[3830] NAQP CW K3KU Single Op LP

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                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU

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

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   91    24
   80:  207    41
   40:   72    31
   20:   47    19
   15:   11     8
   10:    1     1
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Total:  429   124  Total Score = 53,196

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Team: PVRC Tres

Comments:

Unexpected family obligations took out about 90 minutes of planned my operating
time.  QRV at 2355Z Saturday night.  Nice to find a few QSOs still available on
15M.  Took a 50 minute family break around 0030Z

Lots of Freds and Rods and Bruces.  A couple of Ellens and only one other LN,
which how she really signed on CW.  There might have been some other memorial
names, too; a few names seemed more prevalent than usual.

40M was noisy for much of the night.  All the low bands were plagued by QSB --
rapid fades (and sometimes a burst of QRN) would wipe out a single letter.  One
station responding to my CQ had the last letter fade out four times; everything
fine up to the last letter, then it drops to nothing.

Operator performance was down.  I messed up everything from turning the big knob
to typing (a constant weakness) to sending with the paddles to using N1MM+. 
With two hours left I was exhausted and felt like quitting.  I'll need a lot of
introspection to figure out why I felt like that and why I kept going.  This one
was five hours of the most stressful fun I've ever had.

So why am I going to it on SSB this coming weekend?


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