[3830] IOTA W4O Multi-Op LP

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                    IOTA Contest

Call: W4O
Operator(s): N4YDU, N4PY
Station: W4O

Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: Hatteras, NC
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  CW Mults  Ph Qs  Ph Mults
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   80:   42       12       0       0
   40:  248       46      86      23
   20:  334       39      73      19
   15:   60       12      16       2
   10:    3        2       2       0
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Total:  687      111     187      44  Total Score = 803,520

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Back in April my parents brought up the idea of a family vacataion to AVON, NC
(Hatteras Island). I thought it would be great to do this the same week as the
IOTA contest. It was fun signing as W4O the week before the contest and during
the contest. The pile-ups were a lot of fun! The original plan was to operate
in the Multi-OP class and have my father (N4PY) man the mult station while I
grind it out from the run station. Problems with the mult station led to
basically bailing on that idea (five qsos made from the mult station). I stuck
it out on the run station as originally planned and had fun with an occassional
word of encouragement from pop and the help of the DX cluster. I didn't come out
of the radio room for the entire period and operated for 18 hours straight to
start the contest before taking a 4 hour nap to get up for the last two hours.
It was fun working the many other NA067 stations. I had hoped to get down to
Ocracoke and have an 807 with WB8YJF/4 but the wait to get on the ferry was too
long for my taste.

Conditions were slugish throughout the day, but livened up as usual in the
later afternoon. It was nice to work a handful of Europeans on 15 and a few
other good DX stations. In addition, 20 and 40 were super and this was the most
production I've ever got out of 80 in this contest. The 80M antenna worked
surprisingly well - I simply tuned half of the open wire feed line with the
external antenna tuner.

Congrats to the N4A Group, AA4XX Group N4I Group and WB8YJF/4 for keeping the
NA67 loud during the test. 

We had hoped to reach 1K QSOs, but fell short with 864 total. NA activity
continues to grow in this contest. There were many NA Islands active.

Rig: IC 756 Pro, 56' inverted vee fed with ladder line at 45 feet, G%RV Jr at
37 feet, butternut vertical.

73,

Nate/N4YDU


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