Alabama QSO Party
Call: KC4HW
Operator(s): KC4HW
Station: KC4HW
Class: Mobile Multi-OpMixed LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 220
20: 290 6
15:
10:
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Total: 517 6 CW Mults = 41 Ph Mults = 6 Total Score = 56,160
Club: Wiregrass ARC, Dothan, AL
Comments:
Long Version:
A very good friend Arnie/W4EIP came up Thursday. He drove 449.6 miles just to
get to our home in Slocomb. Well it was great to have him and we visited to
late on Thursday. Friday morning we went to the local market and had some
world famous Slocomb Biscuit and Gravy, it is kind of an inside joke, but Arnie
enjoyed it. Friday noon we met with about 4 or 5 other hams for lunch-I tell
you it is hard to get 6 or 7 Hams in Dothan together at one time, so this was
treat.
Friday afternoon we worked on getting an operating table made up that Arnie
would be comfortable with. It had to accommodate Arnie, the laptop, a regular
keyboard and mouse. Collectively we came up with a pretty good design, except
with the mouse...as we found everytime the blame thing kept flying off the top
of the operating position while we were operating.
I had acquired a second antenna the Yaesu ATAS-100. Had just had it on a
temporary coax and the antenna was fine. I changed it out for a more permanent
installation. Well the new coax was problemmatic. Anyway, a pretty good
T-strom came up, plus it was hotter than "Blue Blazes" so Saturday morning I
was up early and replaced the coax on the ATAS100, but it would not move up or
down. So a quick check found that one of the DC connections was intermittent.
Always something! That made it useable.
So we got loaded up because we had about 2 hour drive to get to our starting
point. K0DEQ had ask if I could work him as I went throught ESCA because he
need that county and one more to complete all the counties in Alabama. I
agreed, so we call on the coordinate frequency at 9:59AM and he was right there
and the signal was pretty good--so I thought that 40m was pretty good.
We actually started in ESCS for just a few contacts before we went into CONE.
Here is what we did:
ESCA
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