[3830] NAQP RTTY VA7ST Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - July

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   36    12
   40:  114    42
   20:  166    47
   15:   40    17
   10:    4     1
-------------------
Total:  360   119  Total Score = 42,840

Club: British Columbia DX Club

Team: Aurora Busters

Comments:

SFI = 79   A = 1   K = 0

Bands should have been better than they were, but these days there seems to be
no relief. 

Made a few Qs on 10M, all W6. This is the fourth July for 10M to be a virtual
no-show.

15M  was weak with bad QSB and not a lot of activity. 20M didn't seem very good
at all.

Took my break in a 2-hour stint from 1 to 3 p.m. local, saving evening hours
for the lower bands. Lots of activity on 40M but one-way propagation until
nearly dark (9 p.m.) out here.

I think my 80M vertical array is dead. 36 Qs there, with only 12 mults. Most of
the stations heard were on the west coast. Had hoped to make some hay on 80M
this time, but ended up with 8 fewer mults that last July. Looks like a lot of
us found 80M less than productive.

Still, glad I got on for the whole 10 hours this time. Thanks for the contacts
and all the repeats through the debilitating local BC Hydro power line noise on
20M and up (now in year 6 without a fix).

-- Bud VA7ST

Year-over-year stats...

          July 2006   July 2007   July 2008    July 2009   July 2010
         ----------   ----------   ---------   ---------   ---------
  Band   QSOs   Sec   QSOs   Sec   QSOs  Sec   QSOs  Sec   QSOs  Sec
   3.5     65    27     50    12     50   19     39   20    36    12
     7    110    38    113    41    104   41    120   42   114    42
    14    115    38    172    44    133   43    160   43   166    47
    21     74    30     14     6     24   10     38   16    40    17
    28     54    20      1     1      1    1      0    0     4     1
 Total    418   153    350   104    312  114    357  121   360   119 
 
Score :      63,954       36,400      35,568      43,197      42,840


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