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Subject: IL QSO Party
From: blckhole@ripco.com (Keith Morehouse - WB9TIY)
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 11:11:42 -0500
1996 IL QSO PARTY
WB9TIY/mobile (the last contest with that call ???)
Club affiliation: SOCIETY OF MIDWEST CONTESTERS

CW QSO points   554
SSB QSO points  4
State/VE mults  34
County mults    17
"8 QSO" mults   4
DXCC mults      2
Total mults     57
Bonus points    1800

Final Score     33,378


Love that complex scoring system.
Activated 9 counties in NW and N central part of the state.
Great weather for mobiling - watch out for those big 'ol JD combines !
200+ miles - 150 on gravel roads. 

My Land Rover mobile vehicle really loves 65 MPH blasts down those
straight,
and miles long, deep gravel back roads.  Used an IC706 and High Sierra
HS1000
which really kicks butt for a mobile antenna.  Being a die-hard member
of the 
No Code Extra team, and not really getting into a CW test for quite a
while, 
it was pretty dicey for the first hour or so.  After that, it got easier
!  
Just set the keyer at 30 and smoke 'em up.

Not too much luck working those IL counties except on 80 after dark. 
Worked 
fellow SMC'er N9JF a bunch and must have worked K4XU from K0RF's about
25 times !

First time mobiling in a contest - gotta get ready to kick some
cheese-butt 
in the WI QSO party next year !!

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