[SECC] FQP Half Way Report

[Mike/W5JR]

Great to hear/work you from the mobile while I'm in TX. Will likely head back for GA tomorrow. If I get out of TX before the end of the contest, I'll switch to a club call for Louisiana, and something else if we get to MS as well.  

tnx
Mike

On Apr 27, 2013, at 10:47 PM, John T Laney III <k4bai at att.net> wrote:

> Hello all:  In for the night.  Start again at 8 AM and go until 6 PM tomorrow.  Been a lot of fun with Jerry, K5YAA.  Thanks for QSOs from K1ZZI, N4PN, K4AMA, W4NZ, N4JF, ND4V, W5JR/m (in TX) and others.  Band conditions were pretty poor at the start at 17Z today, but picked up.  20M has been the workhorse.  We tried 40 during the day, but got no calls at all.  15M has been fair to Europe and parts of the US.  We have worked most of the US and Canada on 20 plus a lot of Europe, Caribbean, northern South America and KH6LC.  On 40, we have worked from coast to coast US and Canada, plus a lot of Europe as far as UA3AGW and some Caribbean.  We have gone to SSB on most requests and have called CQ there a lot.  We have a number of QSOs on 20M SSB including OE3K and HI3TT, but only KU8E on 40 Phone.  No one has asked for ten Meters and we have been too busy to go fishing there.  Our goal of 3000 QSOs seems unlikely as we have about 1240 QSOs now.  We hope for more than that tomorrow.  We will be mostly on interstates tomrrow.  We will start in Ocala and go south on I75 to near Tampa, on I-4 to I-95 near the east coast and back up to I-10 at Jax and hope to end up up in or near Talahassee where my car should be waiting.
> 
> We have had some equipment issues and both of us are having problems with the logging program.  Jerry probably won't use this logging program again.  The T/R relay in the AL811H has become intermittent on return to receive and sometimes we don't have a receive antenna when we are listening.  So, please forgive us.  With power line noise and road noise, it has been hard to pull out the weaker signals with an antenna connected to the K3.  The T/R switch settled down and we had no problems with it the last hour or so, so maybe it will be OK tomorrow.
> 
> Hope all of you can join in the FQP fun tomorrow.  73, John, K4BAI.
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