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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Michigan QSO Party</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Call: N8SS</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Operator(s): N8SS</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Station: N8SS</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Class: Single Op HP</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">QTH: WAYN</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Operating Time (hrs): 12</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Summary:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> Band CW Qs Ph Qs</FONT>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 80: 160 159</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 40: 162 117</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 20: 60 94</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 15: 1</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> 10: 1</FONT>
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<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Total: 382 392 CW Mults = 79 Ph Mults = 97 Total Score = 203,456</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Club: Blossomland Amateur Radio Association</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">There is no meters like 80 meters for this contest with another year of bottom of the cycle propagation. 20 never really got going for me and my hopes for anything on 15 and 10 were wasted. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">My worst out of the gate hour in 4 years. I didn't get one SSB QSO to move to CW though I did get KC8YEJ to move at least QRB and make my single contacts on 15 and 10.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Working N8M and seeing that he was ahead always gets me to bear down. I have a Sweepstakes mentality where I focus on rate and let the mults come. Looks like I need to work on my mult moving as I got smoked on multipliers. K2KW really kicked sand in my face by coming to Michigan and beating me with low power. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">All in all I still had a lot of fun. I really want to be able to do this contest when all the bands come into play. 75M didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth though I did run into some QRM from somebody on 40M. It was great to see all the activity from the Blossomland guys in Berrien County. In the QSO distribution in my log they were tied with Oakland county and I only had more QSOs with Washtenaw and Wayne counties. Go BARA!</FONT></P>
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