No, No, No. I am not trying to be hard on myself. I am a DOP - not a dope! I am a "Dispenser of Points". At least that's the role I took on in my participation in the QRP-ARCI Spring QSO Party today. Not out to win anything - just have fun and hand out points to the serious contenders.
This afternoon, on the higher bands, I though it was going to be a DX party. I was hearing and worked a few DX stations. EA2LU as I mentioned before on 15 Meters and HA7UG on 20 Meters. But right around dinner time 40 Meters livened up with activity and I started having some fun.
From there it was down to 80 Meters to work some closer in stations. Conditions were decent with lots of loud stations, but also a lot of loud static crashes. Then it was back to 40 Meters to see if it had gone long. And it did. I was able to work some farther away stations and now I am going to call it quits for the day.
The K2 and the EDZ did a fine job on 40 and 80 Meters. I am becoming more and more satisfied with it and do not have the yen to pull it down in place of anything else (at this point!).
Tomorrow will be a busy day and I'm not sure I'll get any air time. If that's the case, then that's all right as I had a lot of fun this evening.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
Larry, I don't think you're missing too much. The higher bands are not what they were just a few days ago and contest activity on 20/40 aren't what they typically are for the Fall version of this contest.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Bert and I am a enthousiast milliwatt and QRP CW operator. I visited your Blog via a link in the Blog of Paul PC4T.
I read with pleasure about the QRP-ARCI Spring QSO Party. Giving away points is also having fun yourself.
When I was starting as a HAM in the 1990's I used a homebrew Transceiver of 500 mW for 7 MHZ to make many QSO's all over Europe, during the 1990's.
From 2001 I use a FT-817. The use of more bands gives more point and leads to win Awards in the QRP Category of several big contest.
But I still have great FUN, using two homebrew transcievers, twice a year to particpate in the OQRP contest. The HM7 and the HDC14 to see on the PA1B QRPp page.
I still love this QRP contest.
In the last months I discovered the NAQCC monthly Challenge.
Yesterday I made the first two QSO's for the April Challenge. Both with more than 1000 Miles per Watt. hi
Thank you for writing about DOP operation,
Bert, PA1B