[NCC] Fwd: PaQP K8MR Multi-Op Mobile LP

[Jim Stahl]

Thanks to all who got on the air!

73  -  Jim  K8MR



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: webform at b4h.net
> Subject: PaQP K8MR Multi-Op Mobile LP
> Date: October 15, 2017 at 7:28:49 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 L1NDA
> Station: K8MR
> 
> Class: Multi-Op Mobile LP
> QTH: 15 Counties
> Operating Time (hrs): 5.5
> 
> Summary:
> Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  RTTY Qs  PSK31 Qs
> ---------------------------------------
>  160:                             
>   80:                             
>   40:  230      8                 
>   20:   72     11                 
>   15:                             
>   10:                             
>    6:                             
>    2:                             
> ---------------------------------------
> Total:  302     19      0         0  Mults = 82  Total Score = 58,086
> 
> Club: North Coast Contesters
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Score includes the mobile bonus for 10+ Qs from 14 of the 15 counties, but does
> not include QSOs with bonus stations.
> 
> Once again, this was a Saturday trip combining the PAQP with getting to our
> daughter's place in NNJ. My wife Linda agreed/was coerced into driving through
> PA, other than a 35 mile break through Centre and Clinton counties when the
> bands went pretty dead and she was feeling a bit sleepy. We were in the Prius V
> (featured in my NCJ article about FQP mobiling), which does have serious
> ignition noise when pressed into hard action, which included maintaining 75+
> MPH going up hills on I-80. I may have been an alligator at times, which is
> why. Next time I ought to bring the 2007 Sienna (168K miles) which is the
> quietest mobile vehicle I've owned.
> 
> Reasonably good conditions at the start and the end (22Z Saturday), but poor in
> the mid-afternoon. Not sure if the bands took a dump, or if there had been a 200
> mile skip zone all day, which when in central PA would have been enough to skip
> over the rest of the state.
> 
> Not much phone operation. I tried getting some CQ action from Armstrong and (I
> believe) Clinton, but no luck. Most of my phone QSOs were QSYs from CW with
> OM2VL.
> 
> It was only Friday night that I realized that NHA was a stone's throw south of
> I-80 on the west side of the Delaware River, which we could then cross and skip
> the first five miles of I-80 in New Jersey. But that stretch is also at the
> bottom of a valley with big hills on both sides, especially to the west, so I
> never got much going there, only eight QSOs.
> 
> One casual non-radio observation: I've been doing PAQP as a mobile for nearly
> 20 years. It used to seem that it fell pretty close to peak fall colors of the
> changing leaves. This year, in spite of PAQP being on the latest possible
> dates, even at the highest elevations on I-80, the leaves were barely starting
> to change. 
> 
> 
> 73 -  Jim   K8MR
> 
> 
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