[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): 9

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   25    13
   40:  139    41
   20:  175    42
   15:   16     8
   10:           
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Total:  355   104  Total Score = 36,920

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Team: Aurora Busters

Comments:

2011: SFI = 94   A = 5   K = 1
2010: SFI = 79   A = 1   K = 0

What a washout the high bands turned out to be. And with flux at 94 even. 

Managed to get within 5 Qs of last year, but down 15 mults -- mostly due to a
shortage on 15M, which was simply not in good shape here. Listened often but
never heard a peep on 10M. As AB7R commented, looking forward to Cycle 25. This
one's not working out very well.

80M offered up far fewer Qs than usual, though mults are up by 1 from last year
(still, down from what I hoped for, which was about 20 mults there).

40M offered more Qs than ever before, and 41 mults is right on par with
previous years.

20M was pretty good rate-wise (more Qs than any previous year) but mults were
down slightly.

Hope the rest of the Aurora Busters (VY2SS, VA1CHP, VE7BC and VA7KO) had more
luck than I did. The only teammate I worked was VE7BC on 80M. Heard VA7KO but
couldn't catch up to him.

Took my off-time in a two-hour stretch from 2000z to 2200z. Then had a pretty
wild lightning storm roll through around 0120z and had to take nearly another
hour. So, just 9 hours in the chair.

Great fun -- it always is. Super to see everyone again. Thanks for the
contacts!

-- Bud VA7ST

http://www.orcadxcc.org
http://www3.telus.net/va7st

Year-over-year stats...

      July 2006   July 2007   July 2008   July 2009  July 2010  July 2011
      ---------   ---------   ---------   ---------   --------   --------
 Band QSOs  Sec   QSOs  Sec   QSOs  Sec   QSOs  Sec   QSOs Sec   QSOs Sec
  3.5   65   27     50   12     50   19     39   20    36   12    25   13
    7  110   38    113   41    104   41    120   42   114   42   139   41
   14  115   38    172   44    133   43    160   43   166   47   175   42
   21   74   30     14    6     24   10     38   16    40   17    16    8
   28   54   20      1    1      1    1      0    0     4    1     0    0
Total  418  153    350  104    312  114    357  121   360  119   355  104 
 
Score :  63,954      36,400      35,568      43,197     42,840     36,920


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