[3830] NAQP RTTY K7IA Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - July

Call: K7IA
Operator(s): K7IA
Station: K7IA

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NM
Operating Time (hrs): 9:56

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   26    14
   40:  188    47
   20:  201    50
   15:   23    15
   10:    3     2
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Total:  441   128  Total Score = 56,448

Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Team: 

Comments:

It's a humbling experience indeed to not "feel" loud for the first three hours
of a 10 hour (single op) event, but such was the case on 20-10 meters
yesterday.  I even went outside and eyeballed the antennas, regardless of what
the LP-100A was telling me.  20m ultimately improved a bit, but despite
numerous QSYs back to 15, most of the signals heard there were ESP.  There was
a lot of QSB on 20, which slowed things down--many thanks to the guys who hung
around to give their exchanges after the sigs came back up (quite a few moved
on, though).  

With ongoing threats of thunderstorms here in NM, my only strategy was to keep
working continuously as long as Erin heard no thunder.  I was lucky--the thick
dark clouds were silent, keeping the two hour required break in the bank
account.

I found myself looking forward to darkness and low band activity and even began
working 40m long before the greyline was even a hint.  I wasn't the only one to
do that, judging from the activity, but only the strong eastern stations could
copy my New Mexico signals.  That's when I took a 1.5 hour break for supper and
a re-run of Clint Eastwood's "Rawhide."

As darkness approached, 40m became crowded, and both S&P and Running were
fruitful.  Quick checks of 80 found lots of summer QRN and a few signals in
neighboring states.  Later, near quitting time, running on 80 produced more
distant Qs, but the rate was paltry.  In between hops between 40 and 80, I
cruised 20 and picked up a handful and two mults:  KH6 and KL7.

Despite early discouragement, I managed to just beat last year's Q-count (by
2), but thanks to the mults, the score is considerably better.  

Thanks to all for their patience with band conditions and for digging out a lot
of QSOs that might have been skipped in a "brute force" high power event.  I'm
off to read the Archives to verify that condx put all of us into the same boat
this time...

73, dan


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