[3830] AlQP W4AN/M Mobile Multi-OpCW LP

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Sun Sep 15 12:09:00 EDT 2019


                    Alabama QSO Party - 2019

Call: W4AN/M
Operator(s): K4BAI KU8E
Station: W4AN/M

Class: Mobile Multi-OpCW LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
  160:           
   80:   72      
   40:  304      
   20:  241      
   15:           
   10:           
--------------------
Total:  617     0  CW Mults = 54  Ph Mults = 0  Total Score = 66,636

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

We met up with both AB4B and W4NZ at the Huntsville Hamfest this year and both
mentioned they needed help activating counties in the Tennessee and Alabama QSO
Parties. So John (K4BAI) and I took two extra rover trips this year.
 
We ended up activating 24 Alabama counties. We had planned a few more counties
but we started getting intermittent high SWR during the last couple hours on
both of our mobile antennas and had to stop several times to troubleshoot that.
That put us behind and we were 1 1/2 hours away from home when the contest
ended.

The antenna setup is two magnet mounts (3 magnets on the antenna mount) on the
trunk of John's Toyota Avalon. I have a nice ground that goes to the bracket for
the muffler. We used Hustler 80 and 40 meter resonators and a 15 meter resonator
on 20 meters with the DX Engineering top hat. So we were able to QSY quickly
between two bands. The station is setup in the backseat of the car on and
operating table I built. We used a Kenwood TS-590SG with a Winkeyer. I ran an
audio cable from the radio to the audio input of the car radio so the driver
could listen when driving.

I think the antenna problem we had was cause by the wind load on the mobile mast
which caused it to partially unscrew from the bolt on the mobile mount. That
caused a bad connection. It was strange because when I stopped to look at it the
SWR went back to normal but when we got going again the problem returned. The
problem with the 2nd mount is probably because it's a MFJ that developed an
intermittent connection. Someday I will get all these problems we have had in
the past fixed. At least I solved the RF problem with the radio/computer that
has plagued us for years on 40 meters. Sometimes it's hard to tackle these
issues with the temporary setup we use.

John and I had fun despite our visit from Murphy. We had some unusually short
skip on 20 meters that helped our QSO totals on that band. We were also glad to
give John's old high school classmate W6OAT his last county in Alabama!

CU in the next one.

Jeff KU8E



RoverLocation      Tot  Accum 
AUTA          14   14   14    
BARB          21   21   35    
BLOU          9    9    44    
BULL          29   29   73    
CHIL          40   40   113   
CHOU          38   38   151   
CKEE          31   31   182   
CLAY          13   13   195   
CLEB          19   19   214   
CULM          24   24   238   
DKLB          38   38   276   
ELMO          5    5    281   
ETOW          42   42   323   
JEFF          40   40   363   
JKSN          27   27   390   
LIME          10   10   400   
MACO          38   38   438   
MDSN          30   30   468   
MGMY          16   16   484   
MORG          40   40   524   
MRSH          32   32   556   
RAND          24   24   580   
RSSL          14   14   594   
SHEL          23   23   617   
Total         617  617  617   

QSO Leaders

K9OM    32
K1TO    29 
K0PC    19
K4BSK   19 
K3WJV   18 
WB9HFK  13
K5UV    17
NC4H    16
KM4HI   14 
DL3DXX  13
W6OAT   13 
K4BYN   12
W4EE    12


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