Michigan QSO Party
Call: N8Q
Operator(s): N8XX
Station: N8XX
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: NEWAygo
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 52 63
40: 13 3
20: 7 6
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 82 72 CW Mults = 45 Ph Mults = 46 Total Score = 21,476
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
Total operating time about 8 hours - started a bit after 1 p.m. - ended at a bit
after 9 p.m. with a couple breaks to get some coffee at the local gas station
and to do a bit of sight seeing along the Kalamazoo river - with two
Hydroelectric dams!
Cold, windy, but nice park. Found that there WAS a 110 VAC outlet, so things
worked out easier than I figured. Temperature was cool when I started setting
up, got colder during the day, with winds reported over 30 MPH. I stay inside
my van for operating, it was warm and out of the wind, though the wind shook
things from time to time.
Rig was my trusty Drake TR-5, cranked down to <5 Watts, using a Heath QRP
wattmeter as the judge.
Antenna was a 80 metre dipole, sorta an inverted V, up 40 feet in the middle
fed with 450 ohm ladder line, tuned with a 1960's era Johnson Matchbox.
When I fired up the computer to run CW, the thing barfed when I plugged in the
USB to COM port adapter - don't understand this but it must mean I didn't use
it for contesting since a hard drive cra$hed. Without internet connection I
couldn't find the driver, so had to use a trusty olde Vibroplex bug for
sending. Apologies to the newbies who have trouble reading my "Lake Erie
Swing." :)
80/75 was the workhorse, for a while I could "run" on 40 or 20 CW, but bands
were kinda rotten for QRP. I "ran" on both 80 and 75 - very surprising to me
for QRP to command responses on phone. 75 phone beat out 80 CW for the first
time for my effort. For a while it was "wall to wall" almost, from about 3780
to >3850 KHz with stations operating MiQP.
KD8HNF came up to operate at the same spot mobile/fixed, so I got one NEWAygo
county contact and a phone multiplier.
Don't think the N8Q call was a help - especially with QRP - many folks asked
for "fills" on the "Q" station - so N8XX probably would have had similar
results. However, using a 1X1 is fun to this casual contester!
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