[LCC] FQP - What a blast!

[Steve Lott]

Congrat's !!!

Ted and Chuck, awesome job !

steve
KG5VK

http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Ted Saba <kn5o at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> This past weekend I helped Chuck, NO5W, operate the Florida QSO Party..
> What a blast it is.. If you like as close to a
> never ending pileup for 20 hours, this must be it.  It is like being FT5ZM
> on Amsterdam Island for a while.
>
> I operated for about 9 hours and Chuck did 11 hours and I'm glad he took
> the last 5 hours.. If you read the comments
> on 3830 Scores about the FQP, you'll see several guys comment on how big
> the pileup was towards the end of our
> route.  In fact, I had to pull over for about 25 minutes so that Chuck
> could get it under control before we drove
> into another county.
>
> The average speed was about 30-35 WPM and at times, guys would call you at
> 40+ WPM.. It was all you could do to
> type in 4-5 characters and by that time, they were calling you a second
> time if you had not yet responded!
>
> We logged over 2250 Q's in 20 hours, which may not sound all that great on
> average, but consider that as soon as
> you crossed into a new county, the pileup begins anew - and if you are not
> in that county very long - the pileup starts
> all over again.. I bet the average QSO rate for the last 3-4 hours
> averaged close to 150... It was amazing and now that
> it is over, I'm ready to do it again.. It can be addictive...
>
> Fingers crossed, I hope we did well enough to win our category.. Dallas
> and Chuck won it last year and this year we had
> a similar raw score.  15M was terrible - 1Q - and we didn't even use 10M.
>  We did a little on 40M, so the workhorse band
> was 20M.
>
> Thanks to Mark, K5ER and to anyone else who worked us..
>
> 73,
> Ted KN5O
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