7th Call Area QSO Party
Call: N7SMI
Operator(s): N7SMI
Station: N7SMI
Class: Cnty Exped SO HP
QTH: WYLIN/UTRIC
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs
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160:
80: 2
40: 20 12
20: 1500 2
15: 2 172
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 22 1686 2 Mults = 64 Total Score = 220,416
Club: Utah DX Association
Comments:
This year I found a location and set up Friday night in the middle of nowhere
on
the Wyoming/Utah border east of Bear Lake. Photo at
http://smithplanet.com/radio/7qp/2015-7QP.jpg Coyotes howled all night and the
winds howled all day. There's a reason there are no trees in sight.
N1MM+ bugs with my Winkeyer killed my CW hopes and I gave up after an hour of
debugging (most of the morning 40 meter time) with only 22 CW QSOs, and RTTY
was a bust (2 QSOs in 40 minutes of CQing), so I did phone almost exclusively.
I
logged 1710 QSOs total in 13 hours operating time. 1500 of them were on 20
meter SSB! I kept wanting to try other bands, but thing never subsided on 20
meters so I stuck with it until 9:30pm when my voice was shot and I called it
an operation. LOTS of repeats with the long, complex WYLIN/UTRIC exchange -
and
loads of dupes, but there was almost always people answering my CQs.
I ran ~400 watts from a KPA500 into a CrankIR vertical. I was very impressed
with how well it worked. Quite a bit of DX and 48 states (missed CO and KY),
but the low takeoff and little low band time resulted in very few nearby
contacts - only 1 WY station, 1 NV station, and 2 UT stations!
I had a great time giving out two states and two counties. Thank you to the
7QP
organizers and plaque sponsors!
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