Michigan QSO Party
Call: K8MM
Operator(s): K8MM
Station: K8MM
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GENE
Operating Time (hrs): 1.5
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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80: 63 5
40: 32 1
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 95 6 CW Mults = 39 Ph Mults = 5 Total Score = 8,624
Club: Thumb Area Contesters
Comments:
Back home in GENE.......
I went off the air in TUSC county at 01:30z and packed up and headed home to
GENE county. After a quick snack and chat with the XYL I went down into the
shack and put the first station in the log at 02:40z. Since I hadn't heard any
GENE mults on CW earlier in the day I decided to make a concentrated effort to
give the mult out on CW and try to make at least 100 q's in the short amount of
time I had left.
I did my usual quick S&P sweep of the CW band and then found a place to
call CQ. At 02:45 I hit the dx cluster as fresh meat and had a nice 30 minute
run before the rate slowed and it was time to go to 40 CW. On 40 I worked a
couple of stations and then was called by Uli and we worked and qsy'ed to SSB
and worked again then I went right back to cw and was spotted on the dx
cluster. I had another nice run that lasted for 15 minutes of mostly out of
state stations because of the 'long' band conditions.
A quick move to 80M SSB only netted a few Q's so back down to CW I went. By
this time it 02:45z and I was still 15 Q's short of my 100 QSO goal. I pushed
hard and kept swapping between 40 and 80 CW and SSB and at 03:57:30 I was still
4 Q's short of my goal. I decided to go back to 40M CW and CQ hoping for some
more guys to put in the log. As luck would have it, my first CQ was answered by
a K0 and then followed by a mini run of four more out of state stations and I
had reached 101 Q's. I still had 30 seconds left to spare but nobody else
called in.
I drove 102 miles and I had a total of three hours of set-up, tear-down and
transit time during the contest, which isn't too bad for two counties with
field day style antennas and a home station.
Thanks for all the qso's and thanks to all the in state, out of state and DX
stations that make this contest a lot of fun to operate.
73,
Ian - K8MAD/SANI, K8MAD/TUSC, and K8MM
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