[NCC] Fwd: NAQP CW K8MR Single Op QRP

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

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Sent: Sun, Aug 4, 2013 9:20 am
Subject: NAQP CW K8MR Single Op QRP

                    North American QSO Party, CW - August

Call: K8MR
Operator(s): K8MR
Station: K8MR

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: NJ
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:
   80:   18    10
   40:   66    22
   20:   51    26
   15:    9     6
   10:
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Total:  144    64  Total Score = 9,216

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Team: MRRC/NCC Hawks

Comments:

I'm spending a few weeks in Montclair, NJ, helping take care of my new 
12 week
old granddog. I brought radios and wires to play with while here, but I 
did not
plan to do this one QRP. I had got a support line up 50 feet in a tree 
in the
back yard, with a coax fed dipole, for the Thursday NS Ladder, which 
seemed to
work OK with the IC-746 at 100 watts. I then took the antenna down to 
keep
things clear for the men working on a new patio, but left the string in 
the
tree. When I went out to erect the antennas on Saturday afternoon after 
the
workmen left for the day, no sting in the tree, or on the ground. I 
guess they
though it was something of theirs that needed cleaned up.

I tried to shoot another line over the tree, but no luck. A couple of 
shots
with the EZ-Hang went over beautifully, but would not come down to the 
ground.
So I finally gave up and got out the KX3 and used its tune-anything 
tuner to
feed a 42 ft wire that I was able to get up in the same tree, with two 
radials
16 and 33 feet for a ground.

To keep things simple while also socializing with guests my daughter 
had over
for the afternoon, I just logged on paper and sent by hand. No dupe 
sheet. A
true old school contest.

Things seemed to work OK for QRP. There is a 300 ft ridge half a mile 
west of
here, so the west coast was challenging. OTOH F6HKA on 15 and 20, and 
LA3O on
20, were pretty loud. A good sign for whatever I might do this weekend 
in the
WAEDC.

As always, good to get on and make some QSOs, and in this case provide a
challenge in weak signal copying skills.


73,

Jim  K8MR


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