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<div>Michigan QSO Party</div>
<div>Call: DM5EE<br/>
Operator(s): DM5EE<br/>
Station: DM5EE</div>
<div>Class: Single Op LP<br/>
QTH: DX<br/>
Operating Time (hrs): 6</div>
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<div>Summary:</div>
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<div>Band CW Qs Ph Qs<br/>
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80:<br/>
40: 1 0<br/>
20: 44 18<br/>
15:<br/>
10:<br/>
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Total: 45 18 CW Mults = 31 Ph Mults = 13 Total Score = 4,752</div>
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<div>Club: Bavarian Contest Club</div>
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<div>Comments:</div>
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<div>This year's MIQP was different. Aside from somewhat forseeable circumstances (DF9LJ's station not available, family obligations on Saturday and Sunday) I had to get rid of my gall bladder on Wednesday. Got home from the hospital on<br/>
Saturday morning, so a limited participation was possible but no full effort.</div>
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<div>I did some rerouting of antenna cables before the contest which may have been the cause for some keying issued experienced during MIQP. Sorry for the occasional QSD as the internal keyer of the FT-1000MP kept acting up.</div>
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<div>My plan was to go Low Power. Originally, I thought of tackling the DX Low Power record, but with the recent surgery this wasn't going to happen. Still gave it a try.</div>
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<div>The contest started slow and conditions seemed to be mediocre at best. I had S9 local noise on 15 and never heard anyone there or on 10. 20m yielded only four QSOs in the first hour. I took a two hour break to participate in some Easter-related event in our village and found signals to be much better after 19z. Over the next two hours, 34 QSOs came in the log, then things slowed down. It was nice to have K8IR, W8UE, W8ZZ and K8MAD as mobiles for some fresh meat every once in a while. Hank/N8M made it into the log QRP on both modes as well as KT8K and W8CUB on CW.</div>
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<div>Except for one QSO, everything happened on 20 for me. K8MAD was the only QSO on 40. I think that N8SS heard me too but the tremendous level of digital QRM between 7041 and 7050kHz in EU did not allow for the completion of a QSO. When K8IR could not copy me from BENZ county, I figured that 20 was closing. At 2:30am local (0030z) it was definitely time to QRT. 40m was still completely trashed between 7041 and 7050. I heard N4PN, WO1N and K8JQ call MI stations on 40 but never could detect the other side in the digital mud. Maybe, the QRM would have gotten better towards our sunrise but I could not check it out this year.</div>
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<div>I ended up with 63 QSOs during six hours of operation and a score which came up 20% short of my original goal, the DX Low Power record.</div>
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<div>Hope to see you again next year,</div>
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<div>73! Uli, DM5EE</div>
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<div>Equipment: FT-1000MP, Cushcraft X7 clone at 55ft with 30/40m add-on dipole.<br/>
N1MM without transceiver interface.</div>
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