[CQ-Contest] GQP and K4BAI/M

[ku8e at bellsouth.net]

   Hi All...

   Thanks for all the contacts and support of the GQP this past weekend. I will try to work on getting more fixed station activity for next year. John,
K4BAI and myself were very pleased with our effort. K4BAI should be putting out a complete report on 3830 in a day or so.

   Unfortunately, our effort (along with N4PN/m) started in the parking lot of the L.W McDonald Funeral Home in Cumming, GA at the W4AN memorial service. John and I were probably one of the last to leave because we needed to change into more comfortable clothes and then get the final configuration of the antennas ready. Bill's mom and dad came over and chatted with us while we were setting up and we explained the contest and the antennas/radios in the car to them. They really gave me the impression that the support of the contest community really helped them cope somewhat with this terrible tragedy. They never knew about all the "radio" friends that Bill had and the scope of it all..

 I would also be interested in commments about our rover signal. I had a different antenna configuration this time from the past. We sensed that we were getting out pretty good but I would be interested in how we compared to the other rovers. John and I will be out again in the FQP as K4BAI/m in a couple weeks...


                          73, Jeff  KU8E