[SEDXC] 06 GQP

[Tommy]

Georgia QSP Party 2006

Who ordered those 2 pm Saturday storms and the solar storms????

SCORE: 57232


Call:		W4BQF
Operator:	W4BQF
Station:	W4BQF

Class:	SOAB CW HP
QTH:	Cook
Operating time:  11.5 hrs

Summary

Band	QSOs

80	74
40	292
20	217
15	1
	------
	584

Points:	1168
Multi's		49

Score:		57232

Station:
Omni 6 Plus....Titan 3 amp.....80m dipole...YPlog....three pots of 
coffee...lots of Macadamia/chocolate chip cookies.

Weather and band conditions could not have been any worse. Normally I 
try to dig out QRP stations, but with 30dB over QRN just could not do 
it. QRP in high QRN conditions is not a great way to operate. It was 
jump back and forth between 40m and 20m. At times when 20m seemed 
completely dead for the US, a DX station would pop out of the noise 
and be very copyable. Could only work the stronger sigs on 80m 
because of the QRN. Boy, the band was booming the first hour, my 
first hour rate got up to 160 Q/h, later one quick shot at 200 Q/h 
and then another 150 Q/h. Other than that, the rates seemed 
reasonable. I think Mike did a great job in getting the word out for the GQP!

Tom - W4BQF
Eastern suburbs of Cecil, Ga.