20), WA3HAE(20),
W4IX(18), N1LN(18), W9MSE(16), N4CD(16), NT2A(16), K9CW(15), N3RJ(14),
N8II(13), A9ZES(13), W9UX(13), W7GVE(13), NX5M(12), K5LH(12), WF5X(12),
AA6YX(12), DL5AWI(12), N8NA(11), WA6KHK(10), KT4LF(10), K8JQ(10), SM7ZDI(10),
K4LRP(10), K8DD(10), SP5SA(10), K6WSC(9), N3UM(9), AD5WI(9), NM5G(9), W8IQ(9),
KB9BIT(9), K2SX(9), K9OSC(9), K8QWY(8), KN4Y(8), KI6OY(8), W0ETT(8), ND3R(8),
KM1C(7), and N9NE(7).

Thanks to everyone who called and thanks to NARS and NO5W for a great job
sponsoring the Texas QSO Party!


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