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2015 New England QSO Party Results

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Ken K3IU
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8 comments on “2015 New England QSO Party Results”

  1. Seemed like pretty poor conditions this year and I was not highly motivated to keep BIC more than a total of a little over 5 hours. I was virtually all Runnin’ & Gunnin,’ but I did work a few S&P. I recall working W1WBB, K1DM, W1AN, KS1J. I somehow missed W1XX. If I missed someone else, my apologies for poor memory.

    New England QSO Party

    Call: K3IU/1
    Operator(s): K3IU
    Station: K3IU

    Class: Single Op HP
    QTH: RI
    Operating Time (hrs): 5.1

    Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
------------------------
   80:     43        
   40:     79        
   20:    141        
   15:     21        
   10:      3        
------------------------
Total:    287       0  Mults = 59  Total Score = 33,866
  2. Call:  W1XX
Ops:  K1XA  W1XX
Station:  W1XX

Class:  M/S HP
QTH:  WASRI
Op Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
Band     CW Qs     PH Qs
-----------------------------------
80:      6         8
40:      232       331
20:      264       914
15:      42        23
10:                1
-----------------------------------
Total:   544       1277 Mults = 115
Total Qs = 1821  Score = 271,975

Club:  CTRI Contest Group

    Comments:
    I call it band compression. Ten meters was non-existent, 15 not much better. 80 meters lacked sustained activity, leaving the bulk of action to 40 and 20. Even with the best of intentions to push for more CW operating, the disparity from phone Qs grew even more as the CW rate dropped. Hence over 900 Qs on 20 SSB — a well that never stops giving.

    First time here with Telnet assisted capability which didn’t really prove helpful until the closing hours Sunday when EU finally opened up to some much needed DX multipliers. TNX to K3IU and W1AN for some last minute N1MM (still Classic) mentoring on the Telnet connection.

    It was great as usual teaming up with Bob, K1XA, who was fresh from operating the previous weekend from Manatee County in the Florida QSO Party with K1TO as K4N.

  3. New England QSO Party

Call: K1SD
Operator(s): K1SD
Station: K1SD

Class: Single Op HP w/ packet
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 5

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
------------------------
   80:                
   40:             175
   20:     12      136
   15:              14
   10:                
------------------------
Total:     12      325  Mults = 59  Total Score = 20,591

Club: CT RI Contest Group

    Comments:

    Wasn’t able to operate nearly as much as I wanted, so I kept it casual while I was on. Had a few very good runs on 40 Sunday and a few on 20 as well. As others have said, the high bands were terrible.

    Saw John W1XX spotted early and worked him on 20. He’s always tough for me on higher bands; his antennas must be too high. John W1AN and Bill W1WBB called in on 40. Saw Ken K3IU spotted but he wasn’t working my digital mode. Never heard or saw any other CTRIers.

    Bottom line: had fun.

    73 James K1SD

  4. My formatting got screwed up:

    40 – all phone
    20 – 12 digital and 136 phone
    15 – all phone

  5. I had fun on Saturday evening. Didn’t get on Sunday until the very end. The station worked well, my 40-m dipole continues to work well on 15-meters, but conditions seemed less than in recent months. 40-m was clearly my most productive band, but 80 also worked well. That’s probably because I spent so much time there, and was running most of the time on these two lower bands.

          Band:    QSOs     Points     Multipliers
       3.5      112       220          11
       7        144       288          39
      14         36        72           8
      21         16        32           7
_________________________________________________
     Totals:    308       612          65

     Score:  39,780

     Operated 5.75 hours total.

High power
All bands
CW Only
Assisted

    K1DM

  6. Call Used                   : KS1J
Last County Ran             : BRIRI
Callsign(s) of Operators(s) : KS1J 
Entry Class                 : Single Op - Low Power

BAND   CW     PH     MULTS
==========================
80        6       0      0  
40       54       0     11  
20      174       0     36  
15        1       0      0  
10        0       0      0  


Multipliers     :  47 New England Counties/State/Prov
Extra DX Mults  : 8

Claimed Score   :  25850

    Got on after completing tons of yard work. So maybe operated 5 hours or so total. Conditions on 20 seemed okay but noisy (atmospheric) in the afternoon.

  7. New England QSO Party

Call: W1AN
Operator(s): W1AN
Station: W1AN

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: CT

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
------------------------
   80:                
   40:    121       29
   20:    241       16
   15:                
   10:                
------------------------
Total:    362       45  Mults = 71  Total Score = 54,599

Club: CT RI Contest Group

    Saturday included yard work, mowing and tractor repairs. Couldn’t get much going in the chair after that, butt put in several hours Sunday. Worked K1SD, K3IU/1, W1XX, KS1J.

    Anybody work RTTY?

    Nice results from K1XA and W1XX!!

    73, John W1AN

  8. Had fun with quite limited op time. Maximized available stations Day 1 by seeking out 7QP, INQP and ARI ‘runners’. Day 2 mostly CQ’d with very good rates. NEWRI was well represented on SSB by W2DAN, and on CW by K3IU & WA1BXY…I stuck to CW for the double QSO pts. Best DX incl. JT1CO and EK100GM on 20m and ZL3TE on a mostly dead 10m. Worked *two* BRIRI stations for 1st time in a long time…KS1J was finally not alone! When CQ’n got few answers the spotting cluster helped add new DX mults and find unworked NEQP/other QSO party CQers. 73, Bill W1WBB

    New England QSO Party

    Call: W1WBB
    Operator(s): W1WBB
    Station: W1WBB

    Class: Single Op LP
    QTH: NEWRI
    Operating Time (hrs): 7:15
    Location: Out of State/Province

    Summary:   Compare Scores
Band	CW-Dig Qs	Ph Qs
80:	32	1
40:	157	17
20:	134	13
15:	-0-	-0-
10:	4	1
Total:	327	32	Mults	69	Total Score	47,334
 

Club: CT RI Contest Group

    Comments:
    5 hrs/203 QSOs Day 1: alot of S and P working other QSO parties along with W1
    CQers.

    2 hr 15m/156 QSOs Day 2: ‘Ran’ alot…very little time available Sunday.

    Spotting cluster used to find other QSO Partiers/new mults and increase fun
    factor! I feel that’s a good new NEQP rule change.

    With solar flux and sunspot #’s at monthly lows 10m offered very little. 15m
    TX issues kept me off that band. Low K index and quiet low bands (very little
    QRN/thunderstorms) helped out 20, 40 and 80m. W2DAN kept my county active on
    SSB so stuck to CW and the 2-pt QSO.

    Many thanks to Tom K1KI and gang for FB organizing efforts/annual
    write-up/results!

    Icom 706 @ 100w; Hexbeam 10-20m @ 32′; 88′ doublet and OCF dipole 40-80m. N1MM
    + Logger; LoTW & Clublog.

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