[OhQP-mail] OhQP AF8A Single Op LP

[Gary Mikitin]

It sounds like everyone had a good time this year.  Always good to work MRRC members, OhQP’ers from prior years, and fellow CWops members.



> 
>                    Ohio QSO Party - 2020
> 
> Call: AF8A
> Operator(s): AF8A
> Station: AF8A
> 
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: Oh, GEAU
> Operating Time (hrs): 11
> 
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> --------------------
>   80:  345      
>   40:  211      
>   20:   50      
>   15:    0      
>   10:    0      
> --------------------
> Total:  606     0  CW Mults = 100  Ph Mults = 0  Total Score = 121,200
> 
> Club: Mad River Radio Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Wow, this year exceeded all expectations.  It was one of those rare contests
> where I could CQ ad infinitum.  Clicking on spots filled those times when CQs
> stopped producing.  CW kept me fully occupied,  though I had a mic with me if
> things got desperate.
> 
> Great activity, brought on by who-knows-what.  SF=70 (woo hoo!)?  COVID 19
> lockdown?  W8CAR whippage?  The 2020 State QSO Party Challenge?  Probably a
> combination of all.  Example:  I made a string of 17 Qs after my first CQ at
> 1600.  The first hour was good for 91Qs.
> 
> Better yet, I was in quasi-Field Day conditions, with a temporary 40/80 trapped
> dipole (40 feet high at the center), and a less than ideal rig (IC-706MKIIG,
> K8MFO’s old county expedition rig, which keeps going and going…).  An LDG
> tuner tamed the SWR on 20m.
> 
> K8MR should consider asking Everyready Battery to sponsor him…as the Energizer
> Mobile (though he would look rather odd in a pink furry costume, but perhaps
> that would qualify him for yet another NCJ cover photo).  16 Qs and 13 mults -
> tnx Jim!    Next best were the ten stations who were good for 3 Qs, so K8MR was
> truly in a multiplier class by himself.
> 
> K8RYU called in a for a few wobbly QSOs from his Omni V. Glad to get those mults
> as well.  Having Uli, ZR2A/4, come back to my early evening 40 meter CQ from
> South Africa was a thrill.  
> 
> Mult stats:  45 states (missed ND, WY, UT, AK, HI), 4 provinces, 51 Ohio
> counties.
> 
> I didn’t realize it at the time, but bio breaks and meals added up to 62
> minutes, so actual on-time was 11 hours.  Guess I better learn to eat (and do
> other important things) while operating CW, as others have demonstrated in the
> past.
> 
> Tnx QSOs, everyone!
> 
> 
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