Alabama QSO Party - 2019
Call: W4AN/M
Operator(s): K4BAI KU8E
Station: W4AN/M
Class: Mobile Multi-OpCW LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 72
40: 304
20: 241
15:
10:
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Total: 617 0 CW Mults = 54 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 66,636
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
We met up with both AB4B and W4NZ at the Huntsville Hamfest this year and both
mentioned they needed help activating counties in the Tennessee and Alabama QSO
Parties. So John (K4BAI) and I took two extra rover trips this year.
We ended up activating 24 Alabama counties. We had planned a few more counties
but we started getting intermittent high SWR during the last couple hours on
both of our mobile antennas and had to stop several times to troubleshoot that.
That put us behind and we were 1 1/2 hours away from home when the contest
ended.
The antenna setup is two magnet mounts (3 magnets on the antenna mount) on the
trunk of John's Toyota Avalon. I have a nice ground that goes to the bracket for
the muffler. We used Hustler 80 and 40 meter resonators and a 15 meter resonator
on 20 meters with the DX Engineering top hat. So we were able to QSY quickly
between two bands. The station is setup in the backseat of the car on and
operating table I built. We used a Kenwood TS-590SG with a Winkeyer. I ran an
audio cable from the radio to the audio input of the car radio so the driver
could listen when driving.
I think the antenna problem we had was cause by the wind load on the mobile mast
which caused it to partially unscrew from the bolt on the mobile mount. That
caused a bad connection. It was strange because when I stopped to look at it the
SWR went back to normal but when we got going again the problem returned. The
problem with the 2nd mount is probably because it's a MFJ that developed an
intermittent connection. Someday I will get all these problems we have had in
the past fixed. At least I solved the RF problem with the radio/computer that
has plagued us for years on 40 meters. Sometimes it's hard to tackle these
issues with the temporary setup we use.
John and I had fun despite our visit from Murphy. We had some unusually short
skip on 20 meters that helped our QSO totals on that band. We were also glad to
give John's old high school classmate W6OAT his last county in Alabama!
CU in the next one.
Jeff KU8E
RoverLocation Tot Accum
AUTA 14 14 14
BARB 21 21 35
BLOU 9 9 44
BULL 29 29 73
CHIL 40 40 113
CHOU 38 38 151
CKEE 31 31 182
CLAY 13 13 195
CLEB 19 19 214
CULM 24 24 238
DKLB 38 38 276
ELMO 5 5 281
ETOW 42 42 323
JEFF 40 40 363
JKSN 27 27 390
LIME 10 10 400
MACO 38 38 438
MDSN 30 30 468
MGMY 16 16 484
MORG 40 40 524
MRSH 32 32 556
RAND 24 24 580
RSSL 14 14 594
SHEL 23 23 617
Total 617 617 617
QSO Leaders
K9OM 32
K1TO 29
K0PC 19
K4BSK 19
K3WJV 18
WB9HFK 13
K5UV 17
NC4H 16
KM4HI 14
DL3DXX 13
W6OAT 13
K4BYN 12
W4EE 12
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