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-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 9:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
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:
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> I'll see how I feel about that later this evening.
>
>
>
> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>