[FQP] N4S (VE3DZ & N4BP)

[BP]

            Florida QSO Party Score Summary Sheet

        Start Date : 2012-04-28

     CallSign Used : N4S
       Operator(s) : N4BP VE3DZ

Operator Category : MULTI-TWO
              Band : ALL
             Power : HIGH
              Mode : MIXED
  Default Exchange : BRO
        Gridsquare : EL96UD

              Name : Bob Patten
           Address : 2841 N.W. 112 Terrace
    City/State/Zip : Plantation  FL  33323
           Country : USA

      ARRL Section : SFL
         Club/Team : Florida Contest Group
          Software : N1MM Logger V12.4.2

         Band  Mode  QSOs     Pts  Sec
            7  CW     256     512    3
            7  LSB    201     201    1
           14  CW     494     988   67
           14  USB   1021    1020   47
           21  CW     276     552   22
           21  USB    353     353   62
           28  CW       1       2    0
           28  USB     10      10    1
        Total  Both  2612    3638  203


             Score : 738,514

               Rig : At N4BP: K3, AL-1500
                     At N8PR: IC-7600, LK-800C

          Antennas : At N4BP: A4S @ 65ft, 40/80 Trap Dipole @ 62ft
                     At N8PR: SteppIR, 2el 40M Yagi @ 70ft

           Soapbox : Saturday M/2, Sunday M/S
For our M/2 Saturday, we set up a band schedule and closely adhered to 
it to ensure we would not have both modes on the same band at any time. 
  That seemed to work perfectly, although we both alternated good hourly 
rates and not so good when we were forced off the ideal band.  RTTY: Not 
a problem.  I had one RTTY station try to set up on my run frequency of 
7036, but he moved within a minute and no further problem was 
experienced.  I doubt if anyone seriously attempting the 1X1 sweep 
missed it due to us.  We had both stations on for the full ten hours 
Saturday, and kept the M/S at home on for the other ten.  As so many 
others mentioned, conditions seemed much better on Saturday.  Of our 
2600 QSO's, nearly 2000 of them were on Saturday.  Since multipliers 
didn't contribute to the score, we tried to stick with bands that 
produced volume (mults shown on summary sheet anyhow, just out of 
curiosity).  Both the stations at home and at N8PR worked near perfectly 
with only a couple of very brief down times.  Our sincere thanks to 
Pete, N8PR for allowing me to invade his home on Saturday!  And lastly, 
Yuri VE3DZ is one fine SSB operator (For anyone who knows Yuri, they 
will realize I'm teasing him as we both consider ourselves CW ops!).
-- 
73,     Bob Patten, N4BP                Plantation, FL

E-Mail :   n4bp at arrl.net                Website: http://www.qsl.net/n4bp
SOC #1          ARS #799                QRP ARCI #3412       FISTS #7871
FP #1491                                SMIRK #6625