[3830] WiQP W9DND(K0PC) SO Mobile LP

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                    Wisconsin QSO Party

Call: W9DND
Operator(s): K0PC
Station: W9DND

Class: SO Mobile LP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:           
   80:   88      
   40:  649      
   20:  157      
   15:           
   10:           
    6:           
    2:           
  UHF:           
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Total:  894     0  Mults = 65  Total Score = 181,830.0

Club: Minnesota Wireless Association

Comments:

The only thing disappointing about the 2011 WiQP was the temperature, 
it was about 30 degrees less than the 60s we had last year. The 
weather was just fine with seasonal temps and the roads were clear.

John W9DND has been my QSO Party driver for the last eight years. 
John's call was originally held by his uncle Archie Smith (SK in 1995). 
Archie was an outstanding CW operator who had a 60wpm Code Proficiency 
Certificate from the ARRL. Archie lived in Wisconsin his whole life 
and was very active on traffic nets.

A few weeks ago Archie's daughter found an old trophy in a box. It was 
from the 1964 Wisconsin QSO Party, Archie had won 2nd Place in the CW 
category. That trophy inspired us to use W9DND as our call this year. 
We thought it was fitting that Archie's call would ring out in CW 
throughout Wisconsin again.

40M was the real money band this year. It was short and it was long at 
the same time. We had QSOs throughout Wisconsin and through most of the 
country one after the other. 20M was also in good shape but it was 
hard to tear away from the rate on 40M. 80M seemed to have a lot of 
noise this year. Our QSO count on 80 was half what it was last year.

The turnout was great. When 0100z rolled around the QSO counter hit 899! 
With dupes the actual number dropped to 894 but that's not as dramatic. 
Our mults were down this year but the total score was up about 4%. We 
had 213 unique calls in the log. Rates were high all day with an average 
rate of almost 130 for the whole contest. The highest hour was 158 
during hour 5.

Heavy hitters included:
18 - K8ES
17 - NA0N
16 - N4VV, W0GXQ, W8TM
15 - W0PI
14 - N0UR, W1END
13 - K0TI, K2KW, N4TZ, WA3HAE
12 - K0TK, K8MR, NS9I, NT2A, NU0Q
11 - K3TW/4, K9EN
10 - AF9T, N8II, W4NZ, W6GMT, W9EAU

It was also great that Mike KP2/K9NW took some time away from the sun 
and sand in the Virgin Islands to work us a couple of times.

Thanks to everyone who participated and to the West Allis RAC for 
another great event. 

73,
Pat K0PC & John W9DND


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