[3830] NyQP K8MR SO MobileMixed LP

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New York QSO Party

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

Class: SO MobileMixed LP
QTH: 4 counties
Operating Time (hrs): 3:45

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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  160:                   
   80:                   
   40:  159     44       
   20:   68              
   15:    1              
   10:                   
    6:                   
    2:                   
  222:                   
  432:                   
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Total:  228     44      0  Mults = 67  Total Score = 33,500

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

This is a hypothetical score, as I operated as a rover, which is no longer an
NYQP category. In particular, I used the 33 foot wire fed against the car body
from 3 of the 40 counties. Officially I'll file four separate entries, but here
it is easier to do one report.

I did a swing around NYC from my daughter's QTH in Montclair, NJ. I got across
the GW Bridge and to my New York county location very easily, and found a good
parking spot in Ft. Tryon Park with a beautiful view of the Hudson River. No
space there for the mast, so this was my pure mobile effort. Had a scare -
after one QSO, the K3 went deaf and dumb. Tried various power cycling, etc.,
for ten minutes. After an snap of the front bail, the radio snapped back to
life and worked fine for the rest of the contest. NEW total was 35 CW, 3 SSB.

Second stop was in Queens, at parking lot at the entrance to Fort Totten Park.
Nice view here also, other than watching the traffic crossing the Throgs Neck
Bridge at a crawl. The five mile drive to the next stop in Bronx (Orchard
Beach) took 40 minutes. QUE was good for 67 CW and 14 SSB.

Bronx was the biggest (almost)empty parking lot I've ever seen. It did have
some serious RFI issues on 40 meters - I suspect from a couple of 50KW AM radio
stations a couple of miles away. After some good results on CW, I went to 40 SSB
and quickly got called by a very loud K0BAK - who was on the other side of the
same parking lot. Pete drove over to where I was and we had a very neat eyeball
QSO. When Pete got back to the opposite side of the lot, he called to say my QRM
was clobbering 40 SSB, so I went back to CW to finish off the county. BRX
totals: 63 CW, 21 SSB.

With more traffic leaving the BRX location, I skipped the planned stop in the
common Westchester county, and proceeded through another traffic jam at the
Tappan Zee Bridge to get to my planned location at a park in Orangetown in
Rockland county. Had a very interested park cop (probably a volunteer). By that
time the band was beginning to lengthen a bit, but still pulled out a decent
number: 63 CW, 6 SSB. 

Other than more traffic than I had expected, it was a beautiful day to be out
and about, and as always it was good to pass out some QSOs and multipliers to
the deserving.


73  -   Jim  K8MR


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