[SECC] GaQP NJ8J Single Op Mixed LP

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

                    Georgia QSO Party

Call: NJ8J
Operator(s): NJ8J
Station: NJ8J

Class: Single OpMixed LP
QTH: COBB
Operating Time (hrs): 12:57

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
------------------------
  160:
   80:     66        3
   40:    128      204
   20:     23        6
   15:
   10:
    6:
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Total:    217      213  CW-Dig Mults = 39  Ph Mults = 39  Total Score =
50,466

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:
Alinco DX-77T
LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner

Antennas:
110 foot OCF doublet fed with ladder-line


Logger: N1MM+

The end-fed Zepp is dead, long live the ladder-line-fed OCF doublet!

When we last left our story, a falling tree had broken off the longer
wire on the OCF doublet right at the feed point, turning it into a 30'
end-fed Zepp. This week, I got to restoring the OCF doublet in all of
its glory.  It took hacking a path through the forest I refer to as my
back yard, but it got done.  Admittedly, it's still a Bedsprings Brigade
Manor-level antenna, but it's a *much better* BBM-level antenna than a
30' end-fed Zepp.  This weekend the newly resurrected antenna got its
baptism (there's probably a theological error there somewhere, but for
an antenna I'm not going to worry about it).

I knew at half-time (after Saturday's session) that this was going to be
a GQP I was going to be happy with.  At half-time, I had already more
than doubled my previous high score for GQP.  Sunday wasn't near as
productive, but by the end I had still tripled said previous high score.

Playing with the RBN before the contest started pretty much showed that
15 and up weren't going to be useful (calling CQ a few times and seeing
*no* beacons pick it up sure tells you something), so I started out on
20.  20 didn't seem to be working much either, so I moved on down to 40.
 Pretty much spent my time bouncing around on 40, with the occasional
move to 80 or 20, where CW was working better than phone.  40 phone was
a different story.  Just before 0000Z, I managed to plop myself down on
7220, and had an 118 QSO run over about an hour and a quarter (that's a
tad under 95 Qs/hour, which is unusual for me).

Also unusual for me, most of the above is running, not S&Ping.  That's
one thing I like about GQP - I can actually run effectively.

Next project: finish getting the Winkeyer assembled.  I still use a
straight key, and running on a straight key gets to the arm at my age
(made me glad I decided to do mixed, as my arm got a rest when running
phone).

Ben
 --
Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
 "I love the way Microsoft follows standards.  In much the
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
                                            Paul Tomblin
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