Indiana QSO Party - 2023
Call: K9WX
Operator(s): K9WX
Station: K9WX
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: IN
Operating Time (hrs): 7
OpMode: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 80 2
40: 129 37
20: 117 31
15: 4
10:
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Total: 330 70 CW Mults = 70 Ph Mults = 34 Total Score = 75,920
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
I no longer have my 2011 Nissan Rogue that served so well as an HF mobile. So,
2023 was planned as a portable operation from a rare county. That morphed into
a full time operation from home. Which morphed into a part time operation from
home. So the contest became more of an easy jog rather than a full-out sprint,
and not a bad way to spend a day.
The bands were dead the first half of the contest, as if every QSO partner was
operating QRP. Mid-contest they started to open up and by the end of the contest
they were pretty decent. Until the storms moved in, making 80 meters a steep
challenge I ended up with more breaks than I had planned and was forced to
unplug for the last hour of the contest. N1MM says I operated 7 of the 12
contest hours.
Every year I look at my INQP score and say, "I should have spent more time
on phone." I knew that going into this one. Yet this year I had only 70
phone QSOs, although half of those were mults, so I had quality if not quantity.
Nevertheless, next year, I need to spend more time on phone.
Thanks to the mobile, portable and rover stations. You activate a lot of
counties that would not otherwise be available as mults.
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