Minnesota QSO Party
Call: WB0TEV
Operator(s): WB0TEV
Station: WB0TEV
Class: Single Op Phone HP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 8.5
Summary:
Band CW-RTTY Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 49
20: 97
15:
10:
6:
2:
UHF:
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Total: 0 146 Mults = 58 Total Score = 16,936
Club: North Texas Contest Club
Comments:
After quite unexpectedly taking 1st place for the out of state SSB only category
in last years MNQP, I figured I'd try and defend my title so to speak. The MNQP
is great fun to work from here in North Texas, (where it was about 50-60°
warmer!) It seems to be at an ideal range for 20m and 40m was at least fair all
day as well. Had to take 1.5 hours off to go to a funeral in mid-afternoon.
Kudos to N0HJZ with a unique and successful strategy, pick a freq on 20 SSB and
STAY THERE ALL DAY NON-STOP. Clever, and it seemed to work well, although there
were probably some of his MN brethren who wished he would have gotten on 40/80
some so they could harvest the plethora of counties he put on the air,
including a couple extra ones he was able to tack on before the closing bell.
I worked Rich in 28 counties! It wasn't long into the contest before I simply
programmed 14256 kHz USB into one of my radio's memories and punched it every
so often to see where Rich was.
It was also good to work Bob W0BH 8 times from 7 counties (got him from
Kandiyohi on both 20 and 40m). Had I not been an SSB only entry I'm sure he'd
be in my log more than that. Bob does a great job promoting his home state of
Kansas QSO party and is a regular mobile entry in the Texas QSO party usually
covering many of the panhandle and northern tier counties.
Other mobiles worked include: K0SV(3), KD0CVO (3), N0PI(2), W0ZQ(2), & W9FZ
(2).
Thanks also to the many fixed MN stations both serious and casual that got on
to put their county on the air.
Gear:
An old FT-767 driving a tired old Dentron MLA2500 to a Mosley PRO67B at 63 feet
aimed north of course! N1MM logger V13.1.3
Hope to CU in the next one.
-Victor WB0TEV
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