[CQ-Contest] N3BB Mobile SS

[Zack Widup]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Jim George N3BB wrote:

> 15 meters was quiet but the stations that were loud were LOUD.  The champs over 
> the next several hours were K6LA, N6RO, N2IC and WP2Z.  Oh yes, also W5VX in 
> (very) South Texas.  It was interesting comparing Bill's (W5VX) signal with my 
> buddies in Austin.  K5TR (KE5C), K5NA, and K5YA all were 300 miles or so closer 
> than W5VX and all three were 549 and sounded watery like back scatter.  I 
> didn't even call them as I had calibrated by then that the other station had to 
> show at least some signal strength on the FT100's meter for me to be heard. 
> N5DO out in West TX was loud as well, as Dave was far enough away.  I operated 
> from Virginia, Tennessee, and then cut through Northern GA as I took the 
> southern route and wanted to operate from as many sections as possible.  East 
> of Knoxville I changed to I-75 and went south through Chattanooga and through a 
> slice of Georgia and into Alabama, then through Birmingham and on into 
> Mississippi.  I QSYed to 20 meters for several hours, and ended up again on 40 
> meters as I drove through Mississippi.  Even with active stations in Alabama 
> and N4OGW's activity in MS, several stations thanked me for a new mult in AL 
> and MS.   I stopped for the night in Jackson at about 02Z, so the SS still had 
> a bit to run, but I was dead tired.
> 

So are you the first Rover to participate in Sweepstakes?  You GOTTA do 
the same route for the January VHF SS!  :-)

> 
> Looking at the 3830 reports, I never heard a peep from Tree at W5WMU, or Tor at 
> N4OGW. 

I worked both.  Tree seemed to be all over the place, and Tor was heard 
several times here also.

73, Zack W9SZ