Georgia QSO Party
Call: W0BH
Operator(s): W0BH N4PN N6MU K0WHY
Station: W0BH
Class: Rover Multi-OpMixed LP
QTH: 73 GA counties
Operating Time (hrs): 19.3
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 305 0
40: 2026 113
20: 1158 302
15: 8 1
10:
6:
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Total: 3497 416 CW-Dig Mults = 50 Ph Mults = 40 Total Score = 666,900
Club:
Comments:
Paul/N4PN, John/N6MU, Lorna/K0WHY and I couldn't think of a better way to spend
a weekend in Georgia (well maybe Lorna could if we added bird-watching). The
goal was to break our 2013 record of 61 counties, and 73 seemed like a nice,
appropriate number. I mapped out a possible route and we were good to go. John
flew to Kansas from California and drove with us to Georgia. Paul and his
lovely wife, Martha, hosted all of us at their home in Macon.
I recently took out the middle seat and added a second station to the Astro
van, and it tested out great in the Missouri QSO Party. Both stations are
installed in milk crates and each included a radio, keyer, power booster, DC/DC
inverter for the logging computer, band decoder, filters, and antenna switching.
The Contest Update had a picture of the rear station and a link to our route map
in the April 6 edition. Antennas were all Hustler verticals on four different
mag mounts. All were tuned, so no tuner installed. Most equipment was powered
from four big deep-cycle batteries.
John and Paul held down the rear station in tag-team format which operated
40/15 mixed mode. They made mostly 40m contacts and tried 15m in longer
counties with little success even though it was open at times. I operated the
front station with 20 mixed/80CW. Conditions on 20 were poor until Sunday
afternoon. I made lots of noise-level CW contacts anyway, but SSB was hard to
find except for the quick-switch regulars. 80CW was a nice, loud, busy,
surprise Saturday evening. We all wished the party started and ended sooner on
Saturday, for mobile safety if nothing else.
Lorna did her usual masterful job of driving and held us to the GPS route and
schedule on both 500 mile days. We successfully completed the 73 county run,
and got close to 4000 contacts! We also made it back to Kansas safely, just
missing the big storms to our south. As you might guess, there is much more to
the story, but that will come out at a later time. So, to be continued ...
Afterwards
Thanks to SECC, SEDXC, and all involved who put on such an enjoyable QSO party.
And to all of you who worked us and followed us along, we couldn't have done it
without you! We had more than 100 contacts each with K9YC (68 counties) and
W7GKF (66 counties), and we were astounded to work DL3DXX 97 times from 66
counties including contacts on 80m! Would we do it again? We certainly would.
If we do, we hope ya'll will be there again for the ride!
73, Bob, Paul, John and Lorna
Stats
We operated 19.3 hours, 3958 combined raw Qs, 390 unique calls, 45 dupes, 3293
total miles from Kansas.
States not worked : VT ND DC HI AK UT WY
Canadian mults worked : NS QC ON BC NT NB PE
GA worked : 19 counties
GILM CHGA FANN GWIN WHIT FULT HNRY CATO CHER COBB
MCIN BIBB ECHO COWE RICH MUSC FORS CALH DKLB
DX worked : 13 countries
DL GM HA I KP3 OE OK OM ON SM UA XE YV
Unique mults: 51
CW mults: 50
PH mults: 40
Front seat : 1765 Qs
Rear seat : 2148 Qs
Five-hour Rates (includes dupes)
--------------- Both 20/80 40/15
