[SECC] Fwd: AlQP W4AN/M Mobile Multi-OpCW LP

[Jeff Clarke]

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Subject: 	AlQP W4AN/M Mobile Multi-OpCW LP
Date: 	Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:09:00 +0000
From: 	webform at b4h.net
Reply-To: 	ku8e at ku8e.com
To: 	3830 at contesting.com, ku8e at ku8e.com



Alabama QSO Party - 2019

Call: W4AN/M
Operator(s): K4BAI KU8E
Station: W4AN/M

Class: Mobile Multi-OpCW LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 12

Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 80: 72 40: 304 20: 241 15: 10: --------------------
Total: 617 0 CW Mults = 54 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 66,636

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

We met up with both AB4B and W4NZ at the Huntsville Hamfest this year 
and both
mentioned they needed help activating counties in the Tennessee and 
Alabama QSO
Parties. So John (K4BAI) and I took two extra rover trips this year.
We ended up activating 24 Alabama counties. We had planned a few more 
counties
but we started getting intermittent high SWR during the last couple hours on
both of our mobile antennas and had to stop several times to 
troubleshoot that.
That put us behind and we were 1 1/2 hours away from home when the contest
ended.

The antenna setup is two magnet mounts (3 magnets on the antenna mount) 
on the
trunk of John's Toyota Avalon. I have a nice ground that goes to the 
bracket for
the muffler. We used Hustler 80 and 40 meter resonators and a 15 meter 
resonator
on 20 meters with the DX Engineering top hat. So we were able to QSY quickly
between two bands. The station is setup in the backseat of the car on and
operating table I built. We used a Kenwood TS-590SG with a Winkeyer. I 
ran an
audio cable from the radio to the audio input of the car radio so the driver
could listen when driving.

I think the antenna problem we had was cause by the wind load on the 
mobile mast
which caused it to partially unscrew from the bolt on the mobile mount. That
caused a bad connection. It was strange because when I stopped to look 
at it the
SWR went back to normal but when we got going again the problem 
returned. The
problem with the 2nd mount is probably because it's a MFJ that developed an
intermittent connection. Someday I will get all these problems we have 
had in
the past fixed. At least I solved the RF problem with the radio/computer 
that
has plagued us for years on 40 meters. Sometimes it's hard to tackle these
issues with the temporary setup we use.

John and I had fun despite our visit from Murphy. We had some unusually 
short
skip on 20 meters that helped our QSO totals on that band. We were also 
glad to
give John's old high school classmate W6OAT his last county in Alabama!

CU in the next one.

Jeff KU8E



RoverLocation Tot Accum AUTA 14 14 14 BARB 21 21 35 BLOU 9 9 44 BULL 29 
29 73 CHIL 40 40 113 CHOU 38 38 151 CKEE 31 31 182 CLAY 13 13 195 CLEB 
19 19 214 CULM 24 24 238 DKLB 38 38 276 ELMO 5 5 281 ETOW 42 42 323 JEFF 
40 40 363 JKSN 27 27 390 LIME 10 10 400 MACO 38 38 438 MDSN 30 30 468 
MGMY 16 16 484 MORG 40 40 524 MRSH 32 32 556 RAND 24 24 580 RSSL 14 14 
594 SHEL 23 23 617 Total 617 617 617
QSO Leaders

K9OM 32
K1TO 29 K0PC 19
K4BSK 19 K3WJV 18 WB9HFK 13
K5UV 17
NC4H 16
KM4HI 14 DL3DXX 13
W6OAT 13 K4BYN 12
W4EE 12


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