[3830] NAQP CW N5UM Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: N5UM
Operator(s): N5UM
Station: N5UM

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OK
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   37    21
   80:  213    44
   40:  283    46
   20:  305    47
   15:  138    35
   10:   20    12
-------------------
Total:  996   205  Total Score = 204,180

Club: DFW Contest Group

Team: DFWCG Endurance

Comments:

Full-on effort this time and had a blast!  10 hours continuous in the chair.   
This is an all-time record score for N5UM single op at home.   Conditions were
awesome on all bands.   Had very nice sustained runs on 20, 40, and 80 (see
info below).    10 and 160 were good for some extra mults.   Everything worked
flawlessly.   The 102 ft doublet was redone and rehung after the old one broke
and came down in the ice storm back in November.  I managed to get one end of
the new one away from the tree on one side.  It seems to work much better but
not sure if it was because of the re-do. All 20 and 80 meter Qs were on the
doublet.  It works OK on 40 as well, but I made most of the 40 meter Qs on the
vertical.  For some reason, on 15 and 10, the doublet picks up a lot of noise,
so all 15 and 10 meter Qs were on the Hustler vertical. 

I'm glad I was able to put up a good score for the DFWCG.   I used the name
"Rich" in this contest in memory of KL7RA.  I never got to meet him
personally, but worked him in many contests over the years.    
   

Rig:  Icom IC-7410  100W
Antennas:  Hustler 6BTV ground mounted with 32 radials
           102 ft doublet up 40 ft fed with 450 ohm line all the way to 
               balun in tuner
           160 meter inverted L  - vertical portion 35ft
           Pixel Sat Mag loop for receive
Antenna Tuner:  Dentron  MT-2000A
Software:  N1MM+ 

N5UM Runs >10 QSOs:

2016-01-09 1801 - 1815Z,   21037 kHz, 20 Qs, 87.5/hr N5UM
2016-01-09 1907 - 1942Z,   21061 kHz, 58 Qs, 102.1/hr N5UM
2016-01-09 2009 - 2227Z,   14049 kHz, 290 Qs, 126.7/hr N5UM
2016-01-09 2241 - 2250Z,    7041 kHz, 20 Qs, 139.5/hr N5UM
2016-01-09 2305 - 0057Z,    7022 kHz, 255 Qs, 136.9/hr N5UM
2016-01-10 0107 - 0117Z,    3527 kHz, 23 Qs, 135.1/hr N5UM
2016-01-10 0230 - 0320Z,    3521 kHz, 95 Qs, 113.7/hr N5UM
2016-01-10 0334Z - 0359,    3521 kHz, 45 Qs, 109.0/hr

73, Al N5UM


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