[3830] NAQP SSB KT8K Single Op QRP

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North American QSO Party, SSB - January

Call: KT8K
Operator(s): KT8K
Station: KT8K

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: EN82 SE Michigan
Operating Time (hrs): 1:09

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:   0      0
   80:   9      7
   40:   2      2
   20:   5      3
   15:   0      0
   10:   0      0
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Total:  16     12  Total Score = 192

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Team: 

Comments:

A week ago I was excited and intending to put in a full effort here, but ...
conditions were not the same at all.  I had a very tough time being heard and
at least one of my antennas wasn't working right, so I spent an hour debugging
the connections and found I had accidentally connected the autotuner backwards.
 No wonder the little lights weren't doing their usual stuff!  After that,
conditions were still not good, and I went upstairs and ended up never getting
back.

I hope the conditions improved and expect everybody had a good time, as I did
when things were working well.  Still, I get discouraged by only being heard by
one out of every 8 or 10 stations I call.  I have a lot of experience in that
environment, and maximizing QRP score in poor condx, but I just got
discouraged.  Before the contest I did add a couple of more radials to the
multiband wire vertical, but it will take more time and a bit of testing to see
if it is coming into its own yet.

I expect to be in the ARRL Int. DX tests, and hope to put you all in my log
then.  73 and thanks for pulling me out of the noise (all 16 of you who heard
me.  Best reception to all - Tim

equipment: 
- old Tentec Orion running 5 Watts 
- MFJ Grandmaster memory keyer w. Bencher BY-1 paddle 
- WGA TR2000 headset 

Antennas: 
- 10/15/20m trap dipole swinging near-vertically in the trees, center at 30
feet, fed with Wireman RG8x 
- 20/40/80m triple wire dipole horizontal at 30 feet, fed w. RG8x 
- 40/80m wire vertical fed at 12 feet, 2 elevated radials per band (plus 1 old
43' radial), fed with 300 Ohm TV twin lead by an LDG Z-11 autotuner 

Thanks for enjoying my ham radio (and other) songs: 
"I Want a Big Tower" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWZjzrzgwA 
"If You Ain't Runnin', You Ain't Winnin'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNWZjzrzgwA


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