[3830] NAQP SSB K7RL Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, SSB - January

Call: K7RL
Operator(s): K7RL
Station: K7RL

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   28    19
   80:  250    51
   40:  185    52
   20:  646    48
   15:   42    14
   10:    1     1
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Total: 1152   185  Total Score = 213,120

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Team: 

Comments:

Started off with one of my best hours ever – 243. Wished that would have
continued for all 10 hours! 

A major key to this contest was successfully timing my break around a fading 20m
band to a peaking 40m band, In hindsight, I didn’t get it right.

After returning from a two-hour break, my goal was to run on 40m in the early
evening before it faded in oblivion. That worked for about an hour, but once
darkness fell, I ran into a propagational brick wall. 40m quickly fell into the
dumpster and emptied out with only a few FL and TX stations left standing.
Unlike last weekend on CW, 40m never bounced back in the evening, and actually
got worse.

My only option was to try and run on 80m with the band still a couple of hours
from peaking, while working stations S&P on the second radio. It was a low
band limbo rate killer, and sucked the air out of any hope for meeting my
goals.
  
Meanwhile, with a strong east coast advantage on the low bands, maximizing high
band activity was another key. Prior to the contest, 15m seemed deader than a
door nail, but my first hour was so good on 20m, I didn’t have time to check
15m until the second hour. Surprisingly, spotlight propagation featured W3, W4,
and W8 with excellent signals. There wasn’t a lot of volume, but I may have
missed the best part during that first hour.

Just like the CW weekend, my stateside struggles continue on 160m. Despite S9
signals from guys back east, it was difficult to work them. Tuning around, I
could hear LY1PM and OK2EQ calling CQ on CW with great signals, so maybe the
band was long. Oddly, guys in OH and MI seemed to have no trouble hearing me. 

Despite the low band challenges, it was a fun contest. Thanks to all for the Qs
and a fun Saturday on the radio.

73, Mitch, K7RL


-------------- Q S O   R a t e   S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour     160     80     40     20     15     10    Rate Total    Pct
--------------------------------------------------------------------
1800       0      0      0    242      1      0    243    243   21.1
1900       0      0      0    144     41      0    185    428   37.2
2000       0      0      5    135      0      1    141    569   49.4
2100       0      0      6    108      0      0    114    683   59.3
2200       0      0      0     17      0      0     17    700   60.8
2300       0      0      0      0      0      0      0    700   60.8
0000       0      2     95      0      0      0     97    797   69.2
0100       0     24     68      0      0      0     92    889   77.2
0200       1     55      6      0      0      0     62    951   82.6
0300       5     71      4      0      0      0     80   1031   89.5
0400      11     60      1      0      0      0     72   1103   95.7
0500      11     38      0      0      0      0     49   1152  100.0
------------------------------------------------------
Total     28    250    185    646     42      1   1152

Gross QSOs=1159        Dupes=7        Net QSOs=1152

Unique callsigns worked = 890

The best 60 minute rate was 243/hour from 1800 to 1859
The best 30 minute rate was 266/hour from 1801 to 1830
The best 10 minute rate was 294/hour from 1800 to 1809


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