Wowee Jim and George - what a score! You guys make the most of the
conditions and the FB Engineering the Geo did on the mobile setup- well
done Gents.
And great job hitting all those counties for those deserving seekers of
County gold :-)
Congrats on a kick-butt effort.
vy 73,
Chris, NX4N
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 9:03 AM, <webform@b4h.net> wrote:
> Florida QSO Party
>
> Call: K4KG/M
> Operator(s): K5KG VE7ZO
> Station: K4KG
>
> Class: Multi-Op MobileMixed LP
> QTH: Florida
> Operating Time (hrs): 20
>
> Summary:
> Band CW Qs Ph Qs
> --------------------
> 40: 537 73
> 20: 1793 271
> 15:
> 10:
> --------------------
> Total: 2330 344 CW Mults = 77 Ph Mults = 63 Total Score = 1,394,120
>
> Club: Florida Contest Group
>
> Comments:
>
> This was the 15th year George and I entered in the M/S low powered mobile
> category and as you would expect (or hope), it gets a little easier each
> time
> from the perspective of operating the station and mastering an effective
> route
> through the back woods of the Florida counties.
>
> Geo’s operating position in the back seat of his 2012 Highlander is
> equipped
> with a K3 with antenna positions for 4 Ham Sticks. The 10 M antenna was
> not
> used this time but with easily switchable antennas on 40SSB and 40CW, our
> 40M
> SSB score was improved over previous efforts. First QSO on Sunday morning
> was
> with VK2SR on 40 phone. This was only the 2nd VK we have worked mobile
> in the
> FQP contest, both on phone. We have converted to N1MM+ for the FQP as
> there is
> a FQP contest specific module for mobiles that makes scoring and moving
> multipliers from CW to phone without manual check logging. N1MM+ also has
> the
> ROVERQTH feature that makes changing counties so simple a couple of cave
> men can
> do it!
>
> Many out of state competitors find getting a sweep on SSB more difficult
> so we
> accommodate by switching routinely to a phone frequency. Also, to
> improve our
> multiplier count we request CW stations to move to SSB and thanks to the
> many
> stations who were kind enough to dig out a microphone to give us a one
> time new
> state or country. Some competitors think that this will change the
> category of
> their CW-only log submission but if entered as CW-only, then the SSB QSO
> becomes
> a check log. WJ9B and WA1Z were two examples of operators who had to
> search for
> a mike to help out the deserving.
>
> Our county activation route maximizes the number of counties during the
> contest
> period but in doing so, we end up spending a looonnng time in some
> counties and
> only brief time in others. For example, a road closure in OSC county
> added 30
> minutes to our route resulting in only 5 minutes or so in NAS and DUV at
> the end
> of Saturday. Otherwise, weather was great, roads were generally in good
> shape
> and not too busy. We made it to 51 of the schedule 52 counties, coming
> in late
> on Sunday we missed SAR, our home base on Siesta Key.
>
> Conditions were relatively good on 20M into NA but generally went long
> with New
> England and the West Coast being workable easily on both days. Very few
> W4’s
> were worked, especially on Sunday. VE3’s were booming, thanks again to CCO
> for making the effort to have such a good representation. Conditions to
> EU
> were not good and only thanks to the ongoing efforts of LY5W and I4VEQ
> were we
> aware the band was open at all. We did not work any stations on 15M or
> 10M for
> the first time ever.
>
> Stations that were in log many times on CW and phone include K0RC, K0HC,
> W8MJ,
> NN3W, K9NW, W7RN, W7SE, I4VEQ, WA3HAE, N8II, VE3KZ, VA3DF, HC2AO and
> others.
> Other notable CW only were LY5W, K9CT, VE3DZ, K9CW.
>
> Even though conditions were not the best, activity levels made this one of
> the
> best FQP’s and our second highest score. Congratulations to NX4N and the
> FQP
> contest committee for publicizing the contest and to our fellow mobilers
> for
> making this a fun event for out-of-staters.
>
> CU next year,
>
> Jim VE7ZO,
>
> Team K4KG/m
>
>
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