[NCC] Fw: NAQP CW W1NN Single Op LP

[Hal Offutt]

I didn't work as many members as I expected, which perhaps shows just how 
much activity there is in this contest.  For example, both W8CAR and I 
operated full time but we only worked once on 160 toward the end of the 
contest!  I missed a couple of other ops entirely.

Don't forget that the log submission deadline is 7 days after the contest. 
Do it now!

And mark your calendars now for January 10, 2015 for the January NAQP CW!!

73, Hal


                    North American QSO Party, CW - August

Call: W1NN
Operator(s): W1NN
Station: W1NN

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 9:31
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   46    24
   80:  182    40
   40:  177    39
   20:  256    49
   15:  151    36
   10:   46    14
-------------------
Total:  858   202  Total Score = 173,316

Club: North Coast Contesters

Team: MRRC/NCC Team 2

Comments:

I got off to a very bad start with keying problems and I decided to take the
first 30 minutes as an off time. But in my rush to get into the contest, I
miscalculated and started operating one minute too soon.  Those 29 minutes 
that
I didn't operate count as operating time, so this brain-dead action probably
cost me about 50 contacts and a couple of mults.  A very stupid mistake.
Despite this, I still ended up with a new personal best score for the August
NAQP, so I am reasonably satisfied.

Other than that, everything went pretty well.  A storm came through just 
before
the contest started and QRN was really bad even on the high bands, but the 
QRN
died down as the storm moved away and by the time I got to 80/160 the QRN 
was
not much of an issue.  Except for 10, the bands were really good.  10 opened 
to
a few places but my antenna there is pretty poor and I probably wasted too 
much
time trying to put those mults in the log.

I pushed hard on the SO2R and I probably had two radios in my ears for about
70% of the contest.  I think it helped a lot but there is still a lot of 
room
to improve my technique.

I think there is one more mult in my log that Win-Test didn't count.  I 
worked
both W1AW/0 and W1AW/4 on 40 but Win-test counted the latter Q as a dupe.
Hopefully this will add another 1,000 points to the score.

This is a great contest with a bottomless pit of contacts available. 
Looking
forward to going over 1,000 contacts, which should be possible with a little
more skilful operating and fewer stupid mistakes.

Equipment:

K3 and Omni VI Plus
Win-test
Dipoles for 20-160
Tribander at 32 feet fixed west

73, Hal W1NN
Medina, Ohio