[3830] NAQP SSB NR5M Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - August

Call: NR5M
Operator(s): NR5M
Station: NR5M

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Hempstead, Texas
Operating Time (hrs): 10 
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   21    12
   80:   88    31
   40:  357    50
   20:  647    52
   15:    1     1
   10:    2     2
-------------------
Total: 1116   147  Total Score = 164,052

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Team: Summertime Blues Cure

Comments:

In retrospect my strategy was flawed and it cost me dearly with early rate on
20.  Started on 15 - nothing  Then 10 - nothing,  Just a few minutes earlier
there we signals on both bands.  Guess I was the only one to try them at the
beginning.

A special thanks to Bob, N6TV, for the SO2R scripts that played flawlessly with
Win-Test and MicroHam MK2R+.  Wish I was better at using them.  I am unable to
operate SO2R while trying to maintain 120+ rates.

Used ESM (enter sends message) for first half of the contest.  Sorry to those
that had to bear the brunt of my learning curve on that technique.  For me it
is just plain faster to do it the old fashioned way (which I did for the latter
part of the contest).  

I have no idea whether it was just me or was this a tougher contest than other
recent ones?

Still had lots of fun as usual. Thanks to all for the Q's and especially to
Ken, W5AAC, and Bill, K5GA, for their help fixing up the station prior to the
contest. 

George, NR5M

-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1800       0      0      0     98      1      0     99     99    8.8
1900       0      0      0    121      0      0    121    220   10.8
2000       0      0      0    134      0      0    134    354   11.9
2100       0      0      0    128      0      0    128    482   11.4
2200       0      0      0     68      0      0     68    550    6.1
2300       0      0      0      7      0      0      7    557    0.6
0000       0      0     83      1      0      0     84    641    7.5
0100       0      0     18     90      0      0    108    749    9.6
0200       0      0    136      0      0      0    136    885   12.1
0300       0      4    120      0      0      0    124   1009   11.0
0400      15     63      0      0      0      0     78   1087    6.9
0500       6     21      0      0      0      2     29   1116    2.6
------------------------------------------------------
Total     21     88    357    647      1      2   1116

Gross QSO's=1123        Dupes=7        Net QSO's=1116

Unique callsigns worked = 916

The best 60 minute rate was 157/hour from 0221 to 0320
The best 30 minute rate was 164/hour from 0221 to 0250
The best 10 minute rate was 204/hour from 0236 to 0245


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