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KQ8RP ARRL SSB DX Contest 2011
ARRL-SECTION: OH CALLSIGN: KQ8RP CLUB: Delara Contest Team CONTEST: ARRL-DX-SSB CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED 40M HIGH SSB CLAIMED-SCORE: 30720 OPERATORS: KQ8RP ADDRESS: USA CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V11.2.4 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ——————- 160: 80: 40: 160 64 20: 15: 10: ——————- Total: 160 64 Total Score = 30,720 Comments: Flex 5000a, Phased Verticals, Professional AL80B [...]
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KQ8RP ARRL DX CW Contest 2011
02/19/2011 Call: KQ8RP Operator(s): KQ8RP Station: KQ8RP Class: SOAB LP QTH: Ohio Operating Time (hrs): Summary: Band QSOs Mults ——————- 160: 80: 5 5 40: 75 34 20: 102 40 15: 39 28 10: cheap 15 13 ——————- Total: 236 120 Total Score = 84,600 Club: DELARA Contest Team Comments: This is my first time [...]
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KQ8RP CQ WW 160 Meter Contest Results 2011
CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB Call: KQ8RP Operator(s): KQ8RP Station: KQ8RP Class: Single Op LP QTH: Ohio Operating Time (hrs): Summary: Total: QSOs = 498 State/Prov = 53 Countries = 10 Total Score = 73,143 Club: DELARA Contest Team Comments: Got delayed on getting started on time on Friday, but when I did get on I [...]
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KQ8RP CQ WW 160 Meter CW Contest Results
Call: KQ8RP Operator(s): No prescription KQ8RP Station: KQ8RP Class: Single Op LP QTH: OH Operating Time (hrs): Summary: Total: QSOs = 355 State/Prov Professional = 54 Countries = 10 Total Score = 53,696 Club: DELARA Contest Team This may be my first time working this CW contest. Most of the time I am up the [...]
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KQ8RP NAQP SSB Contest Results
Found the time to work the NAQP SSB contest this weekend. Had a lot of fun on 40 meters and 75. I don’t have a beam and just could not get going on the high bands. I check 10m but no signals there. Made a few contacts on 15 as well as 20m should have [...]
Tags: DELARA Contest Team, Ham Contest, kq8rp, NAQP, ssb contest
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KQ8RP Ohio QSO Party
OQP is always a fun contest to work with always a great turnout of activity. I have missed working it in past few years so it was nice to take part in it. I recently joined Delaware Amateur Radio Club so it was nice to participate as a team in this contest. I worked all [...]
Tags: DELARA, DELARA Contest Team, Ham Contest, Ohio QSO Party, OQP
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KQ8RP ARRL 10 Meter Contest
This was first time I worked the ARRL 10 meter contest in years. Before I moved to Ohio when I lived in Kentucky with a 70 foot tower and a KLM KT34XA antenna it was just more fun to work. The antenna system we used this time around was a 1/2 wave 160 meter Inverted [...]
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KQ8RP NAQP CW Contest Results
This was the first time working this contest on cw as well as first time using N1MM logger. I didn’t have much time to put into the contest had a DELARA Holiday Party to attend as well and didn’t want to miss that event. Food was fabulous. I downloaded N1MM logger earlier in the week [...]
Tags: DELARA Contest Team, flex 5000, kq8rp, N1MM, NAQP
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Delaware Amateur Radio Association
Listening on 10 meters awhile back I heard K8MP call CQ so I quickly responded to say hello. K8MP was a call I recognized from some of the contest I have been in and he had a loud signal on 10 meters. He introduced himself as Joe and then I recalled chatting with him before [...]
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