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<DIV>Michigan QSO Party<BR><BR>Call: NE9U<BR>Operator(s): NE9U KK9K
N9BCA<BR>Station: NE9U<BR><BR>Class: Mobile Multi-Op LP<BR>QTH: <BR>Operating
Time (hrs): 12<BR><BR>Summary:<BR> Band CW Qs Ph
Qs<BR>--------------------<BR> 80:
134 3<BR> 40:
513 108<BR> 20: 139
30<BR>
15:
<BR>
10:
<BR>--------------------<BR>Total: 786 141 CW
Mults = 76 Ph Mults = 63 Total Score = 236,439<BR><BR>Club: Central
Wisconsin Radio Amateurs<BR><BR>Comments:<BR><BR>Well, that was fun!<BR><BR>A
record setting year for the NE9U/m group. TRLog says we beat the old
MIQP<BR>mobile op record. K8MR smashed it though! Tough to match his
rate of running<BR>through a lot of the same guys in 30 counties compared to our
14, but we tried!<BR> :-)<BR><BR>Back in February, KK9K came up with an
idea for a new high gain vertical<BR>antenna for our mobile operation. We
built it and it worked so well we decided<BR>to give it a try in the MiQP.
For Michigan, since mults count on both modes, we<BR>decided to install a couple
more antennas for quick QSY to SSB. However never<BR>could get them to act
properly and after hours of last minute finagling, we<BR>gave up and only used
our one antenna all day long. Seemed to work OK. We<BR>also
attempted to use a few other new options, but in the end punted and used<BR>our
exact WQP setup. Seemed to work OK, but we have big plans for next year!
<BR>:-)<BR><BR>One of our new enhancements was to use KK9K's 1994 3 row seat
Suburban as our<BR>vehicle as itā?Ts much smoother and roomy that N9BCA's
Jeep. After punting on<BR>some of our radio/antenna enhancements we
started out for Ronā?Ts Cabin in<BR>Northern Wisconsin. About a 1/3 of the
way there, the exhaust system fell<BR>apart and we couldnā?Tt hear ourselves
think let alone copy Morse code! So<BR>unfortunately we had to turn around
and switch back to N9BCA's Jeep. Since it<BR>was already almost 9:00, we
decided to get our traditional Steak and call it an<BR>evening back in Stevens
Point.<BR><BR>The next morning we re-outfitted N9BCA's jeep and headed off to
Michigan about<BR>7:00 AM. Got into Iron County right before
kick-off. Since we had heard<BR>Gogebic and Ontonagon counties got dumped
on with snow Friday night, we revised<BR>our plans and drove counter-clockwise
around the U.P. instead of our original<BR>Clockwise plan to give the roads in
the western portion time to be plowed and<BR>melt. The idea worked out as
we had good roads all day long.<BR><BR>During the contest, everything went
pretty smooth. Wish the counties in the<BR>U.P. were smaller so we could
keep the rate meter up! But because we were in<BR>each county for a long
time, we were able to dig deeper into the pileups and I<BR>think we actually
out-multed K8MR.....it didnā?Tt compensate for his qso
totals<BR>though!<BR><BR>One of NE9U's highlights was being able to give SM7ZDI
his last Michigan County<BR>(Luce). In WQP we gave him his second to last
(Florence) and hope to give him<BR>his last this summer
(Menomonee).<BR><BR>N9BCA says this was about our 23rd year of doing QSO parties
together. Lots of<BR>fun experiences!<BR><BR>After the contest, we went
back towards KK9K's. On the way he cell phoned the<BR>local watering hole
and convinced them to stay open for us so we could get some<BR>of their world
famous Pizza and a couple 807's! Thank you to the PI Pub!<BR><BR>Thanks to
everyone for calling in. Hope to hear you all in 2014!<BR><BR>Scott
NE9U<BR>Ron KK9K<BR>Art N9BCA<BR><BR><BR>Posted using 3830 Score
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