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Hank -<br><br>It may be a bit early for someone to give an accurate answer to the question "Has the contest gone to a majority of SSB?", but I just got done looking at the results of K8MR. Well over half of his contacts were on CW... I operated with N9FN, and, although I don't have the logs at hand, I believe most of our contacts were on CW. <br><br>It does appear that publicity for the OQP was superb... and maybe that did bring out some newbies who were willing to give it a shot on SSB but were not ready to tackle a contest on CW. At any rate... from the feeback I have seen so far... lots of fun was had by lots of folks... I sure know I had a great time from the N9FN van.<br><br>Certainly, if you were having trouble on CW, that could explain fewer QSO's than you might have otherwise expected. I don't recall working you, so I can't speculate on whether it was your signal level... or your sending with the J-38, but since you were having better success on SSB than most people might expect from a QRP signal... perhaps it was just timing.<br><br>Bummer about your computer not keying the rig... was it working properly when you tested things out before hitting the road?<br><br>Did you make the trip without backup hardware?<br><br>Better luck next time.<br><br>-Dave-<br>-K9FN-<br><br><br><br>> Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:01:58 -0400<br>> From: n8xx@arrl.org<br>> To: ohqp-mail@ohqp.org<br>> CC: mrrc@contesting.com<br>> Subject: [OhQP-mail] Lack of CW Activity - or was it QRP or QLF?<br>> <br>> <br>> I found a few "runs" on 75 SSB, but I was semi-disappointed with 80 CW. <br>> Things seemed too run out quickly, and I went to S&P and found few <br>> "new" stations each time.<br>> <br>> Has the contest gone to a majority of SSB?<br>> <br>> Doing QRP with SSB on 75 is a challenge, though sometimes a "run" <br>> developed - perhaps when someone put N8Q on a DX cluster - or maybe just <br>> coincidence. I didn't find a time when I exceeded 40 Q's/hour for a <br>> complete hour, The "rate meter" did exceed 60/hour for 20 minutes on <br>> both CW and SSB a few times, but the string just didn't continue.<br>> <br>> Maybe it was because on CW I was stuck with my trusty J-38, and my left <br>> foot wouldn't move faster than about 18 WPM, so many folks slowed down <br>> when answering my CQ's, or maybe it was just because I was running <5 watts.<br>> <br>> Anyway, I made more Q's than in NEWAygo county during the Michigan QSO <br>> party, so I can't really complain.<br>> <br>> Now, back to figuring out why my keying circuit for my computer didn't <br>> work. :)<br>> <br>> 73 de n8xx Hg<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> OhQP-mail mailing list<br>> OhQP-mail@ohqp.org<br>> http://mail.ohqp.org/mailman/listinfo/ohqp-mail_ohqp.org<br> </body>
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