[3830] IaQP K0PC SO Mobile LP

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                    Iowa QSO Party

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

Class: SO Mobile LP
QTH: IA
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:               
   80:               
   40:    360        
   20:    272        
   15:      5        
   10:      1        
    6:               
    2:               
  222:               
  432:               
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Total:    638       0  Mults = 67  Total Score = 85,492

Club: Minnesota Wireless Association

Comments:

A beautiful day for a drive around Iowa, 55 degrees and sunny. We moved to 
northeast IA this year with a new route and planned on 20 counties. We managed
to squeeze in eight hectic minutes in a 21st county (KOS) at the end. 
Absolutely no equipment issues so we must be living right.

The score this year is about 4% better than last year. We had 45 fewer QSOs but
8 more mults this year. There are 154 unique calls in the log, a nice turnout.
The heavy hitters include:
20 - N6MU, W4UCZ
19 - WØEAR
18 - NN9K
17 - KV1E, W4IHI
14 - KØHNC, W9LHG
13 - K9EN
12 - KØMPH, KIØI, WØZQ, WA9LT
11 - KC7YE, LY5A, N9YPN, WØEAR, WØGXQ

I have been asked by the Iowa State Patrol to turn over my log as evidence
in a speeding case against Jon WØZQ. He called me four times in four minutes 
from four different counties. I think Jon set a new land speed record for a
gravel road. Jon was a big reason my mults were up this year.

We have used APRS every year in Iowa but the coverage has been pretty sparse.
This year I didn't use a 2M radio for APRS, I used a program on the laptop
that
fed our position to an APRS internet server through a cell phone connection.
It worked fantastic and covered every mile of our route. I wasn't sure how
my cell phone data connection would hold up out in the rural areas but it was
fine. This will be a feature of all my future QSO Party runs.

Thanks to the Ottumwa ARC for sponsoring the IA QSO Party again this year.

73,
Pat KØPC & John W9DND


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