North American QSO Party, CW
Call: K3KU
Operator(s): K3KU
Station: K3KU
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MD
Operating Time (hrs): 6
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 1 1
80: 186 36
40: 52 17
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 239 54 Total Score = 12,906
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
After finishing family obligations, started at 0000Z. High bands dead; 40M
weak. Had fun on 80M, even managing to run. Nice not to be clobbered by the
KW stations. Interesting to watch the propagation shift, even on 80M.
I had decided ahead of time that I would QSY to another band if asked; to
practice fast band changes, and just to be nice. Only one guy, K3CR, asked me
to move -- to 160M. Well, to get on 160M I have to disconnect the coax'es
ffor the antenna (95-ft dipole) and xcvr from the Transmatch; use a clip lead
to connect to connect the xcvr coax center pin to both sides of the antenna
coax; and remember how to activate and operate the internal tuner in the
TS-850. And with all that the SWR is still about infinity, and I am running
about 10W. So I said to Alex "I'm very weak." He wanted to try anyhow, so I
said "Give me three minutes." And there he was, for my only QSO on 160M; and
the mult. I think that next time I will not QSY to 160M for just anybody.
:>)
Worked several active op's whom I do not remember from SS CW. I hope that the
people who like the QSO once-per-band and the short report also like the
non-challenge of auto-fill for the report after QSO on the first band. I know
I had several second-band QSO's that would not have happened if you actually
had to copy the report (gasp!).
I will submit an absolutely un-massaged log. Mr. Fumble Fingers here might
still have one name in the log as "Barrry". I noticed the error, but I can't
remember if I fixed it during the test. (QRX one while I go back and proof
read these comments.)
73, Art K3KU
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