[3830] NAQP SSB N8II Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - August

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

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 2.6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    0      
   80:  142    29
   40:   53    22
   20:   83    24
   15:    0      
   10:    0      
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Total:  279    76  Total Score = 21,204

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: 

Comments:

It was great to hear all of the guys who were Bob and Dude one last time to
honor our beloved PVRC member Bob Morris, W4MYA/W4ML(club). He was truly special
and a great operator to boot with only wires for quite a few years after
building up a very competitive contest station which was active for years before
that. He Elmered many new hams and contesters and will be missed by so many.
Hope you can still "Run 'em, Dude!".

There was a very severe storm with tree damage about centered around my QTH at
20Z Friday. Truly massive amounts of tree debris some ending up about 200 ft
from the tree of origin were scattered all over the ground. Many branches and
branch tips were scattered across property lines. No trees fell here, but
several large branches were on the ground and hanging limp from trees including
oaks. The neighbor across the street lost large top portions (up to 30 ft) of 3
out of 4 pine trees. A maple branch hangs down to her roof. My top heavy fruit
bearing "ornamental??" peach tree was pushed over to about 45 degrees;
the tree man tried to pull it back, but it was hopelessly tilted and had to go.
This was the worst storm in 31 years at this QTH. The clean up is done today,
Sunday, thanks to help from the aborist, but I had very little energy left for
the NAQP.
Somehow, inexplicably, miraculously, all antennas were unscathed! 

It was just as well, far worse conditions than 2 weeks ago in the NAQP CW thanks
to almost no sporadic E, low SFI, and high QRN from storms even on 20M. To boot,
another storm (low winds) passed through around 20Z Saturday and that would have
forced at least 45 minutes off the air with QRN misery lasting longer. So this
Dude did get on to make a few Q's. Activity was noticeably low/poor especially
compared to the CW end. I had clear frequencies in good parts of the band on 20
and never had a fast rate for more than about 5 minutes. The skip zone was very
long on 40 in the 21 and 23Z hours. 75 was OK close in, but range was very
limited and QRN high, some high rate; then it dried up.

Thanks for the calls/Q's and 73 from one of many Dudes.


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