Way to go John...
--- "John T. Laney III" <k4bai at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Georgia QSO Party
>
> Call: K4BAI/M
> Operator(s): K4BAI
> Station: KO4RR/M
>
> Class: RoverCW LP
> QTH: GA
> Operating Time (hrs): 10.25
>
> Summary:
> Band CW Qs Ph Qs
> --------------------
> 80: 0 0
> 40: 529 0
> 20: 313 0
> 15: 1 0
> 10: 0 0
> --------------------
> Total: 843 0 CW Mults = 48 Ph Mults = 0 Total Score = 80,928
>
> Club: South East Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> Alinco DX70 or DX77, 100 watts output, Outbacker mobile antenna.
> Thanks to
> KO4RR for the use of his diesel VW Jetta with mobile rig and antenna
> installed.
> Thanks also to KU8E for his hard work in developing a route that
> would cover as
> many counties not already projected to be covered by other Rovers. I
> have a MFJ
> mobile antenna tuner and it was invaluable to get the antenna
> properly tuned on
> the CW bands. I didn't have it properly tuned in the early part of
> the contest
> and found it almost impossible to make contacts on 40M. After a QSY
> to work
> N6MU on 15M, I retuned it and it worked much better on 40M afterward.
> Before
> starting out for the second day on Sunday, I also tuned the antenna
> tuner for
> 20M and think it helped. However, conditions, especially for Europe,
> seemed
> much better Saturday than Sunday. 40M was good to Europe both days.
> We had a
> lot of QRN on Saturday from a line of storms that moved through
> Saturday. It
> was pouring rain when I borrowed the car from KO4RR about two hours
> before the
> QSO Party started. Sunday, it was quieter. Skip was relatively long
> on 20M,
> with only a few QSOs as near as Ohio and Illinois (and one with K4TD
> in AL), but
> generally the closer in stations weren't coming through. To a great
> extent,
> this was true on 40M also. Very few QSOs were possible with other GA
> stations
> and AL too even during the middle of the day. It seemed we were
> always just
> skipping over each other. The skip zone lengthened out at night, but
> didn't
> seem to get much beyond the fourth call area. 20M seemed to close
> about 02Z
> Saturday night, but I did make a successful QSO to 20 with N6MU at
> 0458Z. I
> guess activity just dropped off. 20M seemed to drop out much earlier
> Sunday
> night.
>
> This was my first Rover operation in several years without a driver
> (and
> sometimes another operator). I disciplined myself to put safety
> first by
> turning the radio off while driving between counties. In the past, I
> have
> operated while in motion, but that is very difficult. I logged on
> paper and
> will have to type all the QSOs into a Cabrillo file for logchecking.
> I made no
> attempt to hook up the computer in the car this year as I doubted my
> ability to
> handle all that alone in the car. I spent about 15 minutes less than
> half of
> the contest period driving and the rest was in opeation while
> stopped. I tried
> to find a vacant parking lot or other area well off the road for a
> safe place to
> operate. A lot of church parking lots, public buildings, and some
> usused
> driveways were found. In two counties, the first places found had
> high power
> line noise and I moved to a second, near-by, location.
>
> Here is the breakdown by county:
>
> County QSO Pts Mult Score Time 15M 20M 40M
> MUSCogee 26 52 14 728 0:27 0 12 14
> CHATtahoochee 10 20 9 180 0:19 0 9 1
> STeWarT 19 38 10 380 0:14 0 19 0
> QUITman 18 36 9 324 0:10 0 18 0
> RANDolph 28 56 13 728 0:24 0 25 3
> TERRell 16 32 9 299 0:25 0 8 8
> LEE 39 78 18 1,404 0:35 1 9 29
> SUMTer 68 136 28 3,808 0:37 0 6 62
> SCHLey 47 94 24 2,256 0:27 0 0 47
> MARIon 30 60 17 1,020 0:13 0 0 30
> TAYLor 56 112 25 2,800 0:46 0 14 42
> TaLBoT 22 44 16 704 0:17 0 0 22
> PEACh 41 82 24 1,968 0:29 0 22 19
> CRAWford 51 102 28 2,856 0:37 0 29 22
> MoNROe 58 116 29 3,364 0:37 0 42 16
> UPSOn 34 68 22 1,496 0:32 0 26 8
> LAMAr 43 86 20 1,720 0:37 0 27 16
> PIKE 46 92 24 2,208 0:31 0 20 26
> SPALding 36 72 23 1,656 0:19 0 16 20
> FAYEtte 26 52 14 728 0:19 0 3 23
> COWEta 45 90 24 2,160 0:28 0 5 40
> MERIwether 42 84 23 1,932 0:29 0 3 39
> HARRis 42 84 23 1,932 0:23 0 0 42
> ALL 23 843 1686 48 80,928 10:15 1 313 529
>
> US state mults missed: RI, HI, NV, UT, OR, AK, ND. VE province
> mults worked:
>
> VE1, VE9, VE2, VE3, VE7.
>
> Many thanks for the QSOs and support for the GQP. Hope to see you in
> the
> Alabama QSO Party at the end of the month and next year in the 2007
> GQP.
>
> QSLs will be answered the day after receipt. You may send your
> requests for
> W4AN QSLs in the same envelope. The SECC memorial club call, W4AN,
> was operated
> by Jeff, KU8E, from Harris County. Special thanks to the DX stations
> who
> participated, including RK2FWA, UA3AGW, LZ4UU, DK2OY, DL3GA, DL8MLD,
> OK2ZU,
> OK1AOV, OK1ACF, OK1FED, HA7UG, HA9SU, PA3ARM, LY3BA, DL6KVA, CU2JT,
> OK1FA, and
> VP2E.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI.
>
>
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>
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