Contesting

The North American QSO Party, CW - DELARA was in the mix: Super good job Joe!!! CONGRATS! I know for me, it's tough handling 35 wpm code for 8 hours. I think they get faster each contest! I spent more time than you but mine was 99.9% S&P. (See attached statistical summary). I worked 46 of 50 states and 33 of them were in the first three hours! You probably did even better. Just goes to show anyone interested in going for WAS or related North America wall paper that contests are the way it can be done in a weekend. 73 - Dale W8KTQ NAQPCW Summary Sheet Start Date : 2022-08-06 CallSign Used : W8KTQ Operator(s) : W8KTQ Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Assisted Category : NON-ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : Dale OH Gridsquare : EN80 Name : Dale Bauer Address : 3120 N Three Bs and K Road City/State/Zip : Sunbury OH 43074 Country : USA ARRL Section : OH Club/Team : Delaware Contest Team Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.9635.0 Band QSOs Pts Sec Mt2 Pt/Q 1.8 23 23 14 0 1.0 3.5 34 34 19 0 1.0 7 101 101 36 1 1.0 14 119 119 38 2 1.0 21 32 32 11 1 1.0 28 16 16 9 0 1.0 Total 325 325 127 4 1.0 Score : 42,575 On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 12:03 PM Joe K8MP via groups.io <K8mp=aol.com@groups.io> wrote: I got 8 hours in. I made QSOs on all six bands and worked HAI-Tom twice and KV8Q-Tom 3 times. 2022 NCJ NORTH AMERICAN QSO PARTY CW Call used: K8MP Location: OH Category: Single-Op Mode: CW Power: Low Callsign of Operator(s): K8MP Exchanged Information: K8MP JOE OH Hours of Operation: 08:06 band QSOs points mults -------------------------------------------- 160 29 29 15 80 178 178 35 40 218 218 43 20 102 102 30 15 118 118 29 10 31 31 11 ------------------------------------------------ TOTAL 676 676 163 SCORE: 110,188 From Mark, AA5TA That's a lot of names to decode.:) Maybe an award coming? My usual modus operandi... Set "hamalert" software to ping my phone for missing states relevant to CW 5BWAS. Wait for pings; check radio; if heard, work 'em. Logged about a dozen. Big fish for me was North Dakota on 80M (with wimpy low antenna). Forgot about 100W limit and was using amp.:( Stay out of jail..."check log" submitted...:)