[NCC] Fwd: NA Sprint CW K8MR QRP

[Jim K8MR via NCC]

Heard and called K3LR many times, but no joy!
 
I'll just have to see Tim, and lots of the rest of you, on Saturday.
 
73  -  Jim
 
 
  
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Subj:  NA Sprint CW K8MR QRP


NA Sprint CW Contest - September

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

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH:  Ohio
Operating Time (hrs): 3

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Op  Time
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80:   31     
40:   75         
20:   57         
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Total:  163    Mults = 39   Total Score = 6,357

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Team: NCC/MRRC  East

Comments:

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do for the sprint.  After WRTC, organizing 
Ohio's
W1AW/8 operation, the OhQP, plus some  vacation travel, I was pretty tired 
out
after getting back from our most  recent NJ family visit on Friday evening. 
I
wasn't really up for getting  the whole station back in SO2R shape, 
relearning
N1MM, and getting up at  5am Sunday to head to Ohio's other good hamfest 3 
hours
away in Findlay,  Ohio. 

I decided that my KX3 batteries could use a discharge cycle, so  picked 
QRP. I
figured if I flamed out early, it would be OK to quit, and  I'd have less
adrenalin pumping when I did quit for the  night.

That's what I did. 3 hours and out. I left a lot of 80 meters  behind, but 
at
0300z the big stations were still in their mutual feeding  frenzy, which 
makes
slow times for QRP.

After QRP activity in  Florida and Punta Cana with improvised antennas, 
this was
one of my few QRP  efforts with real antennas, and first in the Sprint. I 
did
somewhat better  than I expected, though with lots of lost jump balls and
requests for  fills. No 20 meter scatter QSOs in spite of hearing lots of 
the
big guys  pretty well. The only mult heard but not worked was KL7SB.

Plans are to  be back in Florida in February. See you then, as well as in 
lots
of other  contests from Ohio before then.

73  -  Jim   K8MR


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