[3830] TnQP W4NZ/M Multi-Op MobileCW LP

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                    Tennessee QSO Party

Call: W4NZ/M
Operator(s): W4NZ, N5WR
Station: W4NZ/M

Class: Multi-Op MobileCW LP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 9

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs  Mults
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  160:                           
   80:   138                   40
   40:   744                   68
   20:   501                   51
   15:                           
   10:                           
    6:                           
    2:                           
  222:                           
  432:                           
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Total:  1383    0       0     159  Total Score = 659,691

Club: Tennessee Contest Group

Comments:

This was a 2-man team effort with Erik N5WR and I. We had a plan for covering 25
counties in the middle and eastern parts of the state.  Actually, this was very
similar to last year's route except we ran this one in reverse, traveling
through the middle Tennessee counties first and the eastern counties late. The
hope was that propagation on the higher bands would be better while driving
westward and better on the lower bands late in the eastern counties. We were
very surprised at the great short skip on 20m. Our Georgia and Alabama
neighbors were loud the whole trip. Encountered rain showers much of the
afternoon but not bad. Surprisingly, not much QRN either. But, after sunset and
just when we needed to install the 80m antenna, heavy rain set in when we made a
pit stop in Cumberland county. (Just because you're under a gas station canopy
doesn't mean you won't get soaked!) The extra time it took here plus having to
travel a bit slower in the pouring rain left us about 15 minutes short of
reaching our last county, Bradley.  It was good to find that Bogdan W4EEH was
active from there. Still, our route covered just under 500 miles.

All together conditions were pretty good. The pile-up were amazing(and fun!)
Thanks for your patience as we sorted 'em out. We didn't work as many DX
stations as in the past but DL3DXX was solid on both 20 and 40m with a total of
18 QSO's. Thanks, Dietmar!

Other QSO leaders:
WA2VYA(32),KV8Q(28),AA3B(27),WB8JUI(26),K4BAI(25),N4PN(24),W4UCZ(24),N8II(23),K5LH(22),N6MA(21),W5SL(20).
And a whole bunch between 15 and 20 Q's:
W9RE,W8TM,W0BH,VE1RGB,NO3M,K9NW,K1ZZI,AA8IA. Thank you all for following along
with us.  It certainly made the trip FUN!

Special thanks to Greg K4KO for all his hard work in keeping the TnQP web page
up to date with all the latest and in promoting the TQP.

See y'all next year!!

73, Ted W4NZ (and Erik N5WR)


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