Tennessee QSO Party
Call: KU8E/M
Operator(s): KU8E
Station: KU8E/M
Class: Mobile LP
QTH: TN
Operating Time (hrs): 7
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
6:
2:
222:
432:
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Total: 192 44 Mults = 162 Total Score = 20,270
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
County CW SSB Mults Total Points
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Bradley 17 18 22 1622
Polk 25 10 24 2300
McMinn 0 6 6 216
Monroe 25 1 23 2785
Blount 48 5 37 6272
Loudon 41 1 25 3625
Roane 36 3 25 3450
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Totals 192 44 162 20270
Equipment : IC706MKIIG , Hustler mobile whips 20/15, HamStick clone for
40
I think I figured my score wrong because I got an email from W9WI when
I emailed my log that he figured my score to be 46,924. Not sure how he
came up with that ??? It's funny when I got home I make a comment to my
my wife thanking her for letting me go out rovering and she says " Oh
no problem ... if you want to go out and do Alabama too you can" (half
kiddingly?) I then informed here the AL QSO was 2 weekends away !!!
Maybe she has been reading my QST's ??? HI !! Anyway how about it you
AL guys... are you going to have enough activity to make it worth while
for me to go rovering ????
73's Jeff KU8E
--- John Laney <k4bai@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> Hope everyone made some contest contacts last weekend. The WAE SSB
> Contest was fun with a lot of activity and some fairly rare European
> stations QRV: OY9JD, JW0HR, a SV9, several LX stations, 4U1VIC
> (counts
> as a mult in WAE). Ten meters had its best openings that I have
> heard
> since May. Activity during the contest resulted incidentally also in
> SSB QSOs with a 3DA0 and a S79. 40M sounded good and there was a lot
> of
> calling going on in the US band. I tried to work several stations
> including OH0PM, but none could hear me with my low dipole.
>
> 559 QSOs on 10, 15 and 20 (246, 191, and 122 respectively), 100 mults
> (33, 36 and 31) and a score of 223,600. Don't forget that there is a
> worldwide club compeition in the three WAE Contests (CW, SSB, and
> RTTY),
> so put South East Contest Club on your log.
>
> The Tenn QSO Party ran during the latter part of WAE and for an hour
> afterward. WAE was getting slow, so I took a look at TQP. Think
> activity was higher this year and more mobiles were running from
> county
> to county including our own Jeff, KU8E. (Give us a report, Jeff.)
> Also, K4LTA, NY4N, KM4FO, and a KE4T station on 40 SSB were mobile in
> various counties. I started the weekend needing 4 counties bunched
> together and got NY4N in three of them. May have missed him from the
> fourth one...not sure. There were also a fair number of Tenn fixed
> stations active, including many familiar calls and one not so
> familiar
> call of an old friend WW4R (formerly K4WX, N4ZZ, K4PUZ).
> Total of 55 CW QSOs and 26 SSB QSOs in 37 counties. Could work even
> the
> mobiles on 20, 15 and 10 CW and the fixed stations on 20 and 15 SSB.
> Of
> course, could work any station in Tenn on 40 and fixed stations on
> 80.
> Didn't detect that any of the mobiles tried 80. Had a report that
> they
> had a lot of bad weather and storms during the TQP, so QRN may have
> been
> real high for them. It was fairly bad here, but not so as to prevent
> working any Tenn station that I knew was active. They have a funny
> rule
> that an additional multiplier may be counted for working five QSOs in
> a
> county, but that applies only to Tenn stations, not out of state
> stations. NA4K didn't know about that distinction and he encouraged
> me
> to QSY from band to band and mode to mode with him for additional
> mults
> that I can't count as it turns out. Glad to have the QSOs anyway. I
> did tell him I would listen for him on 160 in the last hour, but the
> QRN
> was bad and I didn't try to get my 80M antenna to load on 160 this
> time. However, 160 meters is often a very good band for another QSO
> Party coming up next month--the Pa. QSO Party. When the GQP was in
> May
> years ago, I always made a number of QSOs on 160 CW, but in the Pa
> QSO
> Party there is always a lot of activity even on 160 SSB.
>
> This weekend there is something for everybody.
>
> Scandinavia Activity Contest (CW) (SAC) 12Z (8 AM EDT) Sat to same
> time
> Sunday. SSB is the next weekend. Send RST and Serial Nr. Mults are
> Scandinavian country call areas. We may work only Scandinavian
> countries stations. Having had a real good time in Finland in July
> for
> WRTC, I am looking forward to giving out some QSOs to the SAC gang.
>
> Washington Salmon Run (like Washington State QSO Party). 16Z Sat
> through 07Z Sunday and 16Z through 24 Z Sunday. Send RST and State.
> Mults are Wash counties. Freq: 1850, 3550, 7045, 14050, 21050,
> 18050,
> 50095 CW and 1850, 3925, 7260, 14280, 21380, 28380 and 50130 SSB.
> These
> guys always have lot of activity and give out nice prizes. I usually
> get a can of smoked salmon as a prize. If ten meters is open to
> Washington, CQing on or near 28380 can bring in a lot of QSOs from
> Washington stations whether or not they are in the contest. They are
> planning a lot of activity and promise all but one of the counties
> will
> be QRV with a lot of mobile activity.
>
> A new one is the Collegiate QSO Party. Runs from 12Z Sat to 04Z
> Sunday. There is a category for non-Collegiate stations, but awards
> may
> have to be paid for if awarded. The collegiate category in SS has
> not
> brought out a lot of activity, but it would be good to encourage
> these
> mostly younger contest ops if they actually get on and call for
> contacts. We send serial number and name (like "John") and they send
> serial number and name of their college or an abbreviation for it.
>
> There are two QRP events.
>
> QRP Afield runs 15Z to 03Z Sat/Sun. this is a 12 hour period, but
> you
> can count only six of them. Any six continuous hours of the 12. You
> can operate the whole period and then pick the period to count. Sent
> RS/RST and state and power. Stations who are NE-QRP club members
> send
> RS/RST, SPC, and their club number.
>
> QRP Homebrewer Sprint runs Sunday evening 00 to 04Z (Monday UCT).
> Exchange is RST + SPC + output power. Usual CW or PSK31 frequencies.
>
> CW and PSK31 are considered separate bands. You don't have to have
> anything homebrew to participate, but the points are higher if you
> have
> homebrew equip.
>
> The websites for the Washington Salmon Run and the Collegiate QSO
> Party
> have forms available if you want to download them.
>
> NA will cover SAC and Salmon Run. TR and Writelog cover SAC for
> sure,
> maybe some of the others. I think you can use the QRPARCI files in
> NA
> for the Homebrew Sprint.
>
> Hope everyone has a nice weekend. We have had a lot of rain and
> pinestraw and leaves down in the yard will require some yardwork this
> weekend.
>
> Beam is still not rotating properly, but is stuck on Europe for the
> moment. Good for SAC. Not so good for Salmon Run or the QRP
> contests.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI.
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