[NCC] Fwd: OhQP K8MR Mobile LP

[John S Comella]

Jim,

WOW!  Outstanding.

I noticed  you did not work BUTLer county(Hamilton, Fairfield, Oxford) as
well as HAMIlton (Cincinnati).  I could not hear you.  There were many BUTL
stations active.  Skip just wasn't good for us.

John,
N8AA

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 12:37 PM Jim K8MR via NCC <ncc at contesting.com>
wrote:

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> Subject: OhQP K8MR Mobile LP
>
>                     Ohio QSO Party - 2020
>
> Call: K8MR
> Operator(s): K8MR K3LA
> Station: K8MR
>
> Class: Mobile LP
> QTH: 28 Counties
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
>
> Summary:
>  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> --------------------
>   80:  668
>   40:  439    34
>   20:  282    45
>   15:    1
>   10:    1
> --------------------
> Total:  1391    79  CW Mults = 77  Ph Mults = 21  Total Score = 280,378
>
> Club: North Coast Contesters
>
> Comments:
>
> WHAT - A - RUSH !
>
> In recent years an OhQP mobile trip was good for about 850 QSOs. We did a
> bit
> better this time, what with the SQP challenge, the COVID restrictions
> giving a
> lot of people a lot of time, and the five weekend calendar in August this
> year
> that gave us the fourth Saturday with no major competition.
>
> By County, Total QSOs, in order of appearance:
>
> CUYA  20
> SUMM  13
> PORT  43
> TRUM  39
> MAHO  71
> COLU  37
> STAR  29
> CARR  46
> HARR  57
> BELM  68
> GUER  54
> MONR  52
> NOBL  76
> MUSK  37
> MORG  66
> PERR  43
> ATHE  59
> HOCK  34
> FAIR  62
> PICK  66
> ROSS  73
> HIGH  54
> CLIN  67
> FAYE  91
> GREE  60
> MADI  35
> CLAR  66
>
> Only two hours, 19Z and 20Z, with rate under 100/hr. We saved the best
> rate for
> last, 164 in the 0300Z hour.  As noted by others, skip zones on 40 and 20
> made
> things tough for close in places. But OTOH there were good signals from far
> away. Uli, DM5EE, as ZR2A/4 for ten QSOs was especially cool, and I had my
> first
> mobile contest JA QSO in years with JO7WXN. Fifteen and ten meters was
> running
> the bands with K1LT as we passed through his county.
>
> All the SSB QSOs were from moving people from CW, with in some cases other
> folks
> following me from a CW pileup to SSB and/or catching a packet spot in
> time. I
> tried a few random SSB CQs with no production resulting.
>
> While others in Ohio reported rain and thunderstorms, we were able to miss
> that.
> Only two equipment malfunctions: in MUSK the SWR went way up, but it just
> took
> tightening the stud in the mag mount to fix that. And we hit a huge
> pothole four
> miles from our end point in Springfield, which resulted in a very flat
> tire by
> morning. But thankfully that had no impact on our OhQP efforts, only on our
> Sunday activities.
>
> In the previous two years I planned my route to start and end near
> Youngstown to
> allow my partner, K3LA (a friend since high school) to get up for a Sunday
> bike
> ride in Pittsburgh. With COVID cancelling that ride, we combined the OhQP
> with a
> 40 mile ride on Sunday from Springfield to Xenia. That included going past
> the
> empty Green County Fairgrounds. I hope that does not jinx that place like
> I did
> when I visited HARA Arena after the 2018 Hamvention. Nine days later the
> tornado
> did the final job on HARA.
>
> I hope to visit Pennsylvania for one day of their party in October, and
> there is
> an outside chance I might make it to New York as well. And a big thanks to
> all
> who got on the air for our Party in Ohio!
>
>
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
>
>
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