[3830] 3830 Digest, Vol 85, Issue 99

[David and Amy McCarty]

Wow, wow, wow.  Last minute decision to set up and win it all!

Hope all is well outside of contesting for ya, Bob.

Dave in sunny Qatar

> Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:56:28 -0800
> From: webform at b41h.net
> Subject: [3830] NAQP SSB NX5M M/2 LP
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, nx5m at txcyber.com
> Message-ID: <201001170656.o0H6uSYI022944 at b41h.net>
> 
>                     North American QSO Party, SSB - January
> 
> Call: NX5M
> Operator(s): NX5M, N5XJ, KU5B
> Station: NX5M
> 
> Class: M/2 LP
> QTH: TEXAS
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   160:  287    52
>    80:  625    57
>    40:  795    64
>    20:  892    60
>    15:  186    40
>    10:    0     0
> -------------------
> Total: 2785   273  Total Score = 760,305
> 
> Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
> 
> Team: 
> 
> Comments:
> 
> We had talked about not doing this one but decided Saturday 
> morning to go ahead
> and do it.  KU5B gave N5XJ a call to see if he was going to 
> come up.....when he
> said "yes" that is when we decided to go ahead and go for it. 
>  So 2 hours before
> the contest it was a mad scramble to get set up.  Luckily 
> everything that was
> supposed to be plug and play actually played.  One exception 
> was found with
> less than an hour remaining......the east 80m beverage 
> control wire was not
> even connected.  I guess I simply missed it when I moved the 
> controller to a
> different operating position but that did not seem to make 
> much of a difference
> anyway.
> Only connected one 10m antenna which never was used except to 
> try to keep a
> last minute sked.  Seems our sked contact quit before we got 
> there at 0559z so
> we did not even get our own state mult on that band.
> I really cracked myself up at one point.  Think I was 
> operating on 80 when a
> station gave me the name.......I thought he said "Humper".  I 
> really thought
> that was going to be a classic until he spelled it out to me (Hunter).
> 20m shut down rather quickly and seemed to be pretty noisy 
> for us.  40m seemed
> to go long early.  80m and 160m really sounded good for the 
> most part.  A
> little tweaking on the 80 and 160 receive antennas made it 
> even better.
> This was our best score ever.  We had a good time.  For me 
> personally, it was a
> welcome break from all the issues I have been dealing with 
> for the last couple
> of months.  The fact that we had a lot of rain had a lot to 
> do with our
> decision to go ahead and operate this one.  Rain basically 
> washed out plan for
> what I really needed to be doing on this day but allowed us 
> to play radio for a
> few hours.
> As always, thanks for the q's and the moves.
> 
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