[LCC] W5WZ NAQP JAN 2018

[marsh at ka5m.net]

Yes, Bobby is a good teammate. The most fun FD I've ever operated in was at
K5ER with Bobby on the team. He's a good op and never seems to get tired.

I think your totals on 80M are especially impressive. The bands seemed to me
to be up and down a bit - but when they were up they were really up. I
worked one station in NY on 80M that was 40 dB over S9.  

I found it interesting that several stations "moved me" from 40M to 80M. One
even "moved me" from 80M to 160M. They obviously had networked computers and
were well aware of their band-multiplier totals.

Again, congrats on a great effort and score. You guys done good!

73,
Marsh, KA5M


-----Original Message-----
From: W5WZ [mailto:w5wz at w5wz.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 10:10 AM
To: marsh at ka5m.net
Cc: Bobby Baker WM5H <Robert.Baker at opso.net>; LCC
<lcc at louisianacontestclub.org>
Subject: Re: [LCC] W5WZ NAQP JAN 2018

Thanks Marsh!  

Bobby is a good teammate; we mix well for NAQP.   

My youngest two daughters had an honor band concert at 1130; I didn't get
into chair until 1337. Bobby had 173 QSOs in the log by then on 20m. I
started on 15m, but it wasn't very productive; the stations there were loud,
but only worked 39. 

Bobby was smoking on 40 meters from around 4pm until the end of the contest.
He had some 100+ hours on 40 at the same time I was having 100+ hours on
either 20 or 80. 

I had hoped to have enough operators to interlock a pair of transmitters on
the same band, one Run and one S&P. I think that could easily add 25 QSOs
per hour to that band. That alone could add 300 QSOs to the total over 12
hours. Do that on both M/2 run bands, and it is conceivable to add 600 QSOs
to the total. 

Our Internet had been down several days after the snow/ice event, and
finally came up around 9pm during the contest. So until then, we were
unassisted. We didn't even know if/when we had been spotted. 

It was a good time. The station performed flawlessly. Bobby always brings
good food!!!  I'm proud of our effort and the current 3830 score apparent
standing. 


Sent from my iPhone

Scott Dickson, W5WZ
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