[WIQPmail] AF8A Wisconsin QSO Party SOLP

[Gary Mikitin, AF8A]

This is generally one of my favorite parties...perhaps because I've 
visited the state a few times on business and a few more for pleasure.  
And, the compact, 7 hour format works well.

Conditions were suboptimal - the QSO count was almost exactly 50% of 
last year.  Yet, I have to give everyone credit for good, make that 
great ears - my 80m antenna was a 7 foot tall Hamstick, nearly ground 
mounted with a half dozen radials + snow.  On that Rube Goldberg setup I 
managed to make 41 Q's, 18 with mobiles!

Band    QSOs    Counties

40 SSB     7       1

40 CW     43      33

3.5 CW    41      17

Total     91      51


Plenty of mobiles were workable from NE Ohio.  I enjoyed snooping on the 
routes via the contest APRS page.  Nice work, whoever built it.

K0PC    11 QSOs, 11 Counties

K8IR    11 QSOS, 9 counties

W0ZQ    6 QSOs, 6 counties

NE9U    3 QSOS, 3 counties

WI9WI 3 QSOS, 3 counties


CU in 2019!