[3830] NAQP SSB VE3MGY Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - January

Call: VE3MGY
Operator(s): VE3MGY
Station: VE3MGY

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Ontario
Operating Time (hrs): ~9

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   84    33
   80:  179    41
   40:  143    36
   20:  200    46
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:  606   156  Total Score = 94,536

Club: Contest Club Ontario

Team: 

Comments:

I was just fooling around with some new antennas I put up Saturday morning so I
had no intention of being serious but I did want to get on and have some fun
while testing out the new antennas. I ended up being on alot longer than I had
planned just because the rate meter never dropped below 50/hr and I hit 150/hr
on 20/40/80/ and even 160M more than a few times so I just couldn't QRT.

I decided to impose three simple rules on myself that would insure that I was
only operating on the bands that the new antennas were designed and "tweaked"
for ( thank you EZNEC ). 

Rule #1 Absolutely no S&P allowed at all - regardless of the band. ( Just to
see how much attention I could draw ) 

Rule #2 Absolutely no 10M or 15M QSO's.

Rule #3 Operate on 20/40/80 and 160M only.

So with those handicaps in mind I started calling CQ and am very happy with the
antennas and how well they performed. I found 80 and 160 to be somewhat noisey
and I am not used to those QRN levels(!!) on SSB. You get absolutely spoiled
working CW with 100hz BW on the low bands.... 

Thanks to all that called in and a special thanks to those stations that took
the time to answer my requests for real world s-meter signal reports!! 

See you in the CQ160 

73,
Brian
VE3MGY


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