[3830] PaQP K8MR Rover Multi-Op LP

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                    Pennsylvania QSO Party

Call: K8MR
Operator(s): K8MR W3JL
Station: K8MR

Class: Rover Multi-Op LP
QTH: 3 Counties
Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  RTTY Qs  PSK31 Qs
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  160:                             
   80:    1      0                 
   40:   81     43                 
   20:   53      3                 
   15:   16      3                 
   10:    1      0                 
    6:                             
    2:                             
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Total:  151     49      0         0  Mults = 79  Total Score = 27,887

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

CW  SSB

BUT  50  17
LAW  70  30
MER  32   2

42 Sections   36 counties



A Murphy outing. I had a Saturday evening wedding in Cleveland, so PAQP was a
Sunday only event. This year I was joined by one of my longest time radio
friends, Glenn, W3JL.

Shortly before the start of the contest on Sunday we stopped to get Glenn into
the driver seat. Pulling out he asked if there was something odd about the
brakes on the minivan, and I said no. But a few miles down the road when he
pushed the brake pedal nearly to the floor and the brake warning light came on,
we decided that there really was a problem. Got out to find brake fluid all
around the left rear wheel.

So me made the obvious decision to head back to his QTH and then home.
Fortunately we weren't all that far away, and the road (US422) was mostly 4
lane and relatively straight by PA standards. Good thing the brakes didn't
break heading down some big hill a hundred miles from home.

We stopped on the way back to set up the mast and 33 foot wire in BUT, then in
Glenn's driveway in Lawrence. After an hour there we headed out to lunch (in
his car) at the original Quaker Steak & Lube in Sharon, along with K3LR,
K3LA, and K3LA's XYL.

After lunch a few more qsos from Glen's driveway, I then did a careful drive on
I-376, I-80, and I-271 back to my home in Cleveland. I made a brief stop just
off I-376 to activate Mercer. No problems on that part of the trip, and I
dropped the car at the repair shop where my wife picked me up.

Conditions did not seem very good on Sunday, compared to what I heard from home
in Ohio on Saturday. Highlight was moving Uli, DM5EE, through five QSOs on 20,
15, and 10 CW. Barely heard him on 10SSB, but no QSO.

Sorry I wasn't able to pass out a lot more QSOs than we did.


73  -  Jim  K8MR


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