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Lettuce start stumping the wilderness for home station
operations from each of the 88 counties in Ohio for OHQP 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, </font></font><font
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vagaries of propagation, but it would be a real stretch to try
to spread OHQP to more than one day, so I'm not proposing
anything but a concerted effort, through regular attendance in
nets, visits to Radio Clubs, 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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