Florida QSO Party
Call: WI9WI
Operator(s): WI9WI
Station: WI9WI
Class: SOABMixed HP
QTH: Winter, WI
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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40: 35 0
20: 272 26
15: 148 17
10: 6 0
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Total: 461 43 CW Mults = 67 Ph Mults = 25 Total Score = 88,178
Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
Comments:
Most time I've spent in this one. Fun chasing the mobiles. Got my sweep at 0009Z
on day one, but had to wait until I got W4MR in CLR early Sunday morning for the
CW sweep. Had at least 2 QSOs with every county.
Band conditions from northern WI were pretty good. Forty was good late
Saturday, but quit very early Sunday morning. Twenty was open the whole time,
but was up and down. At times stations would just disappear. Fifteen was open
the whole time with big signals, but activity seemed concentrated on twenty.
Ten opened barely late Sunday morning. Other trips there were totally
non-productive.
Kudos to all the great mobile operators. Top honors went to the K4OJ
multi-multi wagon with 78 QSOs. They were followed by W4MR with 42, AD4ES 42,
W5WMU 31, NO5W 30, K5NA 29, W4AN 26, N4FP 25, K1XX 25, KN4Y 23, and N4CW 8. I
only had a few SSB QSOs with the mobiles. I had a hard time finding them, and
when I did signals were very weak with only a couple of exceptions.
A couple of observations. First many (not all) of the mobile stations went way
too many QSOs without identifying. I'm not talking about 4 or 5 or 6, but in
some cases over 10. I actually counted one who went 14 QSOs without ID. I don't
care who you are, this is very poor operating practice. Second, almost all of
the fixed stations stayed out of the mobile window. However, there were several
who plopped down right smack in the middle of the mobile window for hours. I'm
not talking a half of a kHz from the edge. One did an excellent job of totally
obliterating a couple of weak mobiles on 15. I'm aware that not everyone reads
the complete rules before every contest, I know I don't, and I doubt many do.
So it may be they are just uninformed. Perhaps a gentle message from the
contest committee could remind them not to do this in the future.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs.
Jim
WI9WI
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