[3830] 7QP N7SMI Cnty Exped SO HP

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                    7th Call Area QSO Party

Call: N7SMI
Operator(s): N7SMI
Station: N7SMI

Class: Cnty Exped SO HP
QTH: WYLIN/UTRIC
Operating Time (hrs): 13

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:            2      
   40:   20      12      
   20:         1500     2
   15:    2     172      
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
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Total:   22    1686     2  Mults = 64  Total Score = 220,416

Club: Utah DX Association

Comments:

This year I found a location and set up Friday night in the middle of nowhere
on
the Wyoming/Utah border east of Bear Lake. Photo at
http://smithplanet.com/radio/7qp/2015-7QP.jpg Coyotes howled all night and the
winds howled all day. There's a reason there are no trees in sight.

N1MM+ bugs with my Winkeyer killed my CW hopes and I gave up after an hour of
debugging (most of the morning 40 meter time) with only 22 CW QSOs, and RTTY
was a bust (2 QSOs in 40 minutes of CQing), so I did phone almost exclusively.
I
logged 1710 QSOs total in 13 hours operating time. 1500 of them were on 20
meter SSB! I kept wanting to try other bands, but thing never subsided on 20
meters so I stuck with it until 9:30pm when my voice was shot and I called it
an operation. LOTS of repeats with the long, complex WYLIN/UTRIC exchange -
and
loads of dupes, but there was almost always people answering my CQs.

I ran ~400 watts from a KPA500 into a CrankIR vertical. I was very impressed
with how well it worked. Quite a bit of DX and 48 states (missed CO and KY),
but the low takeoff and little low band time resulted in very few nearby
contacts - only 1 WY station, 1 NV station, and 2 UT stations!

I had a great time giving out two states and two counties. Thank you to the
7QP
organizers and plaque sponsors!


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