Some CQP After-Thoughts about CQP

 

 

 

 

It often seems that more time is spent organizing s CQP event and documenting the aftermath afterwards than is actually spent running the radio(s) during the CQP event itself.  Leading up
to this year's event was the idea of reprising last year's CQP event from Alameda County.  

This year, organizing an Alameda County event became way too complicated, leading me to take
the easy way out and run some sort of operation from CCOS (Contra Costa) County, while putting
in a few hours remotely with the 1st-place NX6T operation out of Anza (RIVE county).  At least,for Contra Costa, the equipment and antennas were largely already set up.

Running as K6Q (W6Q had already been reserved), I managed to surpass the LP (Low Power) category record set by WQ6X back in 2017.  Being curious about QRP created the backdrop for putting WQ6X on the air to set an initial SO9A) QRP county record - it turns out that had never
been done before.

When it was all over, the WQ6X operation DiD set two new county records (pending verification
by the CQP contest committee of course), while the NX6T operation took a resounding 1st-place
for the multi-single classification for California.

While this CQP hardly ran as expected (they rarely do), ad-libbing things every step of the way resulted in a result that surpassed even my expectations, while adding yet another learning experience to the annals of WQ6X contest operations.  Overall, it doesn't really matter what
I do during any given radiosport weekend, as long as I am doing it on the air.

What about YOU?

What kind of learning experiences in radiosport have YOU enjoyed?