[3830] TBDC K5OAI Single Op QRP

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Sun Oct 24 09:38:13 PDT 2010


                    Stew Perry Topband Challenge - Warmup

Call: K5OAI
Operator(s): K5OAI
Station: K5OAI

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: San Angelo, TX
Operating Time (hrs): 2.5 hr

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 11  Total Score = 37

Club: 

Comments:

Only 11 QRPp Q's for the Pre Stew Perry from WTX this year.
Rig K3, Power Out 5w, ERP 300mw
Antenna: 15' tall vertical (added 96" whip to top of the)
Hi-Q 6/160 @ 20' with 16 radials ea 13' long

http://picasaweb.google.com/k5oai.sam/RooftopAntennaFarmMay12010#5475929158295537954


Contest begins in daylight @ 1500z on Oct. 23rd, 2010
with big thunderstorms all over much of Texas

http://picasaweb.google.com/k5oai.sam/Sreenshots#5531609625846066114


Hoped to get a start at sunset or around 0001z of the 24th
many stations heard through 9+30 static crashes
but no contacts, by ~0400z I went to bed with ears ringing.

Started again morning of the 24th ~ 9:30z (4am local)
1st big op error......
Surprise,
what I had thought were to be never ending thunderstorms,
had ended sometime during the night....

1st contact @ 9:35z out to 1,032km
Hour and a half (11:01z) and 8 contacts later,
I had worked everyone that could hear me

Then I made my 2nd big op error, breakfast
of course it makes me sleepy,
no new Q's why not take a short power nap,
lets set the clock, say 30m or so should be good
will still have an hour before sunrise to try for more Q's

you guessed it,
3rd op error to come
neither can the op tell time,
nor can he correctly set the clock, sigh

return to the air @ 12:46z,
3 min before sunrise
managed three contacts, with declining distances
1,167km  762km  220km
by 12:51 band has closed for me,
I'm still copying signals, but my QRPp signals are not being heard.

Log:
Rec# Call    Grid R  Date / Time     Km    Points  Grid S
1    WD5R    EM45    10/24  09:35    1,032    3    DM91
2    K8QKY   EM82    10/24  09:47    1,707    4    DM91
3    N7XM    DM09    10/24  09:58    1,859    4    DM91
4    K1LT    EM89    10/24  10:02    1,859    4    DM91
5    N8UM    EM75    10/24  10:24    1,554    4    DM91
6    K9NW    EN71    10/24  10:45    1,812    4    DM91
7    N0FW    EM79    10/24  10:59    1,702    4    DM91
8    NS9I    EN64    10/24  11:01    1,894    4    DM91
9    KO7X    DN71    10/24  12:46    1,167    3    DM91
10   W6RLL   DM51    10/24  12:50      762    2    DM91
11   N5UL    DM82    10/24  12:51      220    1    DM91

Hopefully our thunderstorms will be settled down by the time of
the Stew Perry on 1500Z, Dec 18 to 1500Z, Dec 19.


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