[3830] NAQP RTTY KE0HQZ Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, RTTY - July

Call: KE0HQZ
Operator(s): KE0HQZ
Station: KE0HQZ

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   80:   19    11
   40:  212    42
   20:  189    39
   15:   61    20
   10:   64    20
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Total:  545   132  Total Score = 71,940

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Comments:

Had a great time this weekend in the contest. Ran this one from the home QTH in
Yankton, and boy can you tell the difference between a super station and a dinky
home setup. 
Was pleasantly surprised to see 10 and 15 open and managed to hop on those and
get a good number of contacts (125 combined). Then I got sleepy and took a nap
around 5 hours in. Looking back, I probably should have found other ways to stay
awake as I probably could have made more QSOs on 15 or 10.
All in all, I was very pleased with the results. The IC7610 worked flawlessly.
Things to change for next time: Build a receive antenna for 80m. 59+30 noise
makes the band useless. Build another 40m antenna. Mine is orientated E/W, so
would be nice to get one N/S for more side lobes to the coasts. Finally (for
now) I need to make sure I can work the first 10 hours and not take any time off
during it. The last two hours were beyond slow. 
73 and see you all in the next one!
de KE0HQZ Nick


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