Michigan QSO Party
Call: K8MQP
Operator(s): K8CC, KD8EGH, KD8EGJ, KE8OC, KK8I, KN8S, W8MJ, WD8S
Station: KN8S
Class: Mobile Multi-Op HP
QTH: CHEB
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 202 159
40: 349 317
20: 129 555
15: 1 1
10: 1 2
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Total: 682 1034 CW Mults = 109 Ph Mults = 112 Total Score = 529,958
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
This was our third trip up north to KN8S's QTH in Cheboygan County for MiQP.
While we tried to take maximum use of the radio equipment John has on site, it
took a three fully loaded vehicles and two portable towers mounted on surplus
boat trailers to pull off this operation.
Equipment:
40 CW: Drake C-Line, MLA-2500, 40M dipole at 50'
40 PH: Ten-Tec Corsair, AL-1200, 40M dipole at 50'
20 CW/PH: FT-1000MP, Titan, 3L yagi at 60'
80/15/10 CW/PH: IC-756Pro3, AL-1200, 80M dipole @ 60', 3L 15 @ 50', 3L 10 @
58'
For pictures of the portable towers, check out:
http://home.comcast.net/~k8cc/Tower_Trailer.htm
Some band-by-band comments:
80M: Started there on SSB as early as 1800Z with decent activity and rates.
With 40M stinko again this year, this band provided most of our in-state
mults.
40M: Our "back to the future" band. We wanted to have rigs on CW and SSB
simultaneously, and every modern rig we tried produced phase noise across the
band any time it was in transmit, so it was back to "trailing edge" technology
rigs. The C-Line was used in a similar role in 2006, but the Corsair was
retrieved from WD8S's standby closet only a week before MiQP. We learned at
lot about cleaning dirty control pots and bandswitch contacts during the week
before MiQP.
20M: A surprising bottomless pit of QSOs, at least on SSB. Many, many 2x3
callsigns without phonetics were seemingly a clue. Like last year, we made at
least one QSO on 20M SSB every hour of the contest. Activity was much lower on
CW, but we still only missed two hours with CW QSOs.
15M/10M: Unfortunately, a waste of time despite publicizing the recommended
activity times. And pretty much a waste of the 2nd portable tower :-(
For the most part, the operating team was a crew of friends from the Mad River
Radio Club. But we also had the addition of two relatively new hams - Jerry,
KD8EGH and his son Scott, KD8EGJ. Both were very helpful in setting up the
station, and Jerry jumped right into the operating chair after watching W8MJ go
at it for a while.
Funniest moment of the weekend occurred after we got the 60' tower with the 3L
20 up in the air and found out it was too close to a nearby tree, and couldn't
be rotated. What to do? As any foolhardy ham would do, we pulled up the
stabilizing outriggers and backed the trailer away from the tree five feet.
It's not often that you get to watch a 60' tall mobile antenna in motion :-)
QSO rates:
80 80 40 40 20 20 15 15 10 10
UTC CW PH CW PH CW PH CW PH CW PH rate total
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16Z 2 2 70 29 1 116 0 0 0 1 221 221
17Z 0 27 44 36 46 38 1 1 1 1 195 416
18Z 18 7 26 13 37 1 0 0 0 0 102 518
19Z 5 18 17 23 0 85 0 0 0 0 148 666
20Z 17 19 29 43 14 34 0 0 0 0 156 822
21Z 12 25 24 37 18 60 0 0 0 0 176 998
22Z 9 29 26 25 0 76 0 0 0 0 165 1163
23Z 23 15 31 26 5 38 0 0 0 0 138 1301
00Z 26 13 23 13 4 27 0 0 0 0 106 1407
01Z 42 0 22 24 1 35 0 0 0 0 124 1531
02Z 21 3 22 43 1 23 0 0 0 0 113 1644
03Z 27 1 15 5 2 22 0 0 0 0 72 1716
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tot 202 159 349 317 129 555 1 1 1 2 ---- 1716
The team would like to thank KN8S and wife Linda for their outstanding
hospitality for the weekend. Our thanks also go to the wives of KE8OC and
KD8EGH who contributed mightily to the cuisine we consumed this weekend.
Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. We thought activity this weekend was
terrific!
73,
Dave/K8CC
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