[3830] NAQP CW NO3M Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: NO3M
Operator(s): NO3M
Station: NO3M

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: PA
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:  180    41
   80:  238    47
   40:  270    53
   20:  232    46
   15:  123    35
   10:   91    21
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Total: 1134   243  Total Score = 275,562

Club: 

Team: PVRC/Thursday Night Gang

Comments:

Personal best in NAQP; first time over 1K QSOs.  I decided to add a new 10M
EDZ-Lazy-H NE/SW, but it ended up not getting used much over the E/W
EDZ-Lazy-H.  

Finished mitigating a top-hat wire situation on the 160M vertical with 10
minutes to the start.  One by one, the top loading wires (4) are electrically
disconnecting from the top of the vertical (wire pigtails) from the constant
wind movement; there's only one left connected.  Each time one comes free, the
loading coil tap at the base needs adjusted and the wire/guy rope twisted
several times to make the pigtail stick up and away from the vertical
(otherwise it's intermittent).  At that point, the wire then just serves as
nothing more than part of the guying, the wire is still tied to the vertical by
a very short rope at the top.  Eventually it will have to come down, but
lowering and raising a "wet-noodle", 90ft aluminum tubing vertical is something
I don't look forward to (time to start thinking about that base-insulated
tower....)

Lowbands dead quiet here, signals just "popped"; should have put a little more
time in down there.

TU Qs - 73 -Eric NO3M

K3s + wire arrays (10-80M), top-loaded (sort-of) vertical (160M)


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