Great job, Steve!
I probably would have come closer to your number of contacts if the high
bands had been better, if I had gotten down to 40 meters earlier, and if I'd
done more C Q ing, especially on 80 meters.
But, as they say, that's water over the dam now, and besides, the contest is
always fun anyway.
Good luck with your writelog updating. ... I sure hope it doesn't do too
much to change its accessibility for you.
Please let us all know how that turns out.
P.S. I did end up submitting my NAQP SSB log to the contest web site. I'm
sure I'll not win any awards. However, I do think official log submissions
are good, so they can keep records of who the main contest participants
are, and how many there were.
Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 9:12 PM
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Subject: Re: KB8TYJ NAQP SSB Contest Report
Tom,
Nice to work you last night. I think I told you that you had just
missed Lloyd by a minute or two.
Like you, I found the high bands to be disappointing. I would have
like to have gotten more western mults, but it didn't work out.
Finished with 321 QSO's. 75 meters was the good band for me. I worked
221 on that band and the other 100 contacts spread over the other bands.
Also just learned that the Writelog contesting software I use has had a
total rewrite with a new version being introduced. I'm a little
concerned about changes to accessibility or functionality I have become
used to over the past 15 years. I guess I won't know until I install
it and see how it looks.
73, Steve KW3A
On 1/17/2016 5:36 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
> Hello, everyone:
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>
>
> Well, this year's NAQP SSB contest was a very unique operating event
> in a number of respects, owing to very strange band conditions.
>
>
>
> 10, 15, and 20 meters were in extremely poor shape for me up here in
> Central Lower Michigan, and I probably stayed on those bands too long.
> My main disappointment, though, was 40 meters. I usually do quite
> well on that band with my Alpha Delta DXCC antenna, but that was not the
case yesterday.
> I usually make the mistake of getting to 40 meters too late, and that
> really hurt me this time around. By the time I got there around 6:30
> Eastern time, the band had really gone long, to the point that there
> were actually very few stations to work.
>
>
>
> After about 9 and a half hours of operating, I ended up with 226 qsos
> and
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> 88 multipliers.
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> My breakdown by dand was as follows:
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> 160 meters--9
>
> 80 meters--117
>
> 40 meters--27
>
> 20 meters--43
>
> 15 meters--21
>
> 10 meters--9
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>
>
> I did mostly hunt and pounce, but tried some c q ing on 80 late in the
> evening.
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> I did have a bit of a good run between 11:30 and 12:30 Eastern time,
> which is what raised my qso count so much on 80 meters.
>
>
>
> To show you how strange things were for me up here, I only worked one
> Michigan station, and that was KE8FT on 160 meters at the very end of
> the contest. I heard some Wisconsin stations, but my efforts to
> contact them were unsuccessful.
>
>
>
> I did manage to work Steve (KW3A) on 80 meters. I also heard Lloyd on
> 80 meters, but we were both doing S and P, so couldn't work him.
>
>
>
> I am trying to decide whether to submit my log. I submitted my log
> for last week's CW contest, not because I thought I would win
> anything, but because it was a much better showing.
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>
> I'll see how I feel about that later this evening.
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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