[3830] CQWW VHF N1PRW SOAB QRP

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Call: N1PRW
Operator(s): N1PRW
Station: N1PRW

Class: SOAB QRP
QTH: EMA
Operating Time (hrs): 3

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  11     5
    2:   1     1
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Total:  12     6  Total Score = 57

Club: 

Comments:

Portable QRP operation from Andover, Mass. Weather was muggy and 88F.

Station Equipment:
- Yaesu FT-817ND
- Cushcraft A148-3S Yagi
- 1/2 wavelength 6m dipole, homemade

Nightmare contest. Saturday afternoon I packed up my station, hiked up the
local hilltop, and set up my radio and antennas. This is when I noticed that
I'd left my battery cable at home. 

It would have taken too long to break down, hike out, and come back with the
cable, so I decided instead to operate at 1/2 power (2.5W) on the FT-817ND
internal battery. I had two fully-charged NiMH packs worth a couple of hours of
operating.

As my second pack was weakening a 6m enhancement opened up wide with paths from
here down to everywhere from the Carolinas to Arkansas. I made a 900 mi Q with
Georgia using 2.5 watts before the internal battery went flat.

By the time I got home at dark the enhancement was fading away.

73, Alexander N1PRW


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