[SECC] January 2005 NAQP CW Claimed Score

[Weesie Laney]

Hello all:

Here is the claimed score:

Band   QSOs   Mults
160      39       20
 80     184       44
 40     209       51
 20     201       51
 15      90       32
 10      46       18

ALL   769      216    =   166,104.  10 hours.

Frustrating contest for me.  Did SO2R.  Made at least 190 of the QSOs on the second radio while running on the first.  Need a good antenna for 160 and a second decent antenna for 10 for it to be fully effective.  With SO2R, I fell short of my SO1R score from last January by 56 QSOs and 16 mults.  I did not do a good job of getting stations to QSY, even with the second radio QRV on another band.  One reason is that the second radio was usually using an inferior antenna and was not on a QSY frequency, but was searching for new QSOs.  The second radio helped keep up the rate and located mults that I might have missed otherwise.  I did take the main rig to 15 several times to get mults when I couldn't get through with the 15M dipole on the second rig.It is much easier to QSY with just one radio and one button to push (and maybe one antenna switch to use).  I did agree to all requests of me to QSY and all but one were successful.  

I worked no stations in ND or SD or AK or HI.  I heard HI and AK stations on the second radio but never heard one running on a frequency.  Also worked NA countries:  VP5, VP9,
ZF, XE, V3, PJ7, and TG.  Also CU2JT on two bands was the only station outside NA worked this time.

Had six banders from N2NC and W4OC.  10 five banders.  26 four banders.  20 M closed about 0030Z.  

SECC members worked:  WB4SQ, N4PN, KU8E, W4OC, N4GG, W4NTI, KA9EKJ, K4NO. Also K8JQ and K5ZM, who operate at NQ4I.  Worked W4BTZ/M in GA and KA4NWS, KR4M, and AF4OX in SC.

Don't know if I can do SO2R on SSB next weekend.  Won't be good at it anyway.  I tried for SS, but the computer crashed everytime I changed rigs.  Will check it out this week.  Jeff; I doubt I make a lot of contacts in SSB next weekend.  So, drop me to the part-time team if necessary.

73,

John, K4BAI.