[SECC] GQP Comments

[Hal Kennedy]

John,

Glad you enjoyed it - we will do it again next year - hopefully with
more sunspots!  Glad you hung in there and thanks for participating...

73, Hal
N4GG
(and thanks for the Qs)


-----Original Message-----
From: secc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of N6MU1 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 11:05 PM
To: secc at contesting.com
Subject: [SECC] GQP Comments

I was really looking forward to the GQP. Adding the CW only category
this 
year was a big plus as that's my favorite mode. I was drooling over the
thought 
of chasing N4PN, K4BAI, KN4Y, W3DYA and NO5W all over GA as they are all

excellent CW mobile ops and I knew they would be active. Then reality
set in 
starting at 18Z Saturday. The only mobile I heard the first four hours
was N4PN who 
came up out of the noise for one Q. I guess not hearing the mobiles made
sense 
when you consider W4AN and K4EA were both above my noise level but no
where 
near the S9+ they should have been. What was really frustrating was that
guys 
like W7OM, KO7X, K5YAA, K5OT, etc, were all LOUD here as they worked the
GA 
stations I couldn't even hear. How bad was it? Would you believe I never
heard 
NO5W at all? Amazing.

I was particularly impressed by the number of fixed stations that hung
in 
there despite the lousy conditions. There were at least fifteen of them
on CW, 
which is a lot, who periodically kept coming back and calling CQ. 

The last two hours I never heard one GQP CW signal, mobile or fixed. A 
fitting end.

Congrats to all for the outstanding GA participation. Please do it again
next 
year. 73...

John, N6MU
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