[SCCC] NI6W (W4EF) Stew Perry Distance Challenge SOHP
Michael Tope
W4EF at dellroy.com
Tue Dec 31 22:36:50 EST 2013
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.............
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