[3830] FlQP AA4TI Cnty ExpedMixed LP

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                    Florida QSO Party - 2022

Call: AA4TI
Operator(s): AA4TI
Station: AA4TI

Class: Cnty ExpedMixed LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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   40:   266    46
   20:  1170   310
   15:   264    14
   10:     2     0
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Total:  1702   370  CW Mults = 73  Ph Mults = 39  Total Score = 845,376

Club: Florida Contest Group

Comments:

Lots of interesting challenges this year.  Operation from my first county line
on Saturday was fair, but not great.  The second county line was going quite
well until I had to stop in the middle of a run to anchor my antenna when the
wind picked up to over 25mph.  Then, there was another interruption when
overhead lightning dictated that I disconnect the antenna and hunker down while
it stormed all around me.  I didn't get home from the Saturday operations until
after 12:30am.  Then, I had to get up early for the Sunday operations.  I got to
my first county line on Sunday morning, got set up and waited for the party to
resume at 10am...Yep, I said 10am.  Apparently, somewhere in my operating plan I
had a senior moment and decided to change the start time.  So, right off the bat
on Sunday I was two hours late getting out of the gate.  Since I was unassisted,
I did not see any spots for FQP stations.  If I had been assisted, I would
likely have noticed all the spots and band map and figured out the error in my
ways.  My first county line on Sunday was a struggle for contacts.  I was
located in a field next to a water melon processing facility and bees/lovebugs
were thick.  Sweating like crazy in the hot sun/vehicle attracts bees, and after
several gentle swipes to scare off the bees, one of them found success on my
left leg and stung me.  This created a major issue since many of you know that I
use my left foot to send CW.  On the plus side, the owner of the water melon
facility told me to help myself to a few melons.  My second county line
operation went much better until my radio decided to refuse to operate correctly
on 15M SSB.  I rebooted everything a couple times, but for some reason, the
radio would lock up in TX as soon as I said the first syllable into the mic. 
I'm hoping that a reboot to factory defaults will fix the issue.  Finally, at
6PM, I was thinking I still had two more hours of contest because of my 10am
start.  I switched over to SSB and after quite a few CQ's with only a few
contacts, a Wisconsin station advised me that the contest was over...Duh.  So, I
dutifully scrubbed the last few contacts from my log, kicked myself in the butt
for being careless and called it a day.  All in all, it was exhausting, but
still a great SQP.


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