Georgia QSO Party - 2022
Call: N4N
Operator(s): K5JR N5ZZ WK4U KX4MZ
Station: N4N
Class: Rover Multi-Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 20
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 0 0
80: 241 0
40: 990 122
20: 627 47
15: 6 3
10:
6:
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Total: 1864 172 CW Mults = 48 Ph Mults = 32 Total Score = 312,000
Club: North Fulton Amateur Radio League
Comments:
Another GQP in the books for the N4N GQP Rover team. We thank all of you who
gave us a Q (and possibly a mult)!! We really appreciate those of you that
contacted us in/on more than one county, band and/or mode. Hopefully we can get
more Q's on 15m next year.
The buggy, an '02 Yukon with 277k miles on it, carried us through 31 counties on
Saturday and 27 on Sunday. Over 1000 miles driven. For the GQP weekend, the
Yukon is transformed into a Multi 2 contest station, utilizing a pair of Flex
6000 series radios, Dunestar bandpass filters and a pair of Hi-Q mobile antennas
(only 5 feet apart) plus a baby Tarheel. Hopefully some of you followed our
tracks via N4N-5 on aprs.
Friday evening before the event, we had a catastrophic failure in one of the
Hi-Q antennas. Fortunately, we were able to borrow one from an NFARL member to
get back to expected antenna compliment. Saturday morning we awoke to finding
the whip on the other Hi-Q antenna had failed. An on hand spare was quickly
installed, and off we went for our starting point.
Both of GPS's loaded with the SAT & SUN routes on them decided that they
thought the routes generated by Google maps should be "optimized",
thinking that was "helpful". It's a wonder that both didn't get tossed
out the window and left in a ditch. They did still have the county boundary map
on them, so they weren't completely useless, but darn close to it. The
navigation was now handled by an iPhone and iPad. The route on one and county
boundaries on the other. That's just the way it was going to be as the computer
that might be able to change it was busy making Q's. Do we need a 3rd computer
next year?? After a few pinch/zoom sequences, the iOS devices had to have their
respective maps re-enabled. It seems that Apple doesn't care for Google maps,
either, ha. And we had a GA state map marked with the route. The MacGyver
approach got us through the weekend.
2 Flex radios (6500 & 6300)
2 Dunestar D600 filters
2 Hi-Q 5-80 HF antennas
1 Baby Tarheel HF antenna
2 Flex Knobs
2 RadioSport headsets
2 Astron power supplies
2 UPS battery backup units
2 Begali paddles
2 Dell laptops
3 Garmin GPS's
2 iPads
6 cellphones
2 hotspots
4 Adult males
4 Overnight bags for said males
1 bag of tools
1 12v jump box (one never knows)
1 Honda genny
1 Georgia state map, paper, with route and counties highlighted
1 jar of QSO Fuel (container of Costco animal crackers)
2022 N4N GQP Rover Team
K5JR N5ZZ WK4U KX4MZ
See ya next year!!
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