As a single operator I must take a total of 2 hours out of the 12 hours of the contest off, so at 4pm PDT I started my two hour break. Unfortunately I am down 52 QSOs from the NAQP contest in February. 15M has been terrible, a total of 5 QSOs.
20M continues to dominate with 129 QSOs and 49 mults. Oddly enough 49 was how many mults I had in February, but I had an additional 36 QSOs at this point in time. So I am frustrated right now. I was never able to establish a good run on 20M. There were also too many 5+ minute periods of inactivity, either calling CQ, attempting to run or S&P.
We will see what 40 and 80M holds. If things hold up, 20M could be open late, but I am fairly good on mults there, so it will be working the low bands for the important mults. If I cannot hit my QSO goal, maybe I can make it up (somewhat) in mults. I'll be back on in about 2 hours (5pm PDT) to knock out my next five hours.
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