[3830] NAQP CW WI9WI Single Op LP

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North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: WI9WI
Operator(s): WI9WI
Station: WI9WI

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Winter, WI
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   56    29
   80:  101    72
   40:  174    47
   20:  158    41
   15:   44     8
   10:    0     0
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Total:  533   157  Total Score = 83,681

Club: Society of Midwest Contesters

Team: SMC 1100

Comments:

This score goes to SMC as part of the SMC/NCCC/PVRC challange. I operated from
the North Woods of Wisconsin in MWA territory, my other club. I used the name
Tod in honor of K1TO, Mr NCJ, which seemed appropriate since NCJ is the sponsor
of this contest. We left Madison Friday afternoon and got to the cabin about
8PM. The outside temp was -6F, and it wasn't much warmer inside, about +10F.
After about 3 hours the electric heaters and the wood burner had gotten it up
to about 50 so we went to bed. It was about 40 in the bedroom and I didn't
sleep very well until almost sunrise. I set up the radio after we got there and
amused myself by watching JT65 on 160 meters before bedtime. I decoded quite a
few eastern Europeans at their sunrise. Amazing! I was feeling punky Saturday
AM and never set up the second radio. I probably should have done this. I
wasted most of the first hour on 15 trying to squeeze a few mults out of it.
The only backscatter mult I got was K1GU in TN. Ninety percent of the QSOs were
CA/AZ/OR. I watched 10 and threw out a few CQs intermittently, but never heard a
thing. The rest of the bands were very good. Very quiet with the exception of
intermittent lightning crashes from the storm south of us, and good activity. I
ran out of gas too early and packed it in with an hour left.

Gear: K3, P3, Writelog. C-19 at 50 ft, dipole at 45 ft for 40/80, very short
vertical for 160. 3 short beverages. It was so quiet I hardly needed the
beverages at all except for a handful of QSOs.

Thanks for all the Qs.

73 Jim WI9WI


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