{"id":560,"date":"2013-10-01T05:40:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotearc.net\/?p=560"},"modified":"2013-10-01T05:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T05:40:47","slug":"2013-texas-qso-party-results-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotearc.net\/index.php\/2013\/10\/01\/2013-texas-qso-party-results-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Texas QSO party results &#8211; and more!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason KF5EJX and his (t)rusty sidekick Erik K5WW were active\u00a0in the TX QSO party\u00a0from the club station this past weekend. KN5S was\u00a0well-received and received well all over the USA &#8211; and in some other countries!<\/p>\n<p>We made 251 QSOs in\u00a034 states, 2 Canadian provinces\u00a0and even one fella in the Slovak Republic for a total of 62,742\u00a0 points:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_565\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"size-full wp-image-565  \" title=\"TXQP 2013 score\" alt=\"TXQP 2013 score\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TXQP-2013-score.png?resize=277%2C274\" width=\"277\" height=\"274\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TXQP 2013 score<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yes, I know, the screen image says &#8220;60,742&#8221;; but I manually added 2,000 bonus points because we logged 2 mobile (&#8220;rover&#8221;) stations in 5 or more counties, and 1 station in more than 10 different counties!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_569\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TXQP-2013-mults.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-569 \" title=\"TXQP 2013 mults\" alt=\"TXQP 2013 mults\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TXQP-2013-mults-300x158.png?resize=300%2C158\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TXQP 2013 mults &#8211; you should click this one.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This was Texas size fun! Unfortunately Mother Nature didn&#8217;t seem to approve of what we were doing; and had to take us off the air for an hour or two. Rain, rain, and more rain!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_571\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130928_182514.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-571 \" title=\"As always - click for the full-size version\" alt=\"Rain, again.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20130928_182514-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But the Texas QSO Party is not the only contest we participated in! There also was the CQ WW RTTY contest; and of course we had to try our new callsign there too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We made 128 QSOs for a total of 30,132 points. No extra bonus points in this one:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_567\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-567  \" title=\"CQWW RTTY 2013 score\" alt=\"CQWW RTTY 2013 score\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CQWW-RTTY-2013-score.png?resize=277%2C274\" width=\"277\" height=\"274\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CQWW RTTY 2013 score<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. states and Canadian provinces do count as score multipliers, though! Here&#8217;s what we accomplished:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_568\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CQWW-RTTY-2013-states.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-568 \" title=\"Click for the big picture!\" alt=\"CQWW RTTY 2013 states\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CQWW-RTTY-2013-states-300x98.png?resize=300%2C98\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">States and provinces worked in the 2013 CQWW RTTY contest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0And other countries (I should say &#8220;DXCC entities&#8221;) count as score multipliers too:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_566\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CQWW-RTTY-2013-mults.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-566 \" title=\"Click for the big version.\" alt=\"CQWW RTTY 2013 mults\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coyotearc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CQWW-RTTY-2013-mults-300x154.png?resize=300%2C154\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DXCC entities contacted in the 2013 CQ WW RTTY contest.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Big fun!!! Gotta do this again next year! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to the <strong>many<\/strong> visitors who stopped by to cheer us on!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason KF5EJX and his (t)rusty sidekick Erik K5WW were active\u00a0in the TX QSO party\u00a0from the club station this past weekend. KN5S was\u00a0well-received and received well all over the USA &#8211; and in some other countries! 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