[WIQPmail] Mobile: low band phone question

[Michael Johnson]

Jon,

Good question.  I ran 80 CW last year and was totally impressed with the
results even though I was running a really high SWR and maybe 40 watts of
power.    Looking at last year's mobile results, there was activity by
mobile phone ops.  This year the plan is try 80 phone for multipliers.
Time to do some S&P for county mult's.  It is well worth it when you've got
another 5 minutes in a county and you've kind of run through the list of
workable stations.

We are definitely going to do 80 much earlier than last year.  20 was kind
of disappointing last year.  Spent a lot of time without getting many
contacts.

As for the MNQP, I did make a number of SSB Q's on 80.  I wasn't running
mobile, but late in the day, 40 meters was pretty much done and I ran the
80 CW stations so phone was my last option.  It worked well.

Propagation looks like it will be similar to last year.  It would be nice
to get 20 and 40 back to normal, but it doesn't look like that will be the
case this year.

MJ, WO9B


On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:16 PM Rich Westerberg via WIQP-Mail <
wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:

> There was a lot of activity on 75M phone last year as I remember.  Much
> more than in MNQP.
>
> Rich
> N0HJZ
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:13 PM Jon Platt via WIQP-Mail <
> wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all.
>>
>> As a single-op unassisted mobile (no driver), sometimes I will run 20m
>> phone while driving to my next county.  Phone Q's made while driving are
>> recorded on a voice recorder and then transcribed into my log after the
>> contest.  However, with the exception of the early afternoon hours, 20m
>> phone does not look to be very productive given where we are with sun
>> spots.  My perception is backed by looking at the data provided in the last
>> few WiQP result articles.  So, I am looking to learn from other WiQP mobiles.
>> What has been your success in running 40m and/or 75m phone from your
>> mobile during the WiQP?   Yes, I know that phone Q's are 1 point vs 2 for
>> CW, but lets forget that for now.  Low mobile antenna efficiencies on 40
>> and 75m makes me wonder if its worth the effort & time.   After say 40 and
>> 80m CW, is 75m mobile the place to be?   Comments?
>>
>> 73, Jon
>> W0ZQ/m
>>
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