Tennessee QSO Party
Call: WF7T/4
Operator(s): WF7T
Station: WF7T
Class: SO Fixed LP
QTH: Davidson
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs Mults
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160: 5 5
80: 90 52 59
40: 115 30 46
20: 15 3 12
15: 1 1
10: 1 1
6:
2:
222:
432:
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Total: 227 85 0 124 Total Score = 106,124
Club: Tennessee Contest Group
Comments:
Thanks to everyone who participated in TNQP this year. What a blast! My
gratitude to the organizers who always do a fantastic job and did so again this
year. Excellent work by the mobile operators--wished I had another radio to
chase more! To those of you in my log, thank you for your patience and
perseverance.
Not many of problems this year: logging hung up a couple of times (I don't
understand the failure mode at this point: operator, interface or
program...probably the first thing.) Dog huddling by my feet during
thunderstorm signaled I better QRT until the lightning passed. Besides, he was
sitting on my foot-switch and wouldn't move. By the way, the foot-switch is a
J-38. My microphone-of-shame is an old HC-4 element blue-taped onto a cheap old
computer headset (Pics forthcoming.) My mike-of-shame seemed to work well with
my G5RV-of-shame, except on 20M where I really want it to work but does not.
Cheap and old, that's me!
So, 20M is the bane of my existence! I am hatching a plan for a perfectly
haphazard wire-beam pointed "out there, and that-a-way" for domestic contests.
I tried both RTTY and PSK31 but had no takers. It was an experiment.
40 and 80 were quite good to me albeit noisy on 75. Got a thrill when several
DX stations called me on 40CW! Rates were unexpectedly good considering the
state of my station and mental capacity. I even managed to load up my
G5RV-o'shame for a few QSOs on 160. Anything under 3:1 is OK, right?
Like last year I had a blast. This is one of my favorites, and thanks again to
all for playing.
Brad WF7T/4
Nashville, TN
Davidson County
"out there, and that-a-way"
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Station (of shame)
FT-857D 100W
G5RV at 33 feet
N1MM, Winkeyer USB
Blue masking tape and J-38 foot switch.
At least I solder things that need to be quite nicely...Mad soldering skills.