[SECC] FW: TNQP N3FY

[Robert Gerace]

There are so many great things about contesting! For me, I'm learning to be QRV on all bands and what works where. 

While I only made 2 contacts in the TNQP, I learned a few things:

- I'm pretty much unable to contact TN at this time.  I'm not on QRV on 80m, and I figured that would hurt me. My experience:

* I could hear people from all over the country working TN, but could not hear TN much at all.
* I did managed to dig two mobiles out on 40
* I decided to try to call CQ, and every time I found what seemed to be a clear freq near the suggested freq and transmitted QRZ? I received a pileup of 'C' and 'Y' answers (I can only assume TN's were working other TN's and everybody else could hear it but not me).

- I'm not sure that I could contact TN on 80m from 37 miles north of ATL, but assume I'd have a much better chance...

- Another thing I've learned is that my 40m seems to be most powerful in TX and CA and assume that is the skip zone?  (I've seen this in many of the weekend contests and most recently in the /140 special event.) -- another great thing about contesting.

To experienced contesters I'm sure that I'm preaching to the choir, but I'm thrilled that contesting is helping me to become a better operator...and will lead to being QRV to everywhere all the time!

That said, TN wasn't much fun for me.

Thanks for the answers to my question about the /M multi-counties.

73 de N3FY, Bob
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