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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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