North American QSO Party, CW - January Call: K4BAI Operator(s): K4BAI Station: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP QTH: GA Operating Time (hrs): 10 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 73 28 80: 176 42 40: 410 51 20: 277 54 15: 44 16 10: 2 2 ------------------- Total: 982 193 Total Score = 189,526 Club: South East Contest Club Team: SECC#1 Comments: Was expecting to be interesting to work a NAQP with only my wire antennas since the TH6DXX failed in the ARRL 10M contest last month and hadn't worked since. Worked with the wires (40M dipole, 88' center fed zepp, 80M inverted vee dipole, and 160M inverted L) for about two hours and when on 20 turned the antenna switch to the TH6DXX and heard strong signals. The beam was working and worked for the rest of the contest. So, my high band score is probably a great deal better than I had expected. Wanted to hit the 1000 QSO mark, but the crowd was thinning on 80 and it wasn't to be. Thanks for all QSOs and looking forward to the NAQP SSB next week. Only QSO other than local on 10M was ZF9CW. 15M was about as expected. OK to western areas and the Caribbean and not much else. 20M was long until late afternoon, when skip shortened up and I was able to get a lot of mults in the eastern part of the country that had been missing earlier. 40M was as good as I have ever heard it. On 80, before I ran out of time at 0433Z, was a bit weaker than recent year particularly to the west coast. Probably was improved to that area after my QRT. 160M was more enjoyable with my inverted L that KU8E built and put up for me in December than it would have been with my T vertical using the 80M wire. Also was nice to be able to switch between 80 and 160 just using the antenna switch and not having to fool with changing the 80M coax. 73, John, K4BAI. Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/