[MiQP-Mail] AD8J/M Report

AD8J ad8j.1 at comcast.net
Mon Apr 17 12:40:16 CDT 2006


My input is about the same as has already been posted 
by the other mobile stations.  I ended up with 310 CW
Q's and 13 SSB Q's as a solo mobile operation.  Total
score was only 41,141 mainly due to a lack of phone
mults.  It was hard to get any good runs going.  A pileup 
was usually only two stations.  Calling CQ on SSB got 
very few replies and calling other stations rarely resulted 
in a contact.  I called K8XXX from multiple locations on
both modes and he could never hear me.  

As a solo mobile I wanted to minimize the distance that
I had to drive.  My main operating location was the
corner where four counties came together.  There were
two dirt roads that separated the counties.  So it only 
took about two minutes to drive the required distance
for changing counties.  I did make the 40 minute drive
to add two additional counties around sunset.  I then 
returned to my four county area to operate after dark 
on 80 meters.

On Friday I'm driving to Florida to give their contest
a try and to visit my Dad in Vero Beach.  If conditions
are similar to this past weekend, look for me as a
rover, with an inverted vee on 40/20 and not a mobile.  

John Getz, AD8J




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