published by n2yo on Wed, 2017-02-01 00:11
North American QSO Party, SSB - January
Call: NR4M
Operator(s): NR4M
Station: NR4M
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: va
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:
80: 44 19
40: 230 34
20: 28 11
15:
10:
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Total: 302 64 Total Score = 19,328
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team: PVRC Rappahannock #1
Comments:
published by n2yo on Sun, 2017-01-15 10:57
Trying to get the hang of SO2R, but wasn't in the cards. Just before the contest my Flex 6700 decided to turn itself into a 'brick'.
Still not a lot of antenna choices here for domestic contests. 20 meters is the worst, with the lowest antenna I can turn west is at 120 feet. The lower in frequency I go, the more appropriate the antenna choices.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2016-12-04 23:27
Never had so many dupes in a contest. I was spotted a couple times as NR-3-M. Hope everyone had a good time.
published by n2yo on Tue, 2016-11-29 23:41
"Mr Murphy" showed up with his whole family this weekend. Spent all my off time fixing stuff or try to minimize things that were too bad to fix at the time.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2016-09-26 23:03
Had a HUGE crew, but some were in/out and we had SIX 'newbies'. Some of them had not done any RTTY before, so there was a bit of slowing down and explaining things and a bit of hand holding. This is not a bad thing necessarily, but with 6 beginners in major contest, some allowances were made. I would not have any issue having each one of them back again.
published by n2yo on Tue, 2016-06-21 23:14
Meeting at QTH of K7SV was called to order by Larry K7SV at 10:30AM. Larry discussed why recent efforts to revitalize the chapter did not come to fruition. Demographics precluded evening weekday meetings largely due to the work commute of the majority of working folks to northern Virginia or Washington DC. Weekday lunch meetings were poorly attended. Scheduling recurring weekend meetings doesn't work due to conflicts with contests, hamfests and other related happenings.
published by n2yo on Wed, 2016-06-01 01:10
Conditions were down, so things were slower. Really miss 10 meter, but we'll have to get used to it.
published by n2yo on Sun, 2016-02-28 13:06
Had a pretty good time, overall. Had enough people and plenty of food. 160 meter 8 circle is still 'AOL'. Frustrating! Beverages worked really well. The recent work with filtering and switching paid off. Lots of QRN from far off thunder storms Saturday night. Made things really tough at times on the low bands. When the storms causing that thunder arrived on Sunday about 1700 UTC, the rain static from hard rains made things difficult on 15 and 20 meters.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2016-02-15 20:38
Bands noisy first night, much better second night. Three 'newbie' ops with limited experience. One of the ops for the upcoming Heard Island DXpedition stopped by to see how RTTY is operated, so will at least be familiar with it while on the Island.
published by n2yo on Mon, 2015-12-07 19:23
Steve and Larry (K7SV) teamed again for this running. Steve worked from the beginning to about 03Z and Larry operated from 03Z to about 08Z. Steve took over from about 09Z to sunrise. That was both nights. Conditions were not stellar, but certainly not bad. QRN was minimal but at times the band was really packed. We had a problem with the 8 circle, so RX antennas were NE, SE and NW beverages. Transmit antenna is a pair of phased Tees with about 100ft vertical. rig = K3 driving a single 4-1000Z.
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