[3830] WVQP N8II Single OpMixed LP

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                    West Virginia QSO Party - 2019

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

Class: Single OpMixed LP
QTH: WV
Operating Time (hrs): 8.7

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
----------------------------
   80:   17      8       
   40:   47    155       
   20:   83    518       
   15:    0      0       
   10:    0      1       
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Total:  147    682      0  Mults = 90  Total Score = 87,940

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Apologies that more WV stations were not active. The activity level seemed about
the same as last year except no mobiles/rovers. N4RA in HAM was not worked last
year, he was on several hours.

Obviously 20M was the band that kept on giving, an unbelievable number of
non-contestants stopped by to give me a Q! 20 was open to all states except
PA,DE, and MD at some time during the contest and parts of MD and PA are quite
close to me. I worked 49 states, nothing from HI and the band was wide open in
the evening as 2 ZL stations called in with nice signals. During the afternoon
prop to the NW USA/Canada was very limited, but I ended up working 3 in AK, 3 in
SK. I worked VE1-VE7, VE9, and VY2 in Canada. The propagated noise from upper
Midwest storms was bad the entire day on 20, a S7-9 drone all evening. As soon
as prop opened to that area on 40 and 80, they were also very noisy. I gave 80 a
good try several times during the evening with dismal results, nothing worked
that far out. 40 was better, nice activity around 23-24Z with no apparent skip
zone; this provided my best rate with 111 Q's. Late afternoon, northern NY was
as close as I could work on 40. There were 2 big openings to New England, first
as the party started then again around 22Z. Starting 0009Z for about 30 minutes
there was very short skip to the south, many NC/SC and one in SW VA. Sporadic E
into the 8/9/0 call areas was present most of the evening. Late afternoon,
things were pretty slow on all bands, so I chased some mainly EU DX on 20 to
boost the score. I found ZA/Z61DX without any help from the DX cluster. The 02Z
hour (test used to end at 02Z) was my 2nd best with 104 Q's on 20 SSB and
several small pile ups.

Thanks to all for calling me; it was a lot of fun except the S/N ratio was
pretty marginal on many 20M stations (lots of small signals). Many did not
understand the value of enunciation and good audio. Only a few were too weak to
pull through, but 100W was enough on 20 and sometimes on 40.

73, Jeff


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