[SCCC] NI6W (W4EF) Stew Perry Distance Challenge SOHP

[Michael Tope]

                  STEWPERRY Summary Sheet

        Start Date : 2013-12-29

     CallSign Used : NI6W
       Operator(s) : W4EF

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Power : HIGH
              Mode : CW


         Club/Team : Southern California Contest Club
          Software : N1MM Logger V13.10.2

         Band    QSOs    Pts
          1.8      55     210
        Total      55     210


             Score : 210
               Rig : FT1000MP MK-V; Alpha 87A

          Antennas : 56' Top Loaded Vertical w/~50 100ft-125ft radials

Did some searching and pouncing via the internet remote-link between my 
desert QTH and my home QTH starting around 3:30 AM local on Sunday 
morning. I haven't had any time to tackle the QRN problem or fix my RX 
antennas, so it was pretty tough going on receive. Normally when 
listening in person the 125Hz Inrad filter in my FT1000MP MKV helps with 
this sort of thing, but Skype CODEC doesn't seem to handle the resulting 
audio signal from the narrow bandwidth very well, so in a lot of cases 
intelligibility wasn't any better with the narrow filter than when using 
the wide SSB filter. Nevertheless it was fun to hand out some QSOs and 
hear some familiar callsigns slugging it out.

73, Mike W4EF.............