Alabama QSO Party
Call: KC4HW
Operator(s): KC4HW
Station: KC4HW
Class: Mobile Solo OpCW LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 143
20: 121
15:
10:
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Total: 264 0 CW Mults = 40 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 24,816
Club: Alabama Contest Group
Comments:
First of all, thanks to all that participated both in and out of Alabama. I
have received 100 logs/submissions so far, very good turn out.
Also thanks to all those that assisted with promoting this event.
It seems to me that we had better than normal propagation. With all the
activity on the band from the NPOTA and the Ships OTA and other operating
events, it was busy on 20m at the start. I had to go to 14057 to find an open
frequency. Fortunately many stations found me and I was off and running. 40m
was good most of the time. I was committed to operating 20m and 40m so that
everyone would have a pretty good opportunity to work the counties that I was
going to be in. There was a period in the early afternoon that was sort of
puny, but for the most part conditions were the best that I have experienced in
several years. Lots of support throughout the country as well at DX and VE
stations.
With help from two of my friends I was able to get the Kenwood TS-50 and
Hustler resonators operational on the ole 1999 Chevy pickup with 390k+ miles
working. The biggest obstacle was the key circuit for the TS-50, but my old
buddy Tim/AB4B found the solution--it always pays to read the manual, right
Tim....hi Additionally Don/K1DC was very helpful in quickly getting the
resonators tuned to frequency. Actually Don/K1DC and I were doing the antennas
Friday night around 7PM. Guess you can't start to early.. hi Actually had to
re-tune the 20m resonator a bit on the fly, because I was so high in the band,
but it was easy to do since I knew where the resonant point was.
Although it all seemed to come together at the last minute, it all work
flawlessly. Never had a glitch all day. Used computer logging with Writelog
and a W3YY Serial Port Keying Interface. No rig control. Writelog give you
the ability to enter the frequency in the log entry window so that made it easy
to change bands. The TS-50 is a bit of old technology, it seemed to work fine.
I did put in a 500hz CW filter that helped, But would have been nice to have had
a 350hz one--I think.
Single operator NO driver! I started early to get to the tri-county area of
WASH, CHOC and CLRK which I traveled to each county separately to operate. I
left home at 6:15AM CDT and arrived at WASH and was ready to go on time. Was a
short ride to CHOC, CLRK then a bit longer ride to the other counties (MNRO,
ESCA, COVI, CONE BULT and CREN), tried to make GENE but just could not get
there. Actually I spent to much time in each of the previous 9 counties and
just could not get to GENE. Drove a total of 490+ miles and was at it for 17
hours and by the time I got home was a pretty beat little boy! hi.
I guess this is it, thanks for all the QSOs and supporting the Alabama QSO
Party!
73
Jim/KC4HW
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