[3830] WiQP N9NE SO Fixed LP

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                    Wisconsin QSO Party

Call: N9NE
Operator(s): N9NE
Station: N9NE

Class: SO Fixed LP
QTH: Amherst, WI
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:            
   80:   93     64
   40:  178    142
   20:   62     25
   15:    1       
   10:            
    6:            
    2:            
  UHF:            
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Total:  334    231  Mults = 107  Total Score = 97,092.0

Club: Fond du Lac

Comments:

Greetings,

This is the first time in several years that I have not gone mobile for the
WIQP. I was just too fatigued from my having to put up with the high 70s and
80s in south TX the last few weeks to put the gear in the van, tweak the
antennas, and guy them down. Poor me! And my usual drivers were unavailable.
So, I sat home and handed out POR. Ran the K3 at 100W to my 176' doublet and
the Force 12 C-4SXL 40-10M beam.  I thought 15 and 10 might be open, but it was
a waste of time going up there. Even 20M was not all that good IMHO. My QSO
total was down about 200 from last year in the mobile, although the multipliers
were way up. Of course, the SSB contacts are only worth 1 point to the 2 points
awarded for CW contacts, and as I couldn't move my chair to another county, I
lost bonus points there too :)

I have never seen 40M so good as today. I worked mobiles near (10 miles) and
far (NW WI). It was all open. I was 'forced' to run SSB to the point that I
couldn't take the 3 to 4 Q's a minute at times. Voices bounce off the empty
spaces in my cranium. I worked all the counties around me, including at least 3
stations in the Menominee Nation (County) and a contact in Marathon County for
the first time in years (SSB).

My last two contacts were new multipliers: Walworth and Florence (thanks,
Scott!). What a nice way to finish the contest.

I also worked a number of Fond du Lac stations, most of whom belong to the FdL
Club ... a very fine organization!

I had a good time, but my point total won't win anything. In the end, what does
it matter anyway? I had a load of fun, and I can run mobile next year when the
price of gas is $8/gallon....

Jim, N0UR in tropical MN ran QRP and had a heck of a signal as usual into this
station. N9DJ in NE IL had the strongest IL signal, and I worked a ton of IL
stations.

Never did get ID, and this after working a slug of them in THEIR contest
yesterday. Guess they were pooped out.

I heard Scott, NE9U/M say at the end of the contest that he had made 808
contacts. He might have a new record!

Here's my summary:
Band  Mode          QSOs     Pts  Sec       
         3.5  CW      93     186    3    
         3.5  LSB     64      64    5    
           7  CW     178     356   53    
           7  LSB    142     142   19    
          14  CW      62     124   21    
          14  USB     25      25    6    
          21  CW       1      2     0    
       Total  Both   565     899  107    


            Score : 144,289.5

And that's it from HAMster 54406

Todd
N9NE


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