[3830] KsQP W0W(K0PY) Single Op LP

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                    Kansas QSO Party

Call: W0W
Operator(s): K0PY
Station: W0W

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Mobile
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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   80:                   
   40:                   
   20:                   
   15:                   
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
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Total:  261     0       0  Mults = 41  Total Score = 31,488

Club: 

Comments:

This year was challenging to say the least, but I did not have vehicle problems
like last year. :0)

I had a PC with a good battery this time mobile, but I could not make it send
the CW correctly. So I sent the whole contest by hand.
 
So I did all the sending by hand and wrote them down as the contacts came in.
Then after the run I hand typed them into my PC with the clock set back about
10 minutes. So I asked the contest loggers to go easy on my times. :0)
 
Also this year I noticed an intermittent power problem the first day in the AM.
That was a first for this rig and antenna setup as I have operated quite a bit
of mobile CW, guess it was my lucky day. 

While sending on Saturday the power would drop to 30 Watts and then back to 100
Watts. I stopped on the road and dissambled the screwdriver antenna and cleaned
up connections and all I could think of. The setup just refused to work on 40M
so after that I pretty much just stayed on 20M.

Sunday AM before the contest resumed I put on new grounds and more. Sunday it
was a little better, but it still sometimes had a power loss.

All in all we had a good time handing out the county's on CW, and enjoyed the
KS scenery out east because it has been a while since we have been out there.

The KS QSO party was loads of fun, and its extra nice useing the 1 by 1 call. I
only forgot once or twice and sent K0 then corrected to W0W.

Thanks for the contacts and hope to catch you next year.

73, Mike K0PY/W0W


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