[SCCC] K0XP - NAQP - CW

[Steve]

>                     North American QSO Party, CW - August
>
>Call: K0XP
>Operator(s): K0XP
>Station: K0XP
>
>Class: Single Op LP
>QTH: CA
>Operating Time (hrs): 1 total
>
>Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Mults
>-------------------
>    40:   43     24
>-------------------
>Total:   43    24  Total Score = 1,032
>
>Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
>Team: none

>Comments: Nice to be: 1) back in SCCC territory; 2) off the east 
>coast at long last; and 3) back on the air after a hiatus of 10 
>years with no antlers at my last two QTHs in Connecticut. Was only 
>able to run about 55 watts due to still-existing RF feedback but 
>laid out two radials this evening against which a random 
>28-some-foot wire in a pine tree was loaded with a tuner, and those 
>radials cooled things down some to the point where I was actually 
>able to sign my call without it coming out "Y dahdahdahdahdahdahdah 
>X G" most the time. I tried the CWT the other night and that was an 
>embarrassment; made me wonder if my fingers were well beyond their 
>prime (probably are anyway). Due to the wire's length, I've only 
>attempted 40, and didn't even know about the NA until I finally 
>connected everything together at 0430Z and saw the bandscope busier 
>than heck above 7025. From there, it was off to the races once I 
>found the radials cooled things down some and I could run the power 
>up a mite bit. Had to take a short break at 0530Z.

>Condx not very noisy for me and could copy lots of weaker stations 
>who greatly surprised me by actually responding to my peanut whistle 
>squeaking away at them. I was astounded to snatch a pair of 
>Hawaiians, a YT and a SK in the first 30 minutes; usually, those are 
>the ones I miss for clean sweeps. It'll take me a couple days to 
>generate a legible log as I had to log on a pad of grocery lists due 
>to not having unpacked everything (read: my old logs and computer 
>cables for logging) yet.

Steve, K0XP