[3830] NAQP CW WB0TEV Single Op Assisted LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: WB0TEV
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: WB0TEV

Class: Single Op Assisted LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 9:24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   47    46
   80:   76    61
   40:   62    60
   20:   58    57
   15:   41    40
   10:   15    13
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Total:  299   277  Total Score = 82,823

Club: DFW Contest Group

Team: DFW Trinity

Comments:

What's that you say?  There is now an assisted category for this years NAQP?
OK.  In CW contests I'm almost exclusively a search and pounce guy given my
non-competition grade CW skills and I get a rush from tracking down multipliers,
so....

Fire up N1MM+, open the Available Mults and Qs window and select mults only.
In the Telnet window, on the filters tab set the spot time out to just 3 minutes
(don't waste time chasing stale spots).  At the starting bell, click on the Dir
column to sort spots by Azimuth.  

Then its just pick em off and work those in the beams favored direction, then
rotate the antenna about 30 degrees and work next batch in the new direction.
This minimizes whipping the beam heading all over the place. When crossing zero
degree azimuth, click Dir again to reverse the direction of the sort function. 


Prosecuted 20/15/10 that way for the first 4 hours with a brief foray to 40m in
the third hour to pick off some stuff that might be tougher after sundown.  

>From 2200-0100 concentrated mainly on 40m to get stuff before the band went
long.  I noticed that the 80m column on the mult window suddenly lit up right at
0000 UTC suggesting that's when a lot of folks in the east made the move there,
but I didn't seriously get after 80m until the 0100 hour after my supper break.
The 0200 hour was half 80m and half 160m with the first 160M Q being with my old
college buddy WT9U around 0204.  
160m started off weak but got better as the night deepened, eventually yielding
46 mults.  Total time on was 9h24m.

With a few exceptions the number of mults on each band was ever so slightly
greater than the number of QSO's as would be expected from this sort of
operating paradigm.  Mult count by band was:
160: 46 (my two reversible beverages were priceless here)
80:  61 (ditto)
40:  60
20:  57
15:  40
10:  13

As in ARRL RTTY I failed to make WAS thanks to North Dakota.  Never even saw one
spotted, but apparently there was at least one searching and pouncing based on
some of the stats I've seen in the reports of others. In addition to ND, the
usual rare Canadian NT, NU and YT were absent.  I barely heard VY2LI a few times
on 40 but never well enough to try and bag PE. Was able to work almost
everything else on multiple bands, singletons were AK on 15, and NL on 20.  

TS590SG, Mosley PRO-67B at 63 feet (40/20/15/10, albeit flaky on 40), homebrew
40m vertical, 80m inverted Vee and shunt fed tower for 160.  Rx antennas are
pair of reversible beverages, NE/SW at 600 feet and NW/SE and 720 feet. 

See you next weekend in NAQP SSB.


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