[3830] NAQP RTTY NC6K Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - July

Call: NC6K
Operator(s): NC6K
Station: NC6K

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: SDG
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
   80:   38    11
   40:  138    43
   20:  170    40
   15:    6     3
   10:    0     0
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Total:  352    97  Total Score = 34,144

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Team: SCCC #2

Comments:

This was one of the hardest contests I've ever done. Conditions were awful - 15
Meters was non-existent (again), so the first 7 or 8 hours were a one band
affair. I tried to get on 40 M early (1700 local time), but while I could hear a
bunch of Midwest and East Coast stations, they couldn't hear me.

The combination of the bottom of the solar cycle, low power, RTTY and competing
with a VHF contest also seemed to drive participation down. Many of the stations
I normally work weren't on (or at least I didn't hear them).

Trying to do SO2R in these conditions with a SteppIR 3-element and a dipole is
definitely not optimal. I did run interleaved CQs for the last three hours and
was able to get into a rhythm where I was between 60 and 100 QSOs/hour, which
all things considered, seemed like a victory.

I guess it can only get better from here...

73 de NC6K


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