[CQ-Contest] Iowa QSO Party mobile coverage

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

I created an IOWA QSO PARTY tool that will help operators determine when the mobile stations will activate each county. This is a visual aide created from the itineraries posted to the mobile website. 

Download the Excel workbook from here: http://tinyurl.com/yzwaezb

Five mobiles posted an itinerary and will cover 75 of the 99 Iowa counties tomorrow. The workbook lists the counties alphabetically in a column and the contest timeline across the horizontal axis in 5 minutes increments. It looks similar to a player piano roll, with the mobiles represented by colored bars (the "notes")! This tool shows graphically when to expect a particular county to be activated and which mobile callsign to be listening for.

Good luck to everyone in the first annual Iowa QSO Party... http://www.wa0dx.org/iaqsoparty.html

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN