Georgia QSO Party
Call: W4AN/M
Operator(s): K4BAI, KU8E
Station: KU8E/M
Class: Rover LP
QTH: 36 counties in GA
Operating Time (hrs): 19:23
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 0 0
80: 233 0
40: 1448 33
20: 262 12
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
6: 0 0
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Total: 1933 44 CW Mults = 51 Ph Mults = 17 Total Score = 265,880
Club: Cols Amateur Rdo Club
Comments:
IC756ProII, 100 watts, Hustler mobile whip with top hats, MFJ travel tuner.
Storms passed by and rain stopped just before contest started. We ran
continuously except for a lunch break on Sunday. We had some rig and computer
problems, more bothersome than anything else. 20M was very poor on Saturday,
but a little better on Sunday. Skip was too long for anyone closer than IL
except for W9IU in IN and K4SAV in AL on scatter. 40M had longer skip in the
daytime and shortened up Saturday night. 40M conditions seemed below normal
for the most part with skip going very long earlier than in the past. OM2VL
and CU2JT had great signals on 20 and 40. First time we have tried 80M in GQP
(although Jeff did use 80 in an AQP). Band was much better than we had
expected and we worked as far west as AZ and BC on that band. Despite the cold
front having just moved through, QRN was negligible. We need to get a different
microphone for the rig, have an easier system for changing antennas/bands, and
get a different logging computer or at least new batteries for the one we used.
The clock stopped whenever we turned off the engine and we forgot to reset the
clock after our lunch stop on Sunday, so all QSOs after that time are 37
minutes early and I will have a job to do to change the times on all those
afternoon QSOs!
Our planned route took us through 47 counties and we actually made it to only
35 counties. We will be very sorry if someone else didn't operate from Terrell
and Lee, which were on our list, but not reached. We just couldn't bear to
leave a county and go into the next one while stations were still calling.
Thanks for all the QSOs and I hope we will find that all 159 counties were
active and that someone worked all or nearly all of them. Thanks also to every
GA station who got on and gave out contacts, in particular the mobiles, rovers,
and portables. I don't think there is any doubt that we had the best response
ever for a GQP and that in spite of generally pretty poor conditions.
Also thanks to all the DX stations who chased us in spite of the bad conditions
for DX. Those I recall now were: CU2JT, DL3DXX, DL3GA, DL5MC, DL8USA, G4RRA,
HA2MN, HA0IT, I4IKW, OK1AOV, OK1FA, OM2VL and another G station whose call
slips my mind right now.
Here is is the info on the county-by-county breakdown:
County Time CW Q PhQ CQ M Ph M Score 80C 40C 20C 40P 20P
BACN 0:24 66 0 23 0 3,036 0 66 0 0 0
BERR 0:17 39 0 21 0 1,638 0 30 9 0 0
BRAN 0:32 56 0 26 0 2,912 0 33 23 0 0
BROK 0:29 56 0 23 0 2,576 56 0 0 0 0
CALH 0:20 40 0 22 0 1,760 0 40 0 0 0
CHAR 0:48 67 14 29 12 6,068 0 40 25 5 9
CHAT 0:23 43 0 27 0 2,322 0 31 12 0 0
CLAY 0:31 69 0 26 0 3,588 0 69 0 0 0
CLCH 0:32 71 0 31 0 4,402 0 37 34 0 0
CMDN 0:24 50 0 26 0 2,600 0 30 20 0 0
COFF 0:36 93 0 32 0 5,952 0 93 0 0 0
COLQ 0:22 34 0 22 0 1,496 0 25 9 0 0
COOK 0:41 62 1 31 1 4,000 0 49 13 1 0
DECA 0:59 128 0 34 0 8,704 39 89 0 0 0
EARL 0:13 31 0 19 0 1,178 0 31 0 0 0
ECHO 0:30 67 0 30 0 4,020 0 29 38 0 0
GLYN 0:32 53 0 26 0 2,756 0 46 7 0 0
GRAD 0:30 72 0 33 0 4,752 37 35 0 0 0
HARR 0:27 28 0 14 0 784 0 16 12 0 0
IRWI 0:23 60 0 26 0 3,120 0 60 0 0 0
LANI 0:36 49 0 26 0 2,548 0 32 17 0 0
LOWN 0:22 43 0 23 0 1,978 43 0 0 0 0
MARI 0:27 34 0 18 0 1,224 0 27 7 0 0
MERI 0:26 40 1 18 1 1,539 0 40 0 1 0
MILL 0:?? 46 0 25 0 2,300 0 46 0 0 0
MUSC 0:27 27 0 18 0 972 0 27 0 0 0
PIER 0:20 66 0 25 0 3,300 0 66 0 0 0
QUIT 0:24 42 0 20 0 1,680 0 41 1 0 0
RAND 0:19 64 0 28 0 3,584 0 64 0 0 0
STWT 0:30 49 0 28 0 2,744 0 44 5 0 0
THOM 0:42 77 0 32 0 4,928 58 19 0 0 0
TLBT 0:47 44 17 18 7 2,544 0 44 0 17 0
TROU 0:32 27 5 13 4 1,003 0 27 0 5 0
WARE 0:58 64 6 30 6 4,824 0 39 25 3 3
WAYN 0:40 76 0 29 0 4,408 0 71 5 0 0
On one mode or the other or both, we worked all our mults except: DC, AR, NV,
SD, VO, VY2, VE5, VE6, VE8, VY1, VY0. FB activity from Canada this year.
Second weekend in April each year. See you next year, I hope.
W4AN is the club call of South East Contest Club, operated in memory of the
late Bill Fisher, W4AN. QSL via K4BAI. DX stations may request bureau cards
via e-mail to k4bai@worldnet.att.net.
73, John, K4BAI and Jeff, KU8E.
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