[NCC] NyQP K8MR SO MobileMixed LP

[Jim Stahl]

> New York QSO Party
> 
> Call: K8MR
> Operator(s): K8MR
> Station: K8MR
> 
> Class: SO MobileMixed LP
> QTH: 4 counties
> Operating Time (hrs): 3:45
> 
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
> ----------------------------
>  160:                   
>   80:                   
>   40:  159     44       
>   20:   68              
>   15:    1              
>   10:                   
>    6:                   
>    2:                   
>  222:                   
>  432:                   
> ----------------------------
> Total:  228     44      0  Mults = 67  Total Score = 33,500
> 
> Club: North Coast Contesters
> 
> Comments:
> 
> This is a hypothetical score, as I operated as a rover, which is no longer an
> NYQP category. In particular, I used the 33 foot wire fed against the car body
> from 3 of the 4 counties. Officially I'll file four separate entries, but here
> it is easier to do one report.
> 
> I did a swing around NYC from my daughter's QTH in Montclair, NJ. I got across
> the GW Bridge and to my New York county location very easily, and found a good
> parking spot in Ft. Tryon Park with a beautiful view of the Hudson River. No
> space there for the mast, so this was my pure mobile effort. Had a scare -
> after one QSO, the K3 went deaf and dumb. Tried various power cycling, etc.,
> for ten minutes. After an snap of the front bail, the radio snapped back to
> life and worked fine for the rest of the contest. NEW total was 35 CW, 3 SSB.
> 
> Second stop was in Queens, at parking lot at the entrance to Fort Totten Park.
> Nice view here also, other than watching the traffic crossing the Throgs Neck
> Bridge at a crawl. The five mile drive to the next stop in Bronx (Orchard
> Beach) took 40 minutes. QUE was good for 67 CW and 14 SSB.
> 
> Bronx was the biggest (almost)empty parking lot I've ever seen. It did have
> some serious RFI issues on 40 meters - I suspect from a couple of 50KW AM radio
> stations a couple of miles away. After some good results on CW, I went to 40 SSB
> and quickly got called by a very loud K0BAK - who was on the other side of the
> same parking lot. Pete drove over to where I was and we had a very neat eyeball
> QSO. When Pete got back to the opposite side of the lot, he called to say my QRM
> was clobbering 40 SSB, so I went back to CW to finish off the county. BRX
> totals: 63 CW, 21 SSB.
> 
> With more traffic leaving the BRX location, I skipped the planned stop in the
> common Westchester county, and proceeded through another traffic jam at the
> Tappan Zee Bridge to get to my planned location at a park in Orangetown in
> Rockland county. Had a very interested park cop (probably a volunteer). By that
> time the band was beginning to lengthen a bit, but still pulled out a decent
> number: 63 CW, 6 SSB. 
> 
> Other than more traffic than I had expected, it was a beautiful day to be out
> and about, and as always it was good to pass out some QSOs and multipliers to
> the deserving.
> 
> 
> 73  -   Jim  K8MR
>