[3830] NCQP N8II SO Mixed LP

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                    North Carolina QSO Party

Call: N8II
Operator(s): N8II
Station: N8II

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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   80:   29     39       
   40:   88    101       
   20:   55     25       
   15:    8      1       
   10:    1      0       
    6:                   
    2:                   
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Total:  181    166      0  Mults = 88  Total Score = 77,300

Club: 

Comments:

Two years ago, the NCQP seemed to be dying on the vine, I only made 197 QSO's,
and only one was above 40 meters! This year, there were lots of causal ops
making it possible to break 100 Q's on 40 phone and 20 even opened well for
about 3-1/2 hours, what great luck (after the disturbances from Wed-Sat.) and
what a Renaissance!
Late morning, it seemed like it might be a very long day, I could tell the
majority of the activity was on 20 and everyone was skipping over here near DC.
And running on 40 phone proved unproductive. Then just after noon stations on
the far edges of NC started coming thru on 20 and I had a good run on 40 phone
just before then also. After a 15 minute lunch break, I heard KM1C in Pamlico
loud on 20 phone and eventually for a brief 20 minutes or so the whole state
was loud on 20. Despite trying to run up there. results were poor, but I kept
adding  CW and phone Q's on 20 and even a few on 15 backscatter. Thanks to a
move by me, W4DW was the only station worked on 10 M and the only one on all 5
bands. So, I went to 40 not expecting much and had a great phone run of 25
stations and another good one not long after. Numbers on 75 and 80 were not
quite up to 2 years ago despite good conditions, but even the mobiles were good
copy.

Many thanks to all of the mobiles for really putting on a show especially
compared to 2 years ago when W4MY was nearly a lone mobile wolf. I worked Bert,
N4CW, Paul, AA4XX, Jeff, NY4N, N4E, and John, AD8J many times, "well
played!" as the golf commentators say. Also worked was KB4QQJ. There were
some desperate begs for N4CW to work 20. Guys, he would have if he could have;
he had SWR problems with the 20M whip. I only occasionally checked for spots,
and tried when I could to spot the mobiles. I probably missed 3-5 counties that
were workable from here. Breaking the mobile pile ups seemed pretty easy,
thankfully.
My hardest struggle was a fixed station on 20 phone in Watauga despite being S9
here. 

Both 150 point bonuses were earned and all were pretty easy except for Hyde
county. If a county has the privilege of being a bonus, it ought to be on for
most of the party. 

Many thanks for all of the QSO's; working 3-5 QSO's with the same station was
pretty common thanks to the good conditions. Thanks to RARS for organizing a
grear fun party!


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