[SECC] NAQP CW NJ8J Single Op LP

Ben Coleman NJ8J nj8j at benshome.net
Sun Aug 5 03:22:56 EDT 2018


                    North American QSO Party, CW - August

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

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: Georgia
Operating Time (hrs): 9:25

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
-------------------
  160:   11     7
   80:  119    33
   40:  167    38
   20:   75    30
   15:    1     1
   10:
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Total:  373   109  Total Score = 40,657

Club: South East Contest Club

Team: SECC#1

Comments:

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

Antennas:
110 ft OCF doublet fed with ladder-line

Logger: N1MM+

This is my new personal best for NAQP CW August.  More Qs that my last
high score in 2014, but less mults(probably because 15M was usable back
in 2014, but it certainly wasn't this year).  I ended up short on
full-time, having lost an hour and a half to work early on (that happens
when you work from home).

20 seemed pretty mediocre, with lots of QSB.  By the time I got to them,
40 and 80 was much better.  The 10-Q rate meter spent a fair amount of
time between 45 and 60, occasionally breaking 70 or 80.  That's better
than what I've done in the past, where the meter would spend most of the
time between 30 and 35.

When I got done, I realized that I had managed to log the entire contest
using the N1MM+ NAQPSSB log instead of the NAQPCW log.  I had to export
the log to ADIF, change the mode for each Q to CW (actually, in ADIF
format, pretty easy to do without worrying about potentially changing a
callsign), and import back into the correct NAQPCW log.

Ben
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Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
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