[3830] TxQP W0BH Multi-Op Mobile LP

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                    Texas QSO Party

Call: W0BH
Operator(s): W0BH AD0DX
Station: W0BH

Class: Multi-Op Mobile LP
QTH: Panhandle
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:                   
   40:                   
   20:   1               
   15:                   
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
  UHF:                   
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Total:   1      0       0  Mults = 1  Total Score = 1

Club: 

Comments:

[I operated mobile with Bob W0BH during the TQP.  Bob will post our actual
score.]

We operated mobile in the Texas panhandle.  This was my 3rd mobile contest with
Bob and it was a lot of fun.  Slowly but surely I'm getting better at picking
calls out of the pileups and learning how to squeeze more out of the software
that Bob uses.

I had to go to Calif on business for Monday, so I took the bus from Kansas City
on Fri afternoon and Bob picked me up in Wichita at 5:30 and we drove to Liberal
KS in west Kansas.  The contest ended at 3pm on Sunday, and I had an 8pm flight
out of Wichita and it's about a 4 hour drive from our ending point so
everything worked out perfect for me to take part in the TQP and still go on my
business trip.

Sat qso's were steady all day.  We had a different route from last year and
with the recent rains in Texas we almost got stuck once going down a dirt road.
 This ended up costing us 1/2 hour from our schedule because we refused to just
turn around and head back to town on the highway and get back on course.  But
it was a beautiful day in the panhandle and we enjoyed being mobile in the
TQP.

At one point in a pile up I was operating cw and I heard a JO prefix on 10
mtrs.  I thought to myself that I must have heard that call wrong and ignored
it.  The next time it was still there so I turned to Bob and asked 'did you
hear a JO?'.  He had so I sent JO? and sure enough he came back from Japan with
a very nice signal.  That was the first time I had ever worked Japan while
mobile.

It was a lot of fun working dx while mobile.  We worked DL3DXX, DL3GA and
YV5OIE quite a few times.  It was fun to also work YV5OIE on phone too.  

On Sat night we stayed in Paducah Texas in a family owned motel that used to be
a mortuary.  Nice clean rooms and friendly service.

Thanks again to Bob for teaching me about mobile contesting and sharing his
wealth of knowledge.  Near the end of the party we were starting to 'stack'
calls.  With Bob driving and me operating cw, if Bob heard a call different
from the one that I answered, then I was starting to work the first station,
send 'R BK' and then work the second station that Bob had heard.

Thanks to everyone that worked us and that called us consistently.  With so
many calls in those pileups, offsetting your frequency is usually a good idea. 
If everyone calls on exactly the same frequency, it's hard to pick out one
callsign.  Often I would be able to get a callsign because they were slightly
offset from most of the pileup.

Thanks to the organizers of the Texas QSO Party, this was a great weekend.

73's,

Ron, AD0DX
Kansas City, MO


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