New England QSO Party May 3rd and 4th

[N1API]

Here are the results of my efforts this weekend. Comments at the end.

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: NEWE-QSO-PARTY
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: MIXED
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 19234
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE:
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: United States
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.3.1

Results by band

Band --- Mode QSOs Multi
14 ---- CW ------ 58 ---- 17
14 ---- RTTY ----- 7 ----- 1
14 ---- SSB ---- 120 ---- 28
21 ---- CW ----- 33 ------ 7
21 ---- RTTY ---- 2 ------ 1
21 ---- SSB ------ 4 ------ 3
28 ---- CW -------4 ------ 1
28 ---- USB ------2 ------ 1
Totals ----------220 ----- 59



Conditions were definitely worse than last year as you can see by the band scores. I think that participation from Non New England stations was considerable less, especially on Sunday. I did have a couple of good runs on 20 SSB Sunday and I spent much of the time "working DX" by calling the DX stations for new multipliers. If it wasn't for the 7QP stations Saturday I would be "down" maybe 50 or 60 contacts. I've suggested to Tom that the start time for the NEQP be moved back to Noon, (1600 UTC) on Saturday. There was a TON of 7 call area stations on. I worked a few before the contest that were new counties for me. I was holding my breath that they would still be around when OUR QSO party started and they would not tell me I was dupe.

I spent more time twisting the dial looking for stations than anything else. 10 meters disappointed, even the 10-10 CW QSO stations were missing, 15 never really opened, and 20 was fair at best.

-73-
Al