[3830] NyQP N2ZN MobileCW LP

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                    New York QSO Party

Call: N2ZN
Operator(s): N2ZN NW2K
Station: N2ZN

Class: MobileCW LP
QTH: 22 counties
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:  153              
   40:  362              
   20:  430              
   15:                   
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
  222:                   
  432:                   
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Total:  945     0       0  Mults = 78  Total Score = 147,420

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

Another successful year mobiling in the NYQP.  This year, NW2K joined for the
trip which enabled us to share driving and operating responsibilities, which
allowed us to be on the air for the full 12 hours, and moving continuously. 
Thanks to Dean for joining me this year; in addition to being a great operator,
he obviously has a high tolerance for BS to sign up for a trip like this one.

We had no major equipment problems, just a small RFI problem with the CAT
control cable for the radio, so we abandoned the CAT control for the duration
and made bandchanges manually. No other equipment hiccups otherwise.

In past years, I never had an 80 meter antenna, so this year, I think adding
one to the setup.  We also had a screwdriver antenna that was left tuned to 20,
and the 80/40 antenna hooked to a coax switch allowed for bandchanges without
having to retune anything, so that probably sped up the show a bit.

No major issues out on the road, either-we managed to avoid deer and state
troopers; the only encounter we had with a pig was an ACTUAL piglet running
across the road upon our entry into Madison County-we stopped in the nick of
time to avoid turning him into sausage patties.

We are a bit short on mults because we spent most of the time CQing and not
tuning the bands much; we also decided to forget about SSB, because with less
efficiency on SSB from this setup, CQing would not really work too well, and
the overall rate wouldn't be as good by tuning and working people on SSB, as
opposed to running on CW for twice the points. We are not at all displeased
with the final score.

Thanks to all who called us this weekend, especially those who stopped by for
multiple QSO's as we changed counties and bands...calls like N4PN, K1ZZI, NW0M,
K2SSS, W2FU/0, N2LQ, K2ZR, WA2VYA, W5ASP, AA2U, OM2VL, DL5ME, DK2OY, and many
others come to mind here.

Also, congratulations and thank you to the other mobiles and rovers who took to
the roads this weekend to make the NYQP experience that much better for all of
us...guys like N2CU, WB2ABD, W2LC, NT2A, WJ2O, W3OAB, AK2X, W2M, K8MR, and
others for putting some rare counties on the air.

We intended to put 22 counties on the air, and ended up doing that, but we
added one that we weren't supposed to go to because of a wrong turn (Yates),
and missed our final planned county (Livingston) because we ran out of time to
get there.  We ultimately did end up in Livingston to drop Dean off at his
house, but after the contest ended (I'm sure that doesn't make anyone happy who
missed Livingston).

We worked 36 out of 62 counties, and ended up activating a number of counties
that we never worked ourselves.

Looking forward to next year already! Thanks again to everyone for all of the
QSO's.

73, Ken N2ZN & Dean NW2K

Some stats:

QSO's by county:

RoverLocation Total         N2ZN          
BRM           46            46            
CAY           26            26            
CGO           74            74            
CHE           38            38            
COR           47            47            
DEL           87            87            
FUL           42            42            
HAM           38            38            
HER           23            23            
MAD           89            89            
MTG           35            35            
ONE           83            83            
ONO           32            32            
ONT           27            27            
OTS           29            29            
SCO           79            79            
SCU           33            33            
SEN           12            12            
STE           4             4             
TIO           57            57            
TOM           43            43            
YAT           1             1             
Total         945           945           

Order of activation:
STE, SCU, YAT, SCU, CHE, TIO, TOM, TIO, BRM, COR, MAD, ONE, MAD, CGO, OTS, DEL,
OTS, DEL,  SCO, MTG, FUL, HAM, HER, ONE, MAD, ONO, CAY, SEN, ONT (approx 650
miles).

Station:
Yaesu FT-857D
ATAS-120 on 20m
Hustler resonators on 40/80m
N1MM logger

Rate sheet:

Date          Hour          Total         Running Total 
2014-10-18    14            57            57            
2014-10-18    15            69            126           
2014-10-18    16            78            204           
2014-10-18    17            72            276           
2014-10-18    18            74            350           
2014-10-18    19            99            449           
2014-10-18    20            94            543           
2014-10-18    21            74            617           
2014-10-18    22            95            712           
2014-10-18    23            75            787           
2014-10-19    0             73            860           
2014-10-19    1             85            945           
Total         All Hours     945


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