[MiQP-Mail] N0IJ SOHP Wisconsin

[Idle-Tyme]

This was my First time in this test,
And gave up after a while for what i thought was lack of activity,,, but 
from what I'm seeing here, I should have stuck it out.

Call: W9ET
Operator(s): Joe WB9SBD
Station: W9ET Driftless Zone Contesters

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: WISCONSIN
Operating Time (minutes) 121  (2 hours)

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
    80:   24          38
    40:   10         29
    20:    0         0
    15:    0         0
    10:    0         0
--------------------
Total: QSO points  135
53 total Mults = final score 7155

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On 4/18/2010 5:36 PM, JBaumgarte at aol.com wrote:
>  What a fun day.  Here's my report posted on 3830.
>                    Michigan QSO Party
>
> Call: N0IJ
> Operator(s): N0IJ
> Station: N0IJ
>
> Class: Single Op HP
> QTH: WISCONSIN
> Operating Time (hrs): 9.75 S/B 10.75
>
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> --------------------
>    80:   70     92
>    40:   63     83
>    20:    4      0
>    15:
>    10:
> --------------------
> Total:  137    175  CW Mults = 60  Ph Mults = 64  Total Score = 55,676
>
> Club: Minnesota Wireless Association
>
> Comments:
>
> This one just about didn't happen!  On my way out to my lake station 
> in far NW
> Wisconsin (36 miles from home in Duluth, MN) had serious flat tire and 
> ended up
> losing over an hour at the start and the resultant loss of a few 
> counties.  In
> spite of that downer, had a great time and it was lots of fun jumping 
> from CW
> to SSB.  Only a good antenna and high power allowed the 4 contacts on 
> 20 with
> the predictable big fixed stations, so was surprised I did as well as 
> I did.
> Used low (50') rotatable dipole on 40 and my only antenna on 80 is a 4 
> Square,
> which surprisingly did pretty well for this close in stuff.  It didn't 
> take
> long once I got on to figure out that the guy to beat from outside was 
> N4PN.
> Played catch up and almost made it, but think Paul probably came out 
> on top.
> Congrats, Paul.  Would have been nice to have 20, but think I had some 
> better
> opportunities on the low bands.  Enjoyed following the mobiles using the
> schedule from K8DD (thanks), but never heard WI9WI!  All the rest were 
> pretty
> much on schedule.  Couldn't hear the UP guys for the first 2-3 hours 
> (2 almost
> esp Q's with K8IR and NE9U excepted), but they really came through in 
> the later
> times.  Jim, K8MR, was strong 95% of the time and his abilities and
> resourcefullness are really amazing!  The mobiles obviously made the 
> contest
> really fun, and all are to be commended for a long day and good work.
>
> Mobiles stats are:  K8MR 33q'S IN 16 COUNTIES, 20CW/13PH, K8IR 18 IN 12
> (13C/5P), NE9U 17 IN 10 (10C/7P), W8CAR 12 IN 7 (10C/2P) **noticed you 
> only had
> 6 phone q's so honored to have 2 of these!), N9NE 7 IN 3 (4C/3P), W8JJ 
> 5 IN 5
> ALL CW, W8RU 3 IN 2 (1C/2P).  All the mobiles were very willing to go 
> to the
> other mode when conditions allowed, which was really helpful, 
> hopefully to us
> both.
>
> I probably did more mult moving in this contest than I have ever 
> done!  Nice
> showing by the fixed stations as ssb cqing quite worthwhile.  Less so 
> on cw.
>
> Not sure how to rate conditions, but heard EU stations calling the 
> fixed guys
> and K8MR on 20, 40 and even 80. 80 did get noisy at times.
>
> All in all, a very fun contest and hats off to MRRC as sponsor.  
> Thanks for all
> the Q's.
>
> 73
> John, N0IJ
>
>
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