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Lettuce start stumping the wilderness for home station
operations from each of the 83 counties in Michigan for MIQP
2012? At least, have a "Rover" in each of the counties for
significant a significant part of the day, when propagation is
favorable to various parts of the country.<br>
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Pennsylvania (and California) could be eggzamples of such
operations. I believe there were several folks in the CQP who
worked all the counties, and I see many folks bragging that they
made all counties in Pennsylvania this weekend.<br>
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A mobile, with a mobile antenna, can be heard, but a portable,
or rover, type operation with even a modest horizontal antenna
(like the 130' doublet I've put up at between 30 and 70' in
various portable operations in recent years, will do much much
better, and be able to present a better chance for folks.<br>
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Of course, with only 12 hours in one day, MiQP (and OHQP)
suffers more from vagaries of propagation, but it would be a
real stretch to try to spread MIQP to more than one day, so I'm
not proposing anything but a concerted effort, through regular
attendance in nets, etc., to start NOW to drum up a much larger
contingent of home/fixed portable stations for 2012.<br>
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73 de n8xx Hg<br>
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