Posted: 6/25/2017 2:17:36 PM EDT
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How many did you get?
106 confirmed here. All phone on an FT-857D running emerge power. 117 if you count the ones where I was in the middle of the QSO and either QSB or QRM got me. Edit: These are my personal numbers. I'm not counting the QSOs I completed with the ham club. |
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211 total for me, running 1E, mostly on my FT-857D on battery, and a few on my FT-1000 while I was running generator to recharge the deep cycle battery for the 857.
200 phone, 10 digital, and 1 CW. About 90 of those phone QSOs were on 6m. All HF contacts were on the 132' doublet, with the 6m contacts on the 3 element yagi. |
I can't believe it.....I actually pulled up even with Frank. He usually kicks my a$$. 
I ended up with 80 QSO's. All CW. About 80% were on 20m, and the rest were on 40m, except for 3 on 15m. Operating 1E, at 5 watts on a battery powered K2. Attic dipole, and my temporary backyard 40m end-fed. |
| I had an unlicensed friend over to experience the magic of fd and we worked probably 5 hours Saturday and 2 Sunday. We operated my home station on 100w and managed 486 contacts. He had never made a qso before so after that and after him trying to run and experiencing the feeling of getting it right while running, I think he'll be getting licensed soon - so thats a boon. |
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Not too many contactsmade. Had to work all day Saturday, but i did play a little sat night and sunday morning. 15m was real nice. Had about a dozen 5 watt or less cw contacts to west and east coast. Several at 1.6watts.. That made my day, nice space wx conditions compared to last year. Now I wish i would have taken vacation from work and enjoyed the event. Funny how the propagation pipeline favors different locations.
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It was an overly busy weekend for me, so I only had about a half hour to work the club station on Saturday, and just 15 minutes to work 20M from home on Sunday.
I did have one station come back at S9+20. He was a US ham in an aeromobile station over Cuba. Definately one of my coolest QSOs. |
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We were at about 250 CW contacts when I left at about midnight. Don't know the total score yet. I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise. 
Our logging software ate my first 18 contacts but I was able to recover them this morning. We ended up with 366 total QSOs, 189 of them mine. A little annoyed I didn't break 200 there! I got: 7 CW and 1 phone contact on 10 30 CW contacts on 15 50 CW contacts on 40 And the rest were on 20 |
I got 50 or so Q's... from home on Six before & after my time at the club station. Several new grids 
As a rough guess, 250 personal contacts on HF from the club operation. Not very good for the number of hours there. Clubs that have HF covered in the daytime should think about adding 6m. Pretty common for Sporadic E to be open midday to early evenings. Quoted:
I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise. Quoted:
I got home, sat in a chair and heard the AC fan kick in. I swear I heard a faint CW pattern: "CQ FD" in the fan noise. 
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I did have one station come back at S9+20. He was a US ham in an aeromobile station over Cuba. Definately one of my coolest QSOs. 
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Here's our score from this past weekend. I worked about 425 Q's on 40m phone on Saturday afternoon.
Station: NW8S Class: 5A LP QTH: OH Operating Time (hrs): 20 Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs ---------------------------- 160: 9 80: 200 74 40: 410 657 13 20: 291 111 11 15: 110 146 10: 17 73 6: 19 Total: 1037 1080 24 Total Score = 8,058 |
| I think I was around 50 or so for my club, which was down from other years. However, the club total was 613, far above previous years. I crashed around 2AM and slept in the back of my truck (that was a bad idea). Woke up around 5:30 and thought I would get a station, but we were 3A and three radios were in use. |
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I just got my ticket in March. So, I worked in the GOTA station. I made my 100 contacts in 1hour and 10minutes on Sunday morning!
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I can't believe it.....I actually pulled up even with Frank. He usually kicks my a$.
I ended up with 80 QSO's. All CW. About 80% were on 20m, and the rest were on 40m, except for 3 on 15m. Operating 1E, at 5 watts on a battery powered K2. Attic dipole, and my temporary backyard 40m end-fed. 
Funny thing is, I practiced on the paddles for a couple of days so I could use them for Field Day, and when I tried them again last night, I couldn't send for shit. Screw it! I'm going back to my bug! |
All hunt-and-pounce. |
W2S was the call we were running, made 100 CW contacts... not personally, I was logging for the guy making them. He's a CW machine with his bug. Was on 40m, using my FT897 and a G5RV Jr antenna. We were class 6A, but not all 6 stations were operating all the time. Usually 4-5, except at night, where only 1-2 were still going, the rest of us passed out.
456 total contacts 329 phone 27 dig 100 cw 582 qso points We're not hard core operators, and packed up around 10AM on sunday. Only made 18 contacts myself, all on 15m. |