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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> What a fun day. Here's my report posted on 3830.</FONT></DIV>
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Michigan QSO Party<BR><BR>Call: N0IJ<BR>Operator(s): N0IJ<BR>Station:
N0IJ<BR><BR>Class: Single Op HP<BR>QTH: WISCONSIN<BR>Operating Time (hrs): 9.75
S/B 10.75<BR><BR>Summary:<BR>Band CW Qs Ph
Qs<BR>--------------------<BR> 80:
70 92<BR> 40:
63 83<BR> 20:
4 0<BR>
15:
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10:
<BR>--------------------<BR>Total: 137 175 CW
Mults = 60 Ph Mults = 64 Total Score = 55,676<BR><BR>Club: Minnesota
Wireless Association<BR><BR>Comments:<BR><BR>This one just about didn't
happen! On my way out to my lake station in far NW<BR>Wisconsin (36 miles
from home in Duluth, MN) had serious flat tire and ended up<BR>losing over an
hour at the start and the resultant loss of a few counties. In<BR>spite of
that downer, had a great time and it was lots of fun jumping from CW<BR>to
SSB. Only a good antenna and high power allowed the 4 contacts on 20
with<BR>the predictable big fixed stations, so was surprised I did as well as I
did. <BR>Used low (50') rotatable dipole on 40 and my only antenna on 80 is a 4
Square,<BR>which surprisingly did pretty well for this close in stuff. It
didn't take<BR>long once I got on to figure out that the guy to beat from
outside was N4PN. <BR>Played catch up and almost made it, but think Paul
probably came out on top. <BR>Congrats, Paul. Would have been nice to have
20, but think I had some better<BR>opportunities on the low bands. Enjoyed
following the mobiles using the<BR>schedule from K8DD (thanks), but never heard
WI9WI! All the rest were pretty<BR>much on schedule. Couldn't hear
the UP guys for the first 2-3 hours (2 almost<BR>esp Q's with K8IR and NE9U
excepted), but they really came through in the later<BR>times. Jim, K8MR,
was strong 95% of the time and his abilities and<BR>resourcefullness are really
amazing! The mobiles obviously made the contest<BR>really fun, and all are
to be commended for a long day and good work. <BR><BR>Mobiles stats
are: K8MR 33q'S IN 16 COUNTIES, 20CW/13PH, K8IR 18 IN 12<BR>(13C/5P), NE9U
17 IN 10 (10C/7P), W8CAR 12 IN 7 (10C/2P) **noticed you only had<BR>6 phone q's
so honored to have 2 of these!), N9NE 7 IN 3 (4C/3P), W8JJ 5 IN 5<BR>ALL CW,
W8RU 3 IN 2 (1C/2P). All the mobiles were very willing to go to
the<BR>other mode when conditions allowed, which was really helpful, hopefully
to us<BR>both. <BR><BR>I probably did more mult moving in this contest
than I have ever done! Nice<BR>showing by the fixed stations as ssb cqing
quite worthwhile. Less so on cw.<BR><BR>Not sure how to rate conditions,
but heard EU stations calling the fixed guys<BR>and K8MR on 20, 40 and even 80.
80 did get noisy at times.<BR><BR>All in all, a very fun contest and hats off to
MRRC as sponsor. Thanks for all<BR>the Q's. <BR><BR>73<BR>John,
N0IJ<BR></DIV>
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