[HiDARG-MEMBERS] NAQP Aftermath Thoughts

[Mike Williams]

how many contacts..how many multipliers


On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:22 AM Mike Darling <themikedarling at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yep I submitted mine last night, for a total score of.... 3!
>
> All contacts were on 40m.
>
> Mike D
> N7GND
>
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 10:59 AM Mike Williams <kb7klt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Good job Randy...How do our scores end up on the 3830 website?  I didn't
>> see us?  too soon?
>> I had 69 QSO's with 39 multipliers for a score of 2691  6 hrs op time
>>  20, 40, 80   I never heard anything on 10 or 15...tried for awhile for
>> three different ones on 160 but couldn't make it work
>>
>> I've submitted Chuck's log now and mine too....how 'bout Joe, Mike D, and
>> Max?  are yours in yet?
>>
>> de Mike KB7KLT
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:33 PM Randy Tomer <w6ra.randy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I thought it was pretty cool that so many members were into working the
>>> NAQP.  Daytime conditions on 20 meters were good enough so I assume most of
>>> your contacts were made on 20.
>>> Max beat me out on 20 when both of us were calling the same station at
>>> once. I made the contact after him. Late afternoon conditions on 40 were
>>> good but but not so good after sunset.  I did work Brazil and the Cayman
>>> Islands on 40 after dark but they weren't easy.  80 meters was not very
>>> good this evening and things were difficult enough that I looked outside to
>>> make sure my antenna hadn't fallen down.  It was ok, and I did manage to
>>> get a couple of "outstanding signal" comments.
>>> My antenna is a 100' long center fed zepp up 60'. I never was able to
>>> get a good run going by calling cq, which was disappointing. A total of 129
>>> contacts were made with 65 multipliers for a total score of 8,385 in 6
>>> hours of op time.  It was slow going.  If you print out your summary sheet
>>> and save it you can use it for comparison with next summer's NAQP and next
>>> years contests.  In next summer's contest 20 meters will be open almost
>>> twice as long and so will the numbers of contacts.  To see how the Big Guns
>>> did, go to the 3830 Scores website and read their comments.  Before the
>>> internet all the big gun operators would hang out on 3830 kHz and talk
>>> about whatever contest they just finished, hence the name on the web. Some
>>> of them will have scores of at least 100,000.  It's much easier for the ops
>>> in the middle of the country to run a frequency than it is for us.  Don't
>>> forget to upload your log to LoTW!
>>>
>>> 73, Randy
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