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| During the NAQP CW contest |
On Saturday I took part in the NAQP CW contest. It was this day and mostly early evening and evening that the thunder and lightening storms came my way. This limited my on air time in the contest. I entered as QRP at 5 watts and was going to lower the power into the mW range but the conditions would not allow it. I was having a hard enough time making contacts with 5 watts.
NAQP CW results
Band QSO Points Sec
7 4 4 4
14 34 34 23
21 16 16 7
Totals 54 54 34
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The total points for the contest were 1,890 not a very high score at all but I was only in the contest for about 2.5 hours do to a late start, BBQ for dinner and the lightening storms. The highlight to the contest was making contact with two Cuban station CO2JD and CO2MS who were taking part.
Another event was I did not take time to copy down call signs and exchange info on a pad of paper it was direct keyboard copy and type the info into the logging program. I have been practicing for months using PC contest practice software to get the keyboard and speed down. I was using the decoder on the K3 when the code speed was CRAZY.....but over all it was a success.
So that is how the weekend more or less went here at VE3WDM!!
4 comments:
Nice purchase.............it should arrive just in time for the winter outdoor contests !! ;-)
I don't suppose there are any SOTA peaks or Lighthouses for you to activate in your neck of the woods are there??
Good evening Bill, well outdoor winter contests up this way are only for the brave at heart. The rig is great and over the winter I am going to get used to the rig. I am also going to use this rig along with MAC software. Up to this point all my rigs are on Window software and I want to hit the MAC world as well. So the rig is going to be a learning curve as well as the MAC software. Bill thanks for stopping by the blog and taking the time to give your input.
Mike
Oh and sorry Bill for not addressing your other question....no sorry no SOTA's out this way and as for lighthouses I only wish I could be on the water...but my wife and I would love to retire in Newfoundland (that's in 7 years) so hang on and there may be a lighthouse activation in the near future....:))
We don't get many 3-day weekends down here in CR as they haven't adopted that efficiency custom of moving holidays around. But then, I'm retired, so.... :) We do get holidays that surprise us sometimes, though. We don't even know they are coming until a neighbor tells us or Sean says he doesn't have school. There are even local holidays when businesses close. Weird! :)
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