[MiQP-Mail] Posting from Todd, N9NE

[David Pruett]

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Subject: 	Posting?
Date: 	Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:52:32 -0500
From: 	Todd Fonstad <tfonstad at gmail.com>
To: 	David Pruett <k8cc at comcast.net>



/Dave,

I was unable to post this to the MIQP reflector so am asking if you 
would do this for me.

Sorry not to have been able to run mobile this year, but it's nothing 
against MI, as I also did not run mobile in our own WIQP last month for 
health reasons (still recuperating).

Hope to be around for next year's run!/ /

73
Todd
N9NE

p.s. I'll get my sorry log to the club in the next few days.


Please post this if possible:/


Greetings,

I stayed put here in the sticks of central WI after deciding a long 
round-trip to the UP in addition to the 12 hours of solo-mobile 
operation was a bit much this year. I am recovering from back surgery, 
and Friday night and Saturday turned out to be winter (either late or 
early....) with sleet, snow, and high winds.  Gas prices are running 
amok again. Running mobile in the rarer western UP counties has always 
been a 'high', but the contest here was not a thing of joy ... sorry!  
My antennas and the ladderline to the 176' doublet were iced over at the 
beginning of the event, resulting in high SWR. 40M was really the only 
band open, although I did make a number of contacts on 75/80 later on. 
It appears that 20M was in fine shape, but of course that didn't help us 
inside the skip zone. I just couldn't get mentally cranked up for this 
one and probably put in 5 or 6 hours of on-and-off operation.

The absence of four 'usual' mobiles that I can think of off the top of 
my head -NE9U, WI9WI, W1NN, and myself- probably didn't help the MIQP 
overall. Hats off to the 'regulars' who made the trip.

It was a joy to hear and work the young folks at various stations ... 
welcome to the hobby!

Here's my sorry stats. Setup was a K3 at 100W to the doublet and a 40M 
yagi at 70'.  Oh yes ... I use N1MM and discovered to my chagrin halfway 
through the contest that I had 'QSY erases QSO' selected. When I failed 
to log the contact by hitting enter before making a QSY, the contact was 
not recorded. I kept running into folks telling me that we had duped, 
and I finally figured out what was going on. Probably lost 10 to 20 
contacts that way.

SUMMARY:

   Band       CW             SSB

     80         24               13
     40         58               48
     20          1                 0

 TOTAL      83               61

 SCORE:    77 Sections  =  17,479 points

Next year ... we hit the road again!
73
Todd
N9NE
Amherst, WI