[3830] 7QP K3FIV SOMixed LP

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                    7th Call Area QSO Party

Call: K3FIV
Operator(s): K3FIV
Station: K3FIV

Class: SOMixed LP
QTH: CA CM88eu
Operating Time (hrs): 11

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
  160:    2              
   80:   30     29       
   40:   39     58       
   20:   66     41      2
   15:                   
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
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Total:  137    128      2  Mults = 88  Total Score = 59,224

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

Rig: Flex-3000, 100W, Carolina Windom @ 35 feet on all bands, N1MM
QTH: CA coast, 120 miles N of SF - not much RF noise, but there is QRM from
barking sea lions...

This was a fun contest.  It seemed not as hectic as the big contests, but there
was still a lot of activity.  My goal was just to see what you can do with 100
watts and a dipole.

I didn't expect much during the long daylight hours, since 7-land is usually
too close for good signals on 20, and with the sunspots back worldwide QRM
usually swamps my weak signal.  But I guess long propagation on 20 was
unusually poor, with the result that lots of 7-land stations were coming
through but little else.  Nice for 7QP from here!  

It's nice to have a contest with a lot of freedom - work whatever band(s) you
want, with voice, CW, or digital modes.  I suspect that helps a lot in the
quality of the contest experience by simply making each band/mode less crowded.
 I ran when there weren't any more unworked 7-stations, and never had a problem
finding a frequency or holding it, which is very unusual for an LP/wire
station.  

Never found anyone on 15 or 10, but I did find a few RTTY stations - wish there
was more digital activity.  I had a bit of trouble with switching modes - every
time I went from RTTY back to SSB, for some reason my mike gain was set way way
down, so nobody could hear me.  Have to figure out why that happens, some macro
or config setting somewhere I imagine.

On 20 I did all S&P, but managed to make some nice runs on 80/40 where my
antenna is a bit more competitive.  There seemed to be quite a few 7-land
stations that were only S&Ping and were rare counties.  

All in all, a nice contest - long enough to have fun, but not so long to
require a long recovery from BIC syndrome.

CU in California QSO Party from MENDocino County!

73,
/Jack de K3FIV


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