[NCC] Fwd: PaQP K8MR SO Mobile LP

[Jim Stahl]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: webform at b4h.net
> Subject: PaQP K8MR SO Mobile LP
> Date: October 10, 2016 at 4:29:08 PM EDT
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, k8mr at arrl.net
> Reply-To: k8mr at arrl.net
> 
> Pennsylvania QSO Party
> 
> Call: K8MR
> Operator(s): K8MR
> Station: K8MR
> 
> Class: SO Mobile LP
> QTH: 15 Counties
> Operating Time (hrs): 5
> 
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  RTTY Qs  PSK31 Qs
> ---------------------------------------
>  160:                             
>   80:                             
>   40:  231     19                 
>   20:  105     11                 
>   15:                             
>   10:                             
>    6:                             
>    2:                             
> ---------------------------------------
> Total:  336     30      0         0  Mults = 82  Total Score = 64,990
> 
> Club: North Coast Contesters
> 
> Comments:
> 
> This score is approximate - multipliers are from memory, as the log is spread
> over 15 separate logs. I used NA rather than my normal N1MM, as MM+ does not
> run on my trusty old mobile laptop, and I could not use MM Classic with the new
> Ontario sections. Plus MM of both varieties does not allow for separate serial
> number sequences for each county, a major disadvantage for a mobile in a
> contest like PaQP. The score includes 7000 for activating 14 counties (not
> enough Q's in NUM) and an estimated 5 QSOs with W3UU (all in CUM).
> 
> This was an opportunistic operation. Saturday afternoon my son-in-law's family
> (Cleveland daughter) hosted a clambake at his parents' QTH 10 miles from PA. So
> I excused myself for a couple of hours before the food was ready to run over to
> the rest area on I-90 three miles into Erie county, for 45 minutes of
> operating. 40 was quite good, but few signals were heard on 20, even from AZ.
> Highlight was hearing NO3M's VFO zero beating me and then Ty calling me with
> his 1930's vintage setup.
> 
> We were then heading to New Jersey on Sunday to visit our other daughter, so I
> got my wife to drive most of I-80. She doesn't like driving, so I had to spell
> her for a while in Clearfield, Centre, and Luzerne counties. (All big
> counties). She was driving about 10 mph over her normal speeds, trying to get
> to NJ in time to watch the Indians-Red Sox game at 4:30 EDT - which turns out
> to have been rained out.
> 
> First time mobile in our Prius V. It is noisy, though not vastly noisier than
> other cars I've been in. There were, however, one or more layers of signals
> that I couldn't copy over the noise. Plus there was one time when 40 meters
> went very quiet - turned out I had hit the RX Ant button on the K3. Sorry for
> any alligator imitations on my part.
> 
> Since I was not trying to be competitive, I did not spend time looking for
> multipliers, and did not stop to maximize QSOs in counties that we passed
> through very quickly. I did smile when we stopped for lunch at Arby's in
> Clearfield and found a long line - I went to the car and operated while my wife
> got the food. And in Monroe county, we came to a dead stop in a four mile
> traffic backup from an accident at the Tannersville exit. This may have been
> the first time in recorded history that somebody was happy to get stuck in a
> traffic jam, allowing for a very good total from MOE.
> 
> It was a very good way to occupy myself on the otherwise boring trip down I-80,
> and as always good to work old friends and pass out QSOs to new ones.
> 
> Next Saturday (Oct 15) I'm planning a short mobile trip in the New York QSO
> Party, heading out from my daughter's NNJ QTH to visit New York, Bronx, and
> Queens counties in NYC, then heading up to the Tappan Zee Bridge and back to
> NJ. Hope to catch lots of you then.
> 
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
> 
> 
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