Sat 1800-2300 : 179 - 81 -- 98
Sat 2300-0400 : 194 - 80 -- 114
Sun 1400-1900 : 156 - 76 -- 80
Sun 1900-2400 : 263 - 119 - 144
County Breakdown (in visited order)
Saturday (502 miles, 34 counties, 1865 contacts)
01 TLBT : 15 Talbot
02 TAYL : 19 Taylor
03 MARI : 44 Marion
04 SCHL : 55 Schley
05 MACO : 21 Macon
06 SUMT : 61 Sumter
07 LEE : 28 Lee
08 TERR : 63 Terrell
09 RAND : 37 Randolph
10 CALH : 54 Calhoun
11 BAKR : 45 Baker
12 EARL : 69 Early
13 MILL : 70 Miller
14 SEMI : 52 Seminole
15 DECA : 64 Decatur
16 GRAD : 54 Grady
17 THOM : 82 Thomas
18 BROK : 63 Brooks
19 LOWN : 81 Lowndes
20 ECHO : 66 Echols
21 LANI : 82 Lanier
22 CLCH : 36 Clinch
23 BERR : 38 Berrien
24 COOK : 69 Cook
25 COLQ : 87 Colquitt
26 WORT : 31 Worth
27 TIFT : 64 Tift
28 TURN : 64 Turner
29 CRIS : 62 Crisp
30 DOOL : 61 Dooly
31 HOUS : 60 Houston
32 PEAC : 51 Peach
33 CRAW : 48 Crawford
34 BIBB : 45 Bibb
Sunday (502 miles, 39 counties, 2093 contacts)
35 UPSO : 9 Upson
36 MNRO : 16 Monroe
37 LAMA : 42 Lamar
38 PIKE : 26 Pike
39 SPAL : 47 Spalding
40 FAYE : 26 Fayette
41 COWE : 64 Coweta
42 MERI : 61 Meriwether
43 TROU : 37 Troup
44 HEAR : 32 Heard
45 FULT : 43 Fulton
46 CLTN : 26 Clayton
47 DKLB : 43 DeKalb
48 ROCK : 35 Rockdale
49 NEWT : 49 Newton
50 WALT : 15 Walton
51 MORG : 62 Morgan
52 GREE : 51 Greene
53 TALI : 43 Taliaferro
54 WARR : 77 Warren
55 HANC : 55 Hancock
56 WASH : 33 Washington
57 GLAS : 67 Glascock
58 JEFF : 86 Jefferson
59 BURK : 58 Burke
60 JENK : 92 Jenkins
61 SCRE : 48 Screven
62 BULL : 121 Bulloch
63 EVAN : 70 Evans
64 CAND : 69 Candler
65 TATT : 53 Tattnall
66 EMAN : 81 Emanuel
67 TOOM : 46 Toombs
68 MONT : 41 Montgomery
69 TREU : 81 Treutlen
70 LAUR : 108 Laurens
71 BLEC : 59 Bleckley
72 WKSN : 47 Wilkinson
73 TWIG : 53 Twiggs
Special thanks to the following ops for 5 or (way) more contacts!
110: K9YC
103: W7GKF
97: DL3DXX
77: N5DO
68: K0PC
66: K1RO
60: VE9AA
58: K7IA N9CK
56: KM4FO
54: N4VV
53: W9RE
50: VE3KP
49: N2CU N5NA
48: AD4RE NW0M
47: K4BYN
46: KQ3F
44: W0GXQ
43: KM4HI
42: K4MM K5CM
41: AD1C K3TW
38: NF4A
37: AC5O
35: KI0I
34: K4QPL KM9R W4UT
32: K0HNC N8II WD0T
31: K0JPL W9IU
29: N4CW W7OM
27: K9CT W4YDY WA8ZBT
26: K9UIY W4PM
25: K8NYG
24: NU1O W8CAR
23: K0DEQ N4OX W4NZ
22: K0OU
21: W0SK W3WHK W4ML
20: DK2OY K9EN
19: AE8M N4DW W1END
18: AA3B KE0TT WB0PYF
17: AA7V WC7Q
16: AD4EB N1CC N3KN ON4AAC W4EE WN4AFP
15: AA4DD DL3GA K0TC K1TO K4WW K4XI K5KDG K9CW KS4X N1AIA N4UC W2CVW
14: AD8J DK3BN K0MPH K4AMC K8JQ K8MR KC3X N2IGW N4JT N8NA
13: N4RS UA3AGW VA3ATT
12: K4FJW K5KG K7ZYV N4TOL NE9U NU0Q
11: KA2BKG KO1U WB8JUI
10: K0PFV K1KX KE6US KI4MZC KS5A
09: AC4RE DM3ZF K9GDF KJ4AOM N9HDE NF0N OK1CF WB2WPM
08: K4HAL K4JAZ K4ORD K4RUM K6MR N5EIL W0GN W2GDJ W8OP WA1Z WD5F
07: AC0CU K2NV K5LH N3RJ NS9I OM5XX W1QK W4SIG W8TM WA6KHK WW9DX
06: AA8R K4EJ K4YFH K8RYU N1NN N3RM N4CD N4RJ N4TB N5IR W8WVU WA9LEY WB4ZBI
WO4O
05: AH6AX K1GQ K4BSK K4YT K8ZZ KT4Q N4WD N5AU N9NE ND4X W1FJ W9PR WA0JCO
WA1LIC
04: 24
03: 34
02: 56
01: 179
W0BH Award Winners
----------------- First Place - Very Honorable Mention ---------
Most overall Qs - K9YC/110 ---- W7GKF/103 -------- DL3DXX/97
Most CW Qs ------ DL3DXX/97 --- K9YC/73 ---------- W7GKF/68
Most PH Qs ------ K9YC/37 ----- W7GKF/35---------- K1RO/VE9AA/23
Most counties --- K9YC/68 ----- DL3DXX/W7GKF/66 -- N5DO/56
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Thanks to you all! 73
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