[SCCC] NAQP=CW- Jan 09

[WN6K - Paul Dorey]

                    North American QSO Party, CW - January

 

Call: WN6K

Operator(s): WN6K

Station: WN6K

 

Class: Single Op LP

QTH: Vista, CA

Operating Time (hrs): 9:45

 

Summary:

 Band  QSOs  Mults

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  160:   21    10

   80:   91    29

   40:  129    34

   20:  206    43

   15:   69    21

   10:    0     0

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Total:  516   137  Total Score = 70,692

 

Club: Southern California Contest Club

 

Team: SCCC #2

 

Comments:

 

Better Late Than Never

 

After a week of beating a "Vista" PC into submission and making it into an
"XP" (thanks Juan, W6NOW) I was ready to tackle contesting once again.

 

Computer ran flawlessly - not a single CW hiccup which was not the usual old
case.

 

Only flaw was this op needs to focus more on looking for MULTS. Seeing score
of the brethren that succeeded, there were two factors that stood out: 

 

1)MULTS over 150

2)SO2Rs

 

No immediate plans to cure the second and if the first is related to the
second then I am just bound to be an also ran.

 

I thought the conditions were 'fair' but as others have pointed out from the
west, when 20m closed it was too early for 40 and lower. Hope this weekend
will prove better.  Like the flux numbers but it is NOISY as all get out on
20m today. arghhh.

 

A month or so back I put up an OCF wire antenna and that has made these
MULTS on 160 more possible.  In past, would be lucky to work neighbors if
the cat stood still long enough to load him.

 

Thanks for the Qs, sorry for any repeats and see you all in the next one.

 

WN6K, Paul

 

"Most of us wonder if our lives can make any difference. Marines don't have
that problem." 

 

Ronald Reagan