Iowa QSO Party
Call: K0PC
Operator(s): K0PC
Station: K0PC
Class: SO Mobile LP
QTH: IA
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 360
20: 272
15: 5
10: 1
6:
2:
222:
432:
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Total: 638 0 Mults = 67 Total Score = 85,492
Club: Minnesota Wireless Association
Comments:
A beautiful day for a drive around Iowa, 55 degrees and sunny. We moved to
northeast IA this year with a new route and planned on 20 counties. We managed
to squeeze in eight hectic minutes in a 21st county (KOS) at the end.
Absolutely no equipment issues so we must be living right.
The score this year is about 4% better than last year. We had 45 fewer QSOs but
8 more mults this year. There are 154 unique calls in the log, a nice turnout.
The heavy hitters include:
20 - N6MU, W4UCZ
19 - WÃ?EAR
18 - NN9K
17 - KV1E, W4IHI
14 - KÃ?HNC, W9LHG
13 - K9EN
12 - KÃ?MPH, KIÃ?I, WÃ?ZQ, WA9LT
11 - KC7YE, LY5A, N9YPN, WÃ?EAR, WÃ?GXQ
I have been asked by the Iowa State Patrol to turn over my log as evidence
in a speeding case against Jon WÃ?ZQ. He called me four times in four minutes
from four different counties. I think Jon set a new land speed record for a
gravel road. Jon was a big reason my mults were up this year.
We have used APRS every year in Iowa but the coverage has been pretty sparse.
This year I didn't use a 2M radio for APRS, I used a program on the laptop
that
fed our position to an APRS internet server through a cell phone connection.
It worked fantastic and covered every mile of our route. I wasn't sure how
my cell phone data connection would hold up out in the rural areas but it was
fine. This will be a feature of all my future QSO Party runs.
Thanks to the Ottumwa ARC for sponsoring the IA QSO Party again this year.
73,
Pat KÃ?PC & John W9DND
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