[SECC] W8FN NAQP CW Aug 2020

[Randy Farmer]

North American QSO Party, CW - August Call: W8FN Operator(s): W8FN 
Station: W8FN Class: Single Op LP QTH: North Carolina Operating Time 
(hrs): 10:00 Radios: SO2R Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 
160: 80: 229 41 40: 385 51 20: 107 32 15: 12 6 10: ------------------- 
Total: 733 130 Total Score = 95,290 Club: South East Contest Club Team: 
SCCC #1 Comments: This was my first NAQP since moving to NC from TX. 
It's a somewhat different contest from here, but the differences may be 
mostly due to my lack of a decent antenna for 20 meters and higher. The 
first two or three hours were pretty brutal. It took over 2.5 hours to 
break the 200 QSO barrier. I couldn't get a run going on 20 so set out 
doing S&P but simply couldn't get myself to be heard in the initial 
frenzy. Things got a little better as more folks started to show up on 
40. I was eventually able to establish a decent run there and things 
started to look up a bit. I broke for dinner after 4 hours and returned 
to find conditions considerably better on 20, but mostly to the west 
coast. 40 took off real well then, and I was able to get things rolling. 
After a second short break I went to 80 with about 4 hours to go and 
discovered that having a real antenna was a whole lot better than the 
non-radial equipped short vertical up against the house I had been stuck 
with in W5 land. Rates on 80 were great, and I was able to do extended 
runs at 90-100 rates for the remainder of the contest, with interspersed 
QSOs on 40 with the second radio. I had set a tentative goal of 700 
QSOs, but in the first few hours it looked like I'd be lucky to hit 500. 
Once 40 and 80 got rolling for me I ended up actually exceeding my 
goal,so I'm quite pleased with the final results. Can't wait to run one 
of these thing with a real antenna for 20 through 10, maybe next year. I 
worked a whole lot of CWops guys; it seemed at times like an extended 
CWT session. Thanks to all for the QSOs, and CU in the upcoming 
contests. 73... Randy, W8FN

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/secc/attachments/20200802/4c3e84cb/attachment.html>