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Michigan QSO Party<BR><BR>Call: K8MR/M<BR>Operator(s): K8MR, W8DRZ<BR>Station:
K8MR<BR><BR>Class: Mobile Multi-Op LP<BR>QTH: 22 Counties<BR>Operating Time
(hrs): 12<BR><BR>Summary:<BR>Band CW Qs Ph
Qs<BR>--------------------<BR> 80: 90
17<BR> 40: 217 47<BR> 20:
111 18<BR> 15: 3
3<BR> 10: 1
1<BR>--------------------<BR>Total: 422 86 CW
Mults = 63 Ph Mults = 32 Total Score = 88,350<BR><BR>Club: Mad River
Radio Club<BR><BR>Comments:<BR><BR>By county:<BR><BR>
CW SSB<BR>SANI 12 0<BR>HURO 17
2<BR>TUSC 27 6<BR>BAY 20
7<BR>SAGI 14 8<BR>MIDL 25
11<BR>GLAD 26 7<BR>OGEM 9
3<BR>ROSC 9 1<BR>CRAW 18
6<BR>KALK 20 6<BR>GRTR 14
0<BR>WEXF 18 7<BR>MISS 24
2<BR>OSCE 22 3<BR>CLAR 33
0<BR>ISAB 13 4<BR>GRAT 28
2<BR>CLIN 14 4<BR>INGH 17
1<BR>JACK 15 3<BR>WASH 16
3<BR><BR>Multipliers:<BR> CW
SSB<BR>MI 24 11<BR>OUT
39 21<BR><BR>Nice earth weather, bad space weather. Other
than very local qsos, I had only<BR>two in state qsos on 40 meters, with N9EZ
way out in GOGE.<BR><BR>I did have fun running the bands with K8GL from BAY,
SAGI, and MIDL, good for 23<BR>qsos from those 3 counties. The 10 meter
qsos were with the 75/20/15 antenna<BR>and a huge SWR, but when you're 8 miles
away you can get away with that. That<BR>was probably my best rate in the first
7 hours. And the guy even fed us breakfast 7 hours earlier!<BR><BR>75 meters
saved the multiplier day, with 9 of my 11 MI SSB mults there. Thanks<BR>to those
who QSY'd to give me mults on SSB, including K3TM, N3DXX, K4DJ, KN5H,<BR>KO7X,
K0JPL, and K0RI. Unfortunately I couldn't talk K4WW, K5OT, or K8JQ
into<BR>moving, and I couldn't find N4JF when we moved. <BR><BR>With the high
geomagnetic activity and high gas prices, it worked out to about<BR>25 cents per
qso. But for a good day of mobile contesting, it's priceless.<BR><BR>CU in the
Ohio QSO Party on Saturday, August 26.<BR><BR><BR>73 -
Jim K8MR</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>