Ohio QSO Party
Call: K8MR/R
Operator(s): K8MR, W8DRZ
Station: K8MR
Class: Rover LP
QTH: 13 Counties
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 70 57
40: 362 140
20: 149 37
15: 3 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 584 234 CW Mults = 71 Ph Mults = 76 Total Score = 204,692
Club: Northern Ohio DX Association
Comments:
By County:
CW SSB
MAHO 62 24
COLU 22 10
CARR 32 4
JEFF 40 48
HARR 38 10
GUER 53 13
BELM 38 11
MONR 72 40
NOBL 61 11
WASH 44 8
MORG 66 54
MUSK 29 0
TUSC 30 1
Total 584 234
MULTS
Cty 32 39
States 39 36 146 Total
Since in our mobile efforts we typically spend 3 to 4 hours operating while
parked, I've often figured that a few minutes spent erecting a dipole to get
another 3 or so S-units on 40 or 80 would be well spent. With the Rover class,
I think we've now confirmed that. This year we spent about 6 hours stopped, as
reported by the GPS unit.
We set up a fixed antenna - a dipole at 25 feet or so at the center, maybe 6
feet at the ends - in four counties, MAHO, JEFF, MONR, and MORG. (Well, except
for the first stop, W8DRZ set them up). It was great to be able to run stations
on SSB, although the JEFF and MONR stops were during the period of poor in state
propagation. Probably 20 of the SSB counties would not have been worked with
mobile antennas, though only a couple of SSB states were a direct gain.
It was wonderful to have some good conditions for a change. Half an hour before
the contest I heard W8FT warming up on 40, very weak. I figured it would be
another typical OQP weekend, but once we were set up 5 minutes before the start
we lined up a bunch of loud close guys like AD8J/STAR, K8NZ, and WT8C. 20 was
also a big surprise, where we worked a number of SW OH stations with good
signals in the first two hours. I tried 15 a couple of times, but worked only
K4MF in FL twice and WA8ZBT in TX once.
A new addition to the mobile setup was a full time 75/80 antenna, a Hustler 75M
resonator that could be capacity hat loaded for 80 CW. That was responsible for
a modest number of daytime/early evening 75 meter phone qsos.
The MORG stop was at the Miner's Memorial Park OH 78 east of McConellsville.
One end of the 80 meter dipole was held up by a string thrown over the side of
the 240 cubic yard drag line bucket.
Thanks to all for making this a good time. See you in OQP 2006!
73 - Jim & Jim K8MR - W8DRZ
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