[3830] NAQP CW VE6TL Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: VE6TL
Operator(s): VE6TL
Station: VE6TL

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   15    10
   80:  100    35
   40:  221    48
   20:  192    43
   15:  155    39
   10:  235    39
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Total:  918   214  Total Score = 196,452

Club: 

Team: Aurora Busters

Comments:

Nice to have 10m back!  Lots of good runs on all bands except 160m. I was
surprised I could run on 80m with a 40ft shunt-fed tower and 100W but it was a
lot of fun.  On 15m and 20m, I alternated between my SE pointing yagi at 40' and
my BigIR vertical so that I wouldn't have to rotate the beam towards the west or
southwest.  It seemed to work quite well.  

The big disappointment was I hardly worked Canadian stations (a dozen VE3 and a
dozen VE7 was 95% of it), with only a single VE6 entry in the log - and that was
in the last hour on 160m (VE6RCN).  This was probably because I ran almost the
whole time, being unassisted.  I enjoyed the rates while they lasted but could
see the Bz turning negative and knew the end would be a grind.  I finished an
hour before the official contest end, having worked my 10 hours.

This was my first NAQP CW in 6 years and I want to thank Bud, VA7ST, for
inviting me to be on the Aurora Busters team.  

Jerry VE6TL


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