NR4M - The Goat Farm

Fun contest.

I operated as much as I wanted, but little 40/80, where the points are. I never could do the 'night time shifts', very well.

Didn't spent enough time on working mults, as I really enjoy running stations. The score reflects that.

Personally, I think they should spend energy on getting more operators on, rather than cutting the time. If there were 40% more operators on, we'd be complaining about it being crowded.

Murphy is alive and well in central VA.

Hadn't messed with the station since WPX CW and found that most things were 'hosed up' Only two rotator controllers were working, two of the others were showing a 'counter out of range' error, one P/P had no voltage going to it and the 40 meter Moxon turned easily, but not past 340 degrees to the west!

"Mr Murphy" checked in at this QTH this weekend. Had equipment failures that really could not have been predicted. We were able to do 'work arounds', so all was not lost.

Too many stations with nasty key clicks.

Thanks for all the Q's

North American QSO Party, RTTY - February

Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: FM18ch VA
Operating Time (hrs): 3:39

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 0 0
40: 51 23
20: 130 53
15: 34 26
10: 15 13
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Total: 230 115 Total Score = 26,450

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Thanks to K3LR and K1LZ, for giving us someone to 'chase'. It makes you perform better. 'Would-a, could-a, should-a' is a well known phrase here.
As many have already stated, you really couldn't ask for better conditions. Obviously, the high bands were the highlight of the weekend and it shows in everyone's scores.
Have never worked as many JA's as this weekend; they seemed to be everywhere. This was our highest QSO total EVER! And, I was very pleased that we kept up with the multipliers.

CQ WPX RTTY Contest - 2024

Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: FM18ch VA
Operating Time (hrs): 4:02

Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 0
40: 160
20: 133
15:
10:
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Total: 293 Prefixes = 212 Total Score = 226,204

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Worked the contest some on Sunday, as I had the time.

Thanks for the Q's

Steve NR4M

                    European Union DX Contest - 2024
 
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M
 
Class: SOABCW HP
QTH: FM18ch  VA
Operating Time (hrs): 10:28
 
Summary:
  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  EU Regions
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   160:    0     0         0           0
    80:   39     0        19          24
    40:  162     0        38          77
    20:  138     0        40          72
    15:  222     0        39          91

 
Started out with high hopes for a good time, but immediately found the transmit array had a 2.8:1 standing wave in the EU direction!  I found the bi-directional, NW/SE antenna position could hear EU better than the EU
position!   And, the EU Beverage was 'marginal'.  When a local buddy, running
only 100 watts, beat me in two pileups, I said 'Screw it'! and quit.
I was intending to give it up entirely, but got back on the second evening, but was still faced with mediocre antenna performance.
Still managed to work 45 10 pointers.
 

North American QSO Party, SSB - January
 
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M
 
Class: Single Op Assisted LP
QTH: FM18ch  VA
Operating Time (hrs): 3:47
 
Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
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   160:    0     0
    80:    0     0
    40:  140    34
    20:   57    31
    15:   39    24
    10:   26    13
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Total:  262   102  Total Score = 26,724
 
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
 

My high band antennas are just too high for a domestic contest. Just couldn't
get any 'traction'. Didn't start having fun till I got to the low bands.

Thanks for all the QSOs

Always nice to run into friends.