[NCC] OhQP K8O Mobile LP score and writeup

[Dan Kovatch]

                    Ohio QSO Party

Call: K8O
Operator(s): W8CAR K8NZ
Station: K8O

Class: Mobile LP
QTH: oh
Operating Time (hrs): 11:5

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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   80:   88      6
   40:  473     49
   20:  134     26
   15:    0      0
   10:    0      0
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Total:  776    104  CW Mults = 69  Ph Mults = 33  Total Score = 152,984

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

An event to be remembered. We had all sorts of problems but somehow kept on
keeping on. Condx seemed pretty good but at times we felt like no one could
hear us then the bands would explode with signals. We had a best hour of 133 
Qs
and low of 38. Qs per state.FL 48,GA 45,PA 45,TN,46,TX 46. TNX to all who 
moved
us to SSB, N4PN amd K0RI hold the record and if we heard "qsy ssb" on
CW we knew who it was! total of 46 Qs between the two of them!

problems in no particular order:
80 meter antenna that normally works great just sounded like dummy 
load-found
out 6 hours in test that W8CAR had left the AUX rcvr ant. button clicked.(I
normally use RCVR ants at the home station) Found later that antenna had 
other
REAL problems AND when tearing down yesterday found all hardware loose on
antenna.

WINKEY kept losing its comport requiring a COMPLETE (at least 5 times) 
restart
of the winXP laptop. We think that cost us about 40 minutes total time in 
lost Qs. Eventually that went away. (?)

TomTom GPS routed us around a detour (I think) way out of our way causing us 
to
not know what county we were in for a bit. Think we spent an hour in 
Defiance
but the rate stayed pretty good. As a consequence we did not make our last 4
counties.

AND, The chief op, (W8CAR), after meticulously planning and printing a 
'route
sheet' that had times in county, miles in county and stopping points, 
neglected
to put it IN the car where it would be useful.

But it was a beautiful day to be driving around Ohio and the looks we get 
from
people are worth every penny! TNX to co-op Ron, K8NZ, for making the trip up 
to drive all over Ohio and make Qs!

tnx for all the Qs guys

Thanks to all MRRC and NCC members for the Qs

73 Dan W8CAR and K8NZ


